Jesus, the Bread of Life — Part Two

³⁴They said to him, w“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵Jesus said to them, x“I am the bread of life; ywhoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ³⁷zAll that athe Father gives me will come to me, and bwhoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸For cI have come down from heaven, not to do dmy own will but dthe will of him ewho sent me. ³⁹And fthis is the will of him who sent me, gthat I should lose nothing of hall that he has given me, but iraise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who jlooks on the Son and kbelieves in him lshould have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, m“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, n“Is not this Jesus, othe son of Joseph, whose father and mother pwe know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me qdraws him. And rI will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, s‘And they will all be ttaught by God.’ uEveryone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ⁴⁶vnot that anyone has seen the Father except whe who is from God; he xhas seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ywhoever believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸zI am the bread of life. ⁴⁹aYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and bthey died. ⁵⁰cThis is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it dand not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ethat came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ffor the life of the world is gmy flesh.”