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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

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Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

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Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

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Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

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This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."

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He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum .

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On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"

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Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?

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What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!

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The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

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Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.

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He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."

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From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

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"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.

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Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

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Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"

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(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)