Join us as we examine the reality that Jesus would never play to the crowd. Jesus would rather tell you the truth than to flatter you with lies.

John 6:41-71 (CSB)

⁴¹ Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”
⁴³ Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to me ​— ​ ⁴⁶ not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father.
⁴⁷ “Truly I tell you, anyone who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
⁵² At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ”
⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day, ⁵⁵ because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your ancestors ate ​— ​and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
⁵⁹ He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
⁶⁰ Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it? ”
⁶¹ Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? ⁶² Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? ⁶³ The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who did not believe and the one who would betray him.) ⁶⁵ He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”
⁶⁶ From that moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you? ”
⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered, “Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
⁷⁰ Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.” ⁷¹ He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray him.