Christ the

42 And they said, Is a not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among selves.

your-d

44 b No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day.

51 I am the living bread 1 which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever and m the bread that will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

52 The Jews thereforen strove among themselves, saying, How can this man ch. 3. 16. give us his flesh to eat?

18. 36.

me.

10.

46 e Not that any man hath seen the Father, f save he which is of God, he P hath seen the Father.

28.

47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, g He that believeth on mer hath everlasting life. 48 h 1 am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead

63.

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, 1 say unto you, Except Pye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh

15, 16. my blood, dwelRe. 3. 20. leth in me, and I in him.

Peter's confession 57 As the living| A. D. 32. Father hath sent me, and I live by the Fa-s ther so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." *

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven:

ver. 49, 50,

t ver. 66.

51.

Ma. 11. 6.

u ch. 3. 13.

Mar. 16. 19.

Ac. 1. 9.

Ep. 4. 8.

not as your fathers x 2 Co. 3. 6. did eat manna, and y ver. 36. are dead: he that z ch. 2. 24, eateth of this bread. 25. shall live for ever. & 13. 11.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

a

ver. 44, 45. Ep. 2. 8.9. Ph. 1. 23. 1 Ti. 1. 14. 2 Ti, 2. 25.

Tit. 3.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when Ja. 1. 18. they had heard this, b ver. 60. said, This is an harde Ac 5. 20. saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus d knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said

1 Jno. 5.

7.

11. 13.

ch. 1. 49.

& 11. 27. Ma. 16. 16.

Mar. 8. 29.

Lu. 9. 20.

Lu. 6. 13.

fch. 13, 27.

The lan

unto them, Doth this e offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of ver. 57man ascend up where he was before?

no

guage in

that saving

faith in

these verses 63 It is the spirit is figurative: that quickeneth; the they declare, flesh profiteth thing: the words that Christ is the I speak unto you, true nutrithey are spirit, and ment of the they are life. soal, as eatis to the ing of bread

64 But y there are some of you that believe not. For z Jesus

body.

of Christ.

knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore a said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 b From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast e the words of eternal life.

69 d And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

70 Jesus answered them, e Have not I chosen you twelve, and f one of you is a devil?

71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

CHAP. VII.

1 AFTER

these

things Jesus walked in Galilee for he would not walk in a ch. 5. 16. Jewry, a because the b Le. 23.34. Jews sought to kill him.

2 b Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles a was at hand.

3 His brethren therefore said unto

c Ma. 12. 46.

Mar. 3. 31.
Ac. 1. 14.
Mar. 3. 21.

e ver. 8. 30.

ch. 2. 4.
& 8.20.

in the temple.

these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

11 Then i the Jews sought him at the

and go into Judæa, that thy disciples also may see the works

g ch. 3. 19.

hver. 6.

ch. 8. 20.

is he?

12 And there was much murmuring a

4 For there is no man that doeth auy thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

k ch. 9. 16.

& 10. 19. I ver. 40.

m

5 For d neither did his brethren believe n in him.

6 Then Jesus said unto them, e My time is not yet come but your time is alway ready.

ch. 6. 14.

Ma. 21, 46,
Lu. 7. 16.

ch. 9. 22. & 12. 42. & 19.38. Ma. 13.54. Mar. 6. 2. Lu. 4. 22.

Ac. 2. 7.

Or, learn

ing.

o ch. 3. 11.

& 8. 28.

& 12. 49. & 14. 10.

24.

7 The world can-" not hate you; but me it hateth, g because I testify of it, that the p ch. 8. 43. works thereof are q ch. 5. 41. evil.

& 8.50.

8 Go ye up unto! this feast: I go not ver. 3up yet unto this feast;

for

my time is not

et full come.

9 When he had said

His rela

tions-not

necessarily brothers.

cerning him: 1 for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. 13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him form fear of the Jews. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

15 n And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

17 p If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speak

Divers opinions 32 The Pharisees] A. D. 32. heard that the people murmured such 1 ch. 13. 33. things concerning & 16. 16. him; and the Phari-m ch. 8. 21. sees and the Chief Priests sent officers to take him.

33 Then said Jesus unto them, 1 Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not

find me: and where I am, thither ye can

not come.

35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto n the dispersed among the Gentiles, t and teach the Gentiles?

36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye come?

cannot

& 13. 33. Ho.5, 6.

Is. 11. 12.

Ja. 1. 1.

Pe. 1. 1. tOr, Greeks o Le. 23.36. P ch. 6. 35. Re. 22. 17. Do. 18. 15.

Is. 55. 1.

concerning him.

outr of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet t glorified.)

40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this say. ing, said, Of a truth this is a the Prophet.

41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come y out of Galilee?

42 Hath not the

Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, a where David was

?

the

43 So there was a division among people because him.

of

44 And some of them would have taken him; but man laid hands on

38 He that be- & 10. 19. lieveth on me, as the c ver. 30. scripture hath said,

no

45 Then came the officers to the Chief Priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?