A moment in scripture
John 6:51
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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The surrounding passage
- John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
- John 6:50
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
- John 6:52
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
- John 6:53
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.