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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
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for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
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`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
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this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
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These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
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many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
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And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?
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if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?
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the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;