55. for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
56. he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
57. `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
58. this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live--to the age.'
59. These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
60. many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
61. And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?
62. if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?
63. the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
64. but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,
65. and he said, `Because of this I have said to you--No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'
66. From this [time] many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,