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John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven' ?"

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,

and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.

whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,