John 6:41-71 ▼

41 At this, the Jews (people of praise) began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.

42 They were asking, “Is this not Jesus (YHWH saves), the son of Joseph (he will add), whose father {patera} and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves, Jesus (YHWH saves) replied.

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

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

46 not that anyone has seen the Father {Patera} except the One who is from God {Theou}; only He has seen the Father.

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

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your⁺ fathers {pateres} ate the manna in the wilderness (solitary place), yet they died.

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

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever \to the age/. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.

52 At this, the Jews (people of praise) began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?

53 So Jesus (YHWH saves) said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you⁺, unless you⁺ eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you⁺ have no life in you.

54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

57 Just as the living Father {Patēr} sent Me and I live because of the Father {Patera}, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers {pateres}, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever \to the age/.

59 Jesus said this while teaching {didaskōn} in the synagogue in Capernaum (village of comfort).

60 On hearing it, many of His disciples (pupils) said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?

61 Aware that His disciples (pupils) were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus (YHWH saves) asked them, “Does this offend you⁺?

62 Then what will happen if you⁺ see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

63 The Spirit {pneuma} gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words {rhēmata} I have spoken to you⁺ are spirit and they are life.

64 However, there are some of you⁺ who do not believe. (For Jesus (YHWH saves) had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)

65 Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you⁺ that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.

66 From that time on many of His disciples (pupils) turned back and no longer walked with Him.

67 So Jesus (YHWH saves) asked the Twelve, “Do you⁺ want to leave too?

68 Simon (hearing) Peter (rock) replied, “Lord {Kyrie}, to whom would we go? You have the words {rhēmata} of eternal life.

69 We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God [You are the Christ, the Son of the living God].

70 Jesus (YHWH saves) answered them, “Have I not chosen you⁺, the Twelve? Yet one of you⁺ is a devil {diabolos}!

71 He was speaking about Judas (praise), the son of Simon (hearing) Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.