they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"
006:026 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you
are searching for me not because you have seen miracles,
but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.
006:027 Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes,
but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--
that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you;
for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."
006:028 "What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things
that God requires?"
006:029 "This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--
that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."
006:030 "What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see
and become believers in you? What do you *do*?
006:031 Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written,
`He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'."
006:032 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that Moses
did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but my Father
is giving you the bread--the true bread--out of Heaven.
006:033 For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives
Life to the world."
006:034 "Sir," they said, "always give us that bread."
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.