^{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.'

^{59 Ref} These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

^{60 Ref} many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

^{61 Ref} And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?

^{62 Ref} if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

^{63 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} From this `time' many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,