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212 I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eate ″ Manna in the desert; and they died. This is the bread that descendeth from Heaven: that if any man eate of it,he die not. I am the living bread, that came downe from Heaven. If any man eate of this bread, he shal live for ever: and * the bread which I wil give, is my flesh for the life of the world.✠

The Jewes therfore strove among themselves, saying: ″ How can this man give us his flesh to eate? therfore said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, ″ Unles you eate the flesh of the Sonne of man, ″ and drinke his bloud, ″ you shal not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, hath life everlasting: and ″ I wil raise him up in the last day. ✠ For my flesh, is ″ meate indeed: and my bloud is drinke indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: and he that eateth me, the same also shal live by me. This is the bread that came downe from Heaven. Not as your Fathers did eate manna, and died. ″ He that eateth this bread, shal live for ever.✠ These things he said teaching in the Synagogue, in Capharnaum.

Many therfore of his Disciples hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can heare it? But knowing with himself that his Disciples murmured at this, he said to them: Doth this scandalize you? ″ If then you shal see * the Sonne of man ascend where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth, ″ the flesh profiteth nothing. The wordes that I have spoken to you, be spirit and life. But there be certaine of you ″ that beleeve not. For knew from the beginning who they were that did not beleeve, and who he was that would betray him. And he said: Therfore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unles it be given him of my Father. After this many of his Disciples ″ went backe: and now they walked not with him.

therfore said to the Twelve: What, wil you also depart? Simon ″ Peter therfore answered him: Lord, to whom shal we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternal life. And we beleeve and have knowen that thou art Christ the Sonne of God. answered them: Have not I chosen you the Twelve; and of you one is a Divel? And he meant Judas Iscariot, Simons sonne: for this same was to betray him, whereas he was one of the Twelve.

ANNOTATIONS. XVI.

27. Worke not the meate.) By their greedy seeking after him for meate of the bodie, he taketh occasion to draw them to the desire of a more excellent food which he had to give them, and so by litle to open unto them the great meate and mysterie of the B. Sacrament: which (as he proveth) doth not only far passe their ordinarie bread or his marvelous multiplied loaves, but Manna it self, which they thought came from Heaven, and so much wondered at it. Rh