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

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."