Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath 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.
- BSB Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has 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 what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
- John 6:39–40And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
- Gal 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
- John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- Prov 9:4–6Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
- John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 6:47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
- Isa 55:1–3Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- Ps 22:26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
- Isa 25:6–8And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
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