John 6:51

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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

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  • Luke 22:19 : 19 Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying,“This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,“Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 3:13 : 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven– the Son of Man.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
  • John 4:10-11 : 10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
  • John 6:33 : 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
  • John 7:38 : 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Heb 10:5-9 : 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,
  • Heb 10:20 : 20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
  • 1 Pet 2:4 : 4 A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • John 6:52-58 : 52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 The one 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 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

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    47I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

  • John 6:52-59
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    52Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

    53Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

    54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

    55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

    56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

    57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

    58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

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  • John 6:31-36
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    31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

    32Then Jesus told them,“I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

    33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

    34So they said to him,“Sir, give us this bread all the time!”

    35Jesus said to them,“I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

    36But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

  • John 6:38-42
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    38For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

    39Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

    40For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

    41Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said,“I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

    42and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”

  • John 6:26-27
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    26Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

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  • John 6:62-63
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    62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

    63The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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  • Matt 26:26
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  • Luke 22:19
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    19Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying,“This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

  • John 4:32-34
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    32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

    33So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

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    23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

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    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

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    14But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

  • John 14:19
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    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    36Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

    37But he answered them,“You give them something to eat.” And they said,“Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”

  • Matt 6:11
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    11Give us today our daily bread,

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    26For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

    27For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

  • Matt 4:4
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  • John 10:11
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    11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  • John 21:13
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    13Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

  • John 10:17
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    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

  • John 8:51
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    51I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.