John 6:51-59

The Bread of Life: Eating His Flesh

John 6:51-59

The Bread of Life: Eating His Flesh

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`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live--to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
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The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?'
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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
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for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
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`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
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this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live--to the age.'
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These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • 1 John 5:12

    he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God--the life he hath not.
    from verse 53

  • Matthew 26:26

    And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;'
    from verse 53

  • Matthew 26:28

    for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out--to remission of sins;
    from verse 53

  • John 6:55

    for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
    from verse 53

  • Luke 22:19

    And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye--to remembrance of me.'
    from verse 51

  • John 6:47

    `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;
    from verse 53

  • John 15:4

    remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
    from verse 53

  • John 6:33

    for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
    from verse 51

  • John 6:26

    Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;
    from verse 53

  • John 6:27

    work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal-- even God.'
    from verse 53

  • John 3:3

    Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
    from verse 53

  • 1 John 3:24

    and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
    from verse 56
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