Bible verses about "bread" | Moffatt

²⁶ As they were eating he took a loaf and after the blessing he broke it; then he gave it to the disciples saying, "Take and eat this, it means my body."

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.

¹⁷ (for many as we are, we are one Bread, one Body, since we all partake of the one Bread).

⁴ He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

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." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!" ⁷¹ (He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him — and he was one of the twelve.)

³² Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven — ³³ for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." ³⁴ "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." ³⁵ Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.