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

And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

But that "He ascended"--what it is but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Then I said, Behold, I have come; in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I desired to do Your will, O my God, and Your law in the midst of my heart.

The Lord also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you give an offering for sin, Your soul shall see a long-lived seed;

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many."

He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You [will]."

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Indeed the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me."

but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming to be in the likeness of men.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

though He was a Son, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.'"

then He has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.