John 6:48-58

Riverside(i) 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that any one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh: I will give it for the life of the world." 52 The Jews disputed angrily with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 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 in you. 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I abide in him. 57 As the living Father sent me and I am living because of the Father, so he who eats me — he will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not such as your fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."