who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

And at once the man was well, and picked up his pallet, and went to walking. Now it was the Sabbath.

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him.

If we let Him go on this way, everybody will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and nation."

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into His side and blood and water at once flowed out.

I most solemnly say to you, when you were young, you used to put on your own belt and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put a belt on you and you will go where you do not please to go."