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Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

For even his brothers had no belief in him.

But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

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They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.

And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

They did not see that his words were about the Father.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.