44. No one is able to come to me unless HaAv Who sent me should draw him, and I will raise him up on the Yom HaAcharon. [Jer 31:3; Hos 11:4]
45. It has been written in the Nevi'im, V'CHOL they LIMUDI HASHEM (They shall all be taught of G-d [Isa 54:13; see Jer 31:33, 34]. Everyone having heard from HaAv and having learned comes to me.
46. Not that anyone has seen HaAv except the one being sent from Hashem; this one has seen HaAv.
47. Omein, omein, I say to you, the one having emunah has Chayyei Olam.
48. Ani Hu the lechem haChayyim. [BAMIDBAR 14:23; DEVARIM 1:35]
49. Your Avot ate in the wilderness the manna and died.
50. This is the lechem coming down out of Shomayim, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. [Gn 3:22]
51. Ani hu the lechem haChai (the living bread) having come down out of Shomayim. If anyone eats of this lechem he will live l'olam v'ed. And, indeed, the lechem which I will give on behalf of the Chayyim (life) of HaOlam is the basar of me [Ex 12:8].
52. Therefore, those of Yehudah were arguing with one another, saying, How is this man able to give us the basar of him to eat?