16 Bible Verses about Jesus As Food
Most Relevant Verses
“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.
And He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”
So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in God’s paradise.
At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,
because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.