Moffatt(i)
45 In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.
47 Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died;
50 the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies.
51 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."
52 The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"
53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.
54 He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),
55 for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.
58 Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."
59 This he said as he taught in the synagogue at Capharnahum.
60 Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?"
61 Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed?
63 What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
64 And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;
65 that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father').
66 After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?"
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,
69 and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."