⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live^(A) for ever.^(B) The bread that I will give for the life^(C) of the world is my flesh.’^(D)

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father.^(A) I lay down my life^(B) for the sheep.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(A) The life I now live in the body,^[a] I live by faith in the Son of God,^(B) who loved^(C) me^(D) and gave himself^(E) for me.^(F)