John 6:55-69

My flesh is true food. My blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in him. The Father sent me. The Father lives, and I live because of the Father. So he who eats me will live because of me. I am not like the bread our ancestors ate. They ate that bread, but still they died. I am the bread that came down from heaven. He who eats this bread will live forever.” Jesus said all these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. The followers of Jesus heard this. Many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?” Jesus knew that his followers were complaining about this. So he said, “Does this teaching bother you? Then will it also bother you to see the Son of Man going back to the place where he came from? It is not the flesh that gives a person life. It is the spirit that gives life. The words I told you are spirit, and so they give life. But some of you don’t believe.” (Jesus knew who did not believe. He knew this from the beginning. And he knew who would turn against him.) Jesus said, “That is the reason I said, ‘If the Father does not let a person come to me, then he cannot come.’” After Jesus said this, many of his followers left him. They stopped following him. Jesus asked the 12 followers, “Do you want to leave, too?” Simon Peter answered Jesus, “Lord, who would we go to? You have the words that give eternal life. We believe in you. We know that you are the Holy One from God.”