Bible verse
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.
John 6:57 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 6.
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
57 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.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
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.
ASV
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
ERV
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
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