41. So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42. They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43. Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.
44. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
45. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
46. not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
48. I am the bread of life.
49. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”