hen the Jews contended with each other, saying, How can this man
give us his flesh to eat? (53)Jesus therefore said to them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. (54)He that eateth my
flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath life eternal: and I will raise him
up at the last day. (55)For my flesh truly is meat, and my blood truly
is drink. (56)He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth
in me, and I in him. (57)As the life-giving Father hath sent me, and I
live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same shall live by me.
(58)This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as the manna
your fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live to
eternity.

(59)These things he spake in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
(60)Many therefore of his disciples, who heard him, said, Difficult is
this discourse, who is able to fathom it? (61)Then Jesus, conscious in
himself that his disciples murmured concerning this discourse, said
unto them, Doth this stumble you? (62)What then if ye see the Son of
man ascending where he was formerly? (63)The Spirit is the life-giving
power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to
you, they are spirit, and they are life. (64)But there are some of you
who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who
did not believe, and who the person was that should betray him. (65)And
he said, Therefore have I informed you, That no man can come to me,
except it be given him of my Father.

(66)From that _discourse_ many of his disciples went away back, and no
more followed him about. (67)Then said Jesus to the twelve, Will ye
also go away? (68)Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, unto whom shall
we go from thee? thou hast the words of eternal life. (69)And we have
believed and known that thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living
God. (70)Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of
you is a devil? (71)Now he spake of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon:
for this man was ready to betray him, though he was one of the twelve.

CHAP. VII.

AND Jesus after these things travelled about in Galilee: for he would
not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. (2)And a
feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles. (3)Then said his
disciples to him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples
also may see thy