Part 10

006:035 "I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.

006:036 But it is as I have said to you: you have seen me and yet you do not believe.

006:037 Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

006:038 For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

006:039 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

006:040 For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

006:041 Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

006:042 They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, `I have come down out of Heaven'?"

006:043 "Do not thus find fault among yourselves," replied Jesus;

006:044 "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

006:045 It stands written in the Prophets, `And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

006:046 No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.

006:047 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.

006:048 I am the bread of Life.

006:049 Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.

006:050 Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

006:051 I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

006:052 This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

006:053 "In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

006:054 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.

006:055 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

006:056 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him.

006:057 As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

006:058 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

006:059 Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum.

006:060 Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

006:061 But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them,

006:062 "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?