Jesus Declares, 'I Am the Bread of Life'

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Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

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But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

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Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

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For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

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And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

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For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

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They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”

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“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.

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“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

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not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

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Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

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I am the bread of life.

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Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

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This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.