Daily Discovery Bible Study

52 Then the Jews argued heatedly among themselves. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.

53 Jesus told them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you cannot truly live.54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood remain in me, and I remain in them.57 Just as the life-giving Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.58 Now this is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind your forefathers ate and still died. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever.”

59 Jesus explained this while he was teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.60 Many of his disciples when they heard it said, “This is hard to accept! Who can follow it?”

61 Jesus saw that his disciples were complaining about this, so he asked them, “Are you offended by this?62 Then what if you were to see the Son ascend to where he was before?63 The Spirit gives life; the physical body doesn't do anything. The words I've told you are spirit and life!64 Yet there are some of you who don't trust me.” (Jesus had known from the very beginning who didn't trust him, and who would betray him.)

65 Jesus added, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is made possible by the Father.”

John 6: 52-65