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The Book of John, Chapter 6, Verse 53

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The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?
King James Version
Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.›
American Standard Version
Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.
New English Translation
But there are some of you who do not believe.”(For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
World English Bible
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
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‹Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.›
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‹For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.›
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‹He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.›
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‹As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.›
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‹This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.›
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These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
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Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
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When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, ‹Doth this offend you?›
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[What] ‹and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?›
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‹It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,› [they] ‹are spirit, and› [they] ‹are life.›