Eating and drinking 
everlasting life
| 6:27 "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you" | We can also think of the
woman of Samaria who was told in John 4:14 that drinking
the water that Christ offers would lead to everlasting
life. Eating and drinking |
| 6:50-51a "This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever" | |
| 6:53 "unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." | |
| 6:54 "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." |
| 3:16 "...that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life" | There are many other
places in the New Testament where similar things are
said. Believing |
| 6:40 "...that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." | |
| 6:47 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me has everlasting life." |
| 6:35 "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst." [coming and believing are put in parallel] | Eating and drinking, Believing, Coming |
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everlasting life |
| 5:40 "But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life." | |||
| 7:37 "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." |
| 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." [This is a very important verse because it explains what it means to abide in Christ] | Abiding in Christ | = | keeping His commandments |
| 6:56 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." | Abiding in Christ | = | Eating and drinking |