As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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 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 5:26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
- John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
- Col 3:3–4For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Jer 10:10But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
- John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
- Ps 18:46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
- 1 Jn 4:9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
- 1 Th 1:9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
- 2 Cor 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
- Matt 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- John 11:25–26Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- 1 Cor 15:22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
- John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- Heb 9:14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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