John 6:56
If anybody believes in me, they will join up with me, and I will join up with them. It’s like they eat my body and drink my blood. I will live in them, and we will stay joined together.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
In Context
55You see, my body is like the best food, and my blood is like the best drink.
Cross References
John 14:23Jesus said, “If anyone loves me, they will do whatever I tell them. And my father will love them, and we will come and live with them.
John 17:21Join them all together, Father, and make them one mob, just like you and me are joined together. It’s like you are in me, and I am in you. I want you to join them to us in the same way, so it’s like they are in us. Then people in the world can believe that you sent me to the world.
Ephesians 3:17I pray that you will trust Jesus Christ properly, so that he will live inside you. I pray that you will always love God properly, and that you will always love other people too, so that you will always keep standing strong for him, like the roots of a tree always keep it standing up strong.
1 John 4:12You know, nobody ever saw God. But if we love each other, that shows that God is joined up with us, and his love is truly in us.
Matthew Henry on John 6:29-60
Christ the True Bread from Heaven; Christ Welcomes All that Come to Him; Necessity of Feeding upon Christ. 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32… Read the whole commentary →