John 6:54
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
KJV
ὁ τρώγων μου τὴν σάρκα καὶ πίνων μου τὸ αἷμα ἔχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον, κἀγὼ ἀναστήσω αὐτὸν τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.
Greek NT
Dixit ergo eis Jesus : Amen, amen dico vobis : nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis, et biberitis ejus sanguinem, non habebitis vitam in vobis.
Vulgate
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
ASV
Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἰώνιος
aionios
adjective · 70×
αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κἀγώ
kago
pronoun · 85×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
τρώγω
trogo
verb · 6×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἔσχατος
eschatos
adjective · 53×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
17 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 5 passages
§994But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.543 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,544 announcing thereby …
§1509"Heal the sick!"120 The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them with her prayer of intercession. She believes in the life-giving presence of Christ, the physician of souls and bodies. This presence is particularly active through the sacraments, and in an altogether special way through t…
§1524In addition to the Anointing of the Sick, the Church offers those who are about to leave this life the Eucharist as viaticum. Communion in the body and blood of Christ, received at this moment of "passing over" to the Father, has a particular significance and importance. It is the seed of eternal life and the power of resurrection, according to the words of the Lord: "He who ea…
…and 2 more from this source.
Breaking one and the same bread, which is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying, but which causes that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ.
They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes.
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger. Calvin expounds the feeding of the five thousand as a sign pointing to Christ as the true bread from heaven. The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Whoever eats the flesh of the Son of Man and drinks his blood has eternal life. Calvin insists this is spiritual feeding by fai…
The benefit of the Sacrament is this, that it is given for the remission of sins. For this reason it is called a food of souls, which nourishes and strengthens the new man. For by Baptism we are first born anew; but there remains besides the old vicious nature of flesh and blood in man, and there are so many hindrances and temptations of the devil and of the world that we often…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
Is the Eucharist a sacrament? Is it one or several sacraments? Is it necessary for salvation? Its names Its institution Its figures Article 1. Whether the Eucharist is a sacrament? Objection 1. It seems that the Eucharist is not a sacrament. For two sacraments ought not to be ordained for the same end, because every sacrament is efficacious in producing its effect. Therefore, s…
Is the Body of Christ in this sacrament truly, or figuratively? Do the substance of bread and wine remain in this sacrament after the consecration? Is it annihilated? Is it changed into the body and blood of Christ? Do the accidents remain after the change? Does the substantial form remain there? Is this change instantaneous? Is it more miraculous than any other change?}--> By …
Q. What does it mean to eat the crucified body of Christ and to drink his poured-out blood? A. It means to accept with a believing heart the entire suffering and death of Christ and thereby to receive forgiveness of sins and eternal life. But it means more. Through the Holy Spirit, who lives both in Christ and in us, we are united more and more to Christ's blessed body. And so,…
The Supper of the Lord (which is called the Lord's Table, and the Eucharist, that is, a Thanksgiving) is ordinarily administered in the congregations of the saints, that in it the death of Christ may be held in memory, and his coming again expected, according to his own ordinance: "Do this in remembrance of me; for as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim …
We believe Holy Baptism, which was instituted by the Lord, who said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5), to be necessary for salvation. For without it none is able to be saved. Baptism confers the remission of original and actual sin. Infants also, since they too are under original sin, and without Baptism are n…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- 1John 2:25 — And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
- 1John 3:24 — And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
- 1Tim 1:16 — Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
- Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
- Isa 25:6 — And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Isa 55:1 — Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- John 4:14 — But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- John 6:39 — And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
- John 6:39 — And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
- John 6:40 — And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:47 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
- John 6:47 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- John 11:26 — And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
- Phil 3:7 — But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
- Prov 9:4 — Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
- Ps 22:26 — The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
- Titus 1:2 — In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;