53 So Jesus said to them, |Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
54 |He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 |For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
56 |He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
57 |As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
58 |This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.|
59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard [this] said, |This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?|
61 But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, |Does this cause you to stumble?
62 |[What] then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
63 |It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
64 |But there are some of you who do not believe.| For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
65 And He was saying, |For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.|
66 As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve, |You do not want to go away also, do you?|
68 Simon Peter answered Him, |Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
69 |We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.|
70 Jesus answered them, |Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and [yet] one of you is a devil?|
71 Now He meant Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
