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?
006:063 It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no
benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit
and are Life.
006:064 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus
knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe,
and who it was that would betray Him.
006:065 So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come
to me unless it be granted him by the Father."
006:066 Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away,