Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Parallel translations
- WEB He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- KJV Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
- NKJV Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- NASB The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
- NLT But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day.
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Quick answer
Whoever feeds on Jesus's flesh and blood has eternal life and will be raised at the last day. Receiving Christ crucified secures present life and future resurrection.
Overview
Jesus repeats the promise of eternal life and bodily resurrection for those who feed on Him. The imagery underscores intimate, ongoing reliance on His sacrifice. Faithful Christians have long heard echoes of the Lord's Supper here, yet agree the core meaning is the saving faith that personally appropriates Christ and His death.
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- Phil 3:7–10But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- John 6:39–40And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- Prov 9:4–6“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
- John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 6:47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
- Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- Ps 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
- Isa 25:6–8On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
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John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.
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