[6:52] The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
[6:53] Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. [6:54] He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. [6:55] For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. [6:56] He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. [6:57] As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. [6:58] This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." [6:59] These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
[6:60] Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
[6:61] But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? [6:62] Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? [6:63] It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. [6:64] But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him. [6:65] He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
[6:66] At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. [6:67] Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"
[6:68] Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. [6:69] We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
[6:70] Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" [6:71] Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
[7:1] After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. [7:2] Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. [7:3] His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. [7:4] For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." [7:5] For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
[7:6] Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. [7:7] The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. [7:8] You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
[7:9] Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. [7:10] But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. [7:11] The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" [7:12] There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." [7:13] Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. [7:14] But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. [7:15] The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"