John 6:53-58

Bible Text

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

Capernaum, on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, was Jesus’ ministry base and the setting of this synagogue discourse; Tiberias was a nearby lakeside city. The Galilean setting frames Jesus’ words as public teaching that calls hearers to receive him by faith as the true bread from heaven.

Places in this passage

John 6:53-58 mentions Capernaum, Sea of Galilee and Tiberias.

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