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On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were willing to be gladdened by his light.

And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

But if you disbelieve his writings, how are you to believe my words?"

Then Jesus went up the hill, and sat there with His disciples.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

When evening came on, His disciples went down to the Lake.

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them,

Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him.