As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Parallel translations
- KJV As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
- BSB Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
- NKJV As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
- NASB Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, the one who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
- NLT I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.
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Quick answer
As the living Father sent Jesus and He lives by the Father, so the one who feeds on Him will live by Him. The believer's life flows from Christ as Christ's flows from the Father.
Overview
Jesus describes a chain of life: from the Father to the Son, and from the Son to the believer. Just as the Son draws His life from the Father, so His people draw their life from Him. Feeding on Christ by faith brings the believer into this life-giving union, the source of eternal life.
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Cross-references · 16
- 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 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
- John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- Ps 18:46Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
- 1 Jn 4:9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
- 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
- Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
- 1 Cor 15:22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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