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be the Son of Man's gift to
you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal." 006:028 "What are
we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God
requires?" 006:029 "This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that
God requires-- that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."
006:030 "What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see
and become believers in you? What do you *do*? 006:031 Our

forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written, `He gave them
bread out of Heaven to eat'." 006:032 "In most solemn truth I tell you,"
replied Jesus, "that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven,
but my Father is giving you the bread--the true bread--out of Heaven.
006:033 For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and
gives Life to the world." 006:034 "Sir," they said, "always give us that
bread." 006:035 "I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes
to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never
thirst. 006:036 But it is as I have said to you: you have seen me and yet
you do not believe. 006:037 Every one whom the Father gives me will
come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account
drive away. 006:038 For I have left Heaven and have come down to
earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent
me. 006:039 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He
has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last
day. 006:040 For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his
gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the
Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day." 006:041 Now the
Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the
bread which came down out of Heaven. 006:042 They kept asking, "Is
not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we
know? What does he mean by now saying, `I have come down out of
Heaven'?" 006:043 "Do not thus find fault among yourselves," replied
Jesus; 006:044 "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day. 006:045 It
stands written in the Prophets, `And they shall all of them be taught by
God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes
to me. 006:046 No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is
from God. He has seen the Father. 006:047 "In most solemn truth I tell
you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages. 006:048 I am the
bread of Life. 006:049 Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert,
and they died. 006:050 Here is the bread that comes down out of
Heaven that a man may eat it and not die. 006:051 I am the living bread
come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for
ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life
of the world." 006:052 This led to an angry debate among the Jews.
"How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?" 006:053

"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.
006:054 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the
Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day. 006:055 For my flesh is
true food, and my blood is true drink. 006:056 He who eats my flesh
and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union
with him. 006:057 As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live
because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.
006:058 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike
that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats
this bread shall live for ever." 006:059 Jesus said all this in the
synagogue while teaching at Capernaum. 006:060 Many therefore of
His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can
listen to such teaching?" 006:061 But, knowing in Himself that His
disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them, 006:062 "Does
this