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The next day the people who were standing on the other side of the sea saw there was no other boat there except the one Jesus' disciples entered. They saw Jesus did not go with his disciples into the boat but they had gone away alone. Yet other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the people saw Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they also got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

"Rabbi," they said when they had found him on the other side of the sea, “when did you come here?"

"Most truly I tell you," answered Jesus. "You keep seeking me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which is perishing but for the food which continues to eternal life, which the Son of man shall give you. For him has God the

Father sealed."

"What must we do so that we may do the works of God?"

"This is the work of God, to believe in him whom he has sent."

"What sign do you show, then, so that we may see and believe you? What do you do? Our fathers ate manna in the desert as it is written :

He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

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"Most truly I tell you, Moses did not give you

that bread from heaven.

But my Father is giving

you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread

which God gives is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

"Lord, always give us this bread."

"I am the bread of life. He who keeps coming to me shall never hunger, and he who keeps believing in me shall never thirst. But I told you, You have seen me and do not believe. Everything the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. will of him who sent me, that of everything he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that every one who keeps looking at the Son and believing in him should have eternal life, and I shall raise him up at the last day."

This is the

The Jews complained about Jesus because he said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."

"Is not this Jesus the Son of Joseph," they said, "whose father and mother we know? How is it then he says, I have come down from heaven ?"

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"Do not complain among yourselves," answered Jesus. "No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draws him, and I shall raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets,

And they shall be all taught by God.

Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.

Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God, he has seen the Father. Most truly I tell you, He who believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and died. The bread which is coming down from heaven is such that any one may eat of it and never die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread he shall live forever. The bread I will give is my

flesh which I will give for the life of the world.”

"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" said the Jews as they began to dispute with each other.

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"Most truly I tell you," Jesus therefore said, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed.

He who keeps eating my flesh and drinking my. blood dwells in me and I in him. As the living Father has sent me and I live by the Father, so he who keeps eating me shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna and died. He who keeps eating this bread shall live forever."

Jesus said this in the synagogue as he was teaching in Capernaum.

"This is a hard saying," many of his disciples said when they heard this. "Who can hear it ? "

For

"Does this offend you?" said Jesus. he knew in himself his disciples were complaining at this. "What, then, if you should look at the Son of man ascending where he was before ? It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe and who should betray him. So he said: "For this reason I said to you, No one can come to me, except it has been given to him from the Father."

From this time many of Jesus' disciples went back and did not go about with him any longer.

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Surely you, too, do not want to go away?" he then said to the twelve.

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"Lord," Simon Peter answered, "to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed and know you are the Holy One of God."

"Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you is a devil.”

He spoke of Judah Iscariot, the son of Simon. For he was the one of the twelve who was going to betray him.

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After this Jesus kept going about Galilee. For he did not want to go about Judæa, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

The Jews' feast of Tabernacles was near.

"Go away from here," his brothers said to him, "and go into Judæa, so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one does anything in secret when he is seeking to be known openly. If you are doing these things

show yourself to the world." For not even his brothers believed in him.

"My time has not yet come," Jesus answered, "but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I keep witnessing about it that its deeds are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not going up yet to this feast,

for my time has not yet fully come."