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Your ancestors ate manna in the desert,
but they died.
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But the bread that comes down from heaven
is of such a kind...
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that whoever eats it will not die.
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I am the living bread
that came down from heaven!
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If you eat this bread, you will live forever!
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The bread that I will give you is my flesh...
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which I give so that the world may live!
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This started an angry argument
among them.
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How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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I am telling you the truth.
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If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood...
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you will not have life in yourselves!
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood
have eternal life...
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and I will raise them to life on the last day.
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For my flesh is the real food,
my blood is the real drink!
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood
live in me...
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and I live in them.
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The living Father sent me...
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and because of him I live also.
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In the same way, whoever eats me
will live because of me.
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This, then, is the bread
that came down from heaven.
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It is not like the bread
that your ancestors ate, but then later died.
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Those who eat this bread...
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will live forever.
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Jesus said this as he taught
in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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Many of his followers heard this and said:
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"This teaching is too hard.
Who can listen to it?"
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Without being told, Jesus knew
that they were grumbling about this.
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Does this make you want to give up?
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Suppose, then...