Readings

John 6:35–51

³⁵Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
³⁶But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
³⁷All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
³⁸For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
⁴⁰For my Father’s will is 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.”
⁴¹At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
⁴²They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
⁴³“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
⁴⁴“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
⁴⁶No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
⁴⁷I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
⁴⁸I am the bread of life.
⁴⁹Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.
⁵⁰But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
⁵¹I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”