16 Bible Verses about Jesus As Food
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Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.
I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"
The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"
This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."
Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,
And he took a loaf of bread and thanked God, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body.
Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.
Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'
This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"
Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood 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 lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him.
Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.