Jesus answered, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.

This started an angry argument among them. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.

Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"

Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.

There was much whispering about him in the crowd. "He is a good man," some people said. "No," others said, "he fools the people."

Some Pharisees and some teachers of the Law who belonged to their group complained to Jesus' disciples. "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other outcasts?" they asked.

the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, "This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!"

All the people who saw it started grumbling, "This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!"

We must not complain, as some of them did---and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

These people are always grumbling and blaming others; they follow their own evil desires; they brag about themselves and flatter others in order to get their own way.

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."

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."