John 6:52

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

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  • John 9:16 : 16 Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.
  • John 10:19 : 19 There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.
  • John 3:9 : 9 And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
  • John 6:41 : 41 Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
  • John 7:40-43 : 40 When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee? 42 Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
  • John 4:11 : 11 The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
  • John 3:4 : 4 Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

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  • John 6:53-63
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    53Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

    54He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

    55My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

    56He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

    57As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

    58This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

    59Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum.

    60Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

    61When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

    62What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

    63The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

  • John 6:48-51
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    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

    50The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

    51I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

  • John 6:41-43
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    41Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

    42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

    43Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another.

  • John 6:30-36
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    30So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

    31Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

    32Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

    33The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

    34Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

    35And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

    36But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

  • John 4:32-33
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    32But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

    33So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • John 6:4-6
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    4Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

    5Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

    6This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

  • John 6:26-28
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    26Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

    27Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

    28Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

  • John 10:19
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    19There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

  • John 8:52
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    52The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    36Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

    37But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

  • John 7:36
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    36What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

  • Mark 14:22
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    22And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

  • Mark 3:20
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    20And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.

  • John 2:18
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    18Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Mark 8:16
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    16And they said to one another, We have no bread.

  • John 6:66-67
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    66Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

    67So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

  • Matt 26:26
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    26And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

  • Matt 15:33
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    33And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • Matt 16:7
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    7And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

  • Mark 8:4
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    4And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?