<p class="bodytext">Then Jesus told them, &#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

No one<n id="1" /> has ascended<n id="2" /> into heaven except the one who descended from heaven &#8211; the Son of Man.<n id="3" />

For the bread of God is the one who<n id="1" /> comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.&#8221;

Father, glorify your name.&#8221; Then a voice came from heaven,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have glorified it,<n id="2" /> and I will glorify it<n id="3" /> again.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> John testified,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I saw the Spirit descending like a dove<n id="3" /> from heaven,<n id="4" /> and it remained on him.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">John replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Our ancestors<n id="1" /> ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, &#8216;<b><i>He gave them bread from heaven to eati>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus<n id="1" /> began complaining about him because he said, &#8220;I am the bread that came down from heaven,&#8221;

This<n id="1" /> is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person<n id="2" /> may eat from it and not die.

<p class="bodytext">The one who comes from above is superior to all.<n id="1" /> The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things.<n id="2" /> The one who comes from heaven<n id="3" /> is superior to all.<n id="4" />

and they said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, &#8216;I have come down from heaven&#8217;?&#8221;

This<n id="1" /> is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors<n id="2" /> ate, but then later died.<n id="3" /> The one who eats<n id="4" /> this bread will live forever.&#8221;p>

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread<n id="1" /> that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.&#8221;p>