Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

John 6:55

For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

KJV

ἡ γὰρ σάρξ μου ἀληθής ἐστιν βρῶσις, καὶ τὸ αἷμά μου ἀληθής ἐστιν πόσις.

Greek NT

Qui manducat meam carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, habet vitam æternam : et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die.

Vulgate

For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

ASV

He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
βρῶσις
brosis
noun · 11×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πόσις
posis
noun · 3×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
ἀληθής
alethes
adjective · 26×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἀληθής | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀληθής | RP: ἀληθῶς
  • ἀληθής — SBLGNT
  • ἀληθής — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀληθῶς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀληθής | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀληθής | RP: ἀληθῶς
  • ἀληθής — SBLGNT
  • ἀληθής — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀληθῶς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2835This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"123 that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth,…
§2837"Daily" (epiousios) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Taken in a temporal sense, this word is a pedagogical repetition of "this day,"128 to confirm us in trust "without reservation." Taken in the qualitative sense, it signifies what is necessary for life, and more broadly every good thing sufficient for subsistence.129 Taken literally (epi-ousios: "super-essential"), it…
Wherefore, there is no room left for doubt that all the faithful of Christ may, according to the custom ever received in the Catholic Church, render in veneration the worship of latria, which is due to the true God, to this most holy sacrament.
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…
In the Eucharist, the bread and wine are truly changed into the body and blood of Christ by the invocation of the Holy Spirit. What appears to the senses as bread is no longer mere bread but the body of Christ; what appears as wine is His precious blood. Cyril appeals to Christ's own words — "This is my body" — and to John 6, where Christ declares that His flesh is true food. T…

Cross-references

  • 1John 5:6 — This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
  • 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
  • Heb 8:2 — A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
  • John 1:9 — That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  • John 1:47 — Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
  • John 6:32 — Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
  • John 6:53 — Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
  • John 7:37 — In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
  • John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
  • John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
  • John 8:36 — If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • Ps 4:7 — Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.