Thursday
Read John 6:56-69
56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my
blood live in me, and I live in them. 57 The living Father sent me, and because
of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me. 58
This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread
that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will
live forever.”
59 Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”
61 Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, “Does this make you want to give up? 62 Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before? 63 What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit. 64 Yet some of you do not believe.” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.) 65 And he added, “This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so.”
66 Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more. 67 So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you—would you also like to leave?”
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. 69 And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.”
Good News Translation (GNT)
Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society
59 Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”
61 Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, “Does this make you want to give up? 62 Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before? 63 What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit. 64 Yet some of you do not believe.” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.) 65 And he added, “This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so.”
66 Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more. 67 So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you—would you also like to leave?”
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. 69 And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.”
Good News Translation (GNT)
Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society
Think
Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom
would we go? You have the words that
give eternal life." (Verse 68). Jesus words help us to adopt Jesus ideas
as our ideas and our highest values.
They are the words that give us life in all of its fullness.
Pray
Lord plant your words in me like seeds that
grow into great trees and bear fruit as I learn to love you more and more.
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