The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on 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.
- 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.
- 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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Cross-references · 11
- Phil 3:7–10However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
- John 6:39–40This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
- Prov 9:4–6“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
- Isa 55:1–3“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
- Isa 25:6–8In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
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