Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven,
And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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