₂₅When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Teacher, when did you get here?”

₂₆Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles. ₂₇Do not work for food that goes bad; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him.”

₂₈So they asked him, “What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?”

₂₉Jesus answered, “What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.”

₃₀They replied, “What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? ₃₁Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

₃₂“I am telling you the truth,” Jesus said. “What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven. ₃₃For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

₃₄“Sir,” they asked him, “give us this bread always.”

₃₅“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.