John 6:53-57

I Am the Bread of Life

⁵³ So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of _j the Son of Man and drink his blood, you _k have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood _l has eternal life, and _m I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood _n abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As _o the living Father _p sent me, and _q I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

1. Cross References
   John 6:27
   Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.
   
2. Cross References
   John 20:31
   But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
   
3. Cross References
   John 6:40
   For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
   
4. Cross References
   John 6:39
   And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
   
5. Cross References
   John 15:4 - 5
   Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
   1 John 3:24
   Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
   1 John 4:13
   By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
   1 John 4:15 - 16
   Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
   
6. Cross References
   John 5:26
   For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
   Matthew 16:16
   Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
   
7. Cross References
   John 3:17
   For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
   
8. Cross References
   John 11:25
   Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
   Revelation 1:18
   And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.