^{53 Ref} Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

^{54 Ref} He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

^{55 Ref} My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

^{56 Ref} He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

^{57 Ref} As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

^{58 Ref} This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

^{53 Ref} Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

^{54 Ref} he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

^{55 Ref} for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;

^{56 Ref} he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

^{57 Ref} `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 Ref} 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.'

^{53 Ref} Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

^{54 Ref} He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

^{55 Ref} For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

^{56 Ref} He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

^{57 Ref} As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

^{58 Ref} This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."