This is the word of the Lord.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

John 6:41-51
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.

 

The Jews were complaining to each other about Jesus, because he had said, 'I am the bread that came down from heaven.' 'Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph' they said. 'We know his father and mother. How can he now say, "I have come down from heaven"?' Jesus said in reply, 'Stop complaining to each other.

 

 'No one can come to me
 unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me,
 and I will raise him up at the last day.
 It is written in the prophets:
 They will all be taught by God,
 and to hear the teaching of the Father,
 and learn from it,
 is to come to me.
 Not that anybody has seen the Father,
 except the one who comes from God:
 he has seen the Father.
 I tell you most solemnly,
 everybody who believes has eternal life.
 I am the bread of life.
 Your fathers ate the manna in the desert
 and they are dead;
 but this is the bread that comes down from heaven,
 so that a man may eat it and not die.
 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
 Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
 and the bread that I shall give
 is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

This is the Gospel of the Lord.