John 6:56

John 6:56

54 ^aWhoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is² drink indeed.

56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood ^aabides in Me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

58 ^aThis is the bread which came down from heaven—not ^bas your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

Many Disciples Turn Away

60 ^aTherefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a¹ hard saying; who can understand it?”

61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples¹ complained about this, He said to them, “Does this² offend you?

62 ^aWhat then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?

63 ^aIt is the Spirit who gives life; the ^bflesh profits nothing. The ^cwords that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

64 But ^athere are some of you who do not believe.” For ^bJesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.

65 And He said, “Therefore ^aI have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

66 ^aFrom that time many of His disciples went¹ back and walked with Him no more.

67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ^athe words of eternal life.

69 ^aAlso we have come to believe and know that You are the¹ Christ, the Son of the living God.”

70 Jesus answered them, ^a“Did I not choose you, the twelve, ^band one of you is a devil?”

71 He spoke of ^aJudas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would ^bbetray Him, being one of the twelve.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Dwelleth in me, and I in him - Of all connections and unions, none is so intimate and complete as that which is effected by the digestion of aliments, because they are changed into the very substance of him who eats them; and this our Lord makes the model of that union which subsists between himself and genuine believers. He lives in them, and they in him; for they are made partakers of the Divine nature: II Peter 1:4. To this verse the following addition is made in the Codex Bezae, three copies of the Itala, and Victorinus. After these words - dwelleth in me, and I in him, they add, as the Father in me, and I in the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that unless ye receive the body of the Son of man as the bread of life, ye have not life in him. This is a very remarkable addition, and is between thirteen and fourteen hundred years old.

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