GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
53 Jesus told them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have the source of life in you.
54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will bring them back to life on the last day.
55 My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.
57 The Father who has life sent me, and I live because of the Father. So those who feed on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread your ancestors ate. They eventually died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said this while he was teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.
THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
53-58 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you. The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you. In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me. This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always.”
59 He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum.
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