Nevertheless, as I said, you refuse to believe, even when you have seen. Yet all those whom
the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I shall not turn away.
For I have come from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the One who sent me. And
the will of him who sent me is that I lose nothing of what he has given me, but instead that I
raise it up on the last day. This is the will of the Father, that whoever sees the Son and
believes in him shall live eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Reflect

“Jesus is always life-giving.” One of the profoundest descriptions of Jesus in John’s
Gospel is that he made himself known to be the bread of life, explaining that whoever
comes to him will never be hungry. In today’s Gospel, this description is connected with
eternal life, which will be received by the one who believes in Jesus. There will be no
more starvation in eternal life and eternal life is given to the one who believes in Jesus
who himself is the bread of life. We may reflect on an aspect of eternal life as deeply
related to Jesus’ offering of himself. Jesus as the bread of life gives his very self so that
others may live. Bread might be ordinary but it is extraordinarily life-giving. Eternal life
is already experienced, albeit in part, when one shares his or her very self for the life
of others. Jesus, being the bread of life, is always life-giving. We, Christians, are
called to be like Jesus. We are challenged to offer our lives so that other lives may also
be nourished. Like a piece of bread that is broken and shared in order to give life,
when was the last time we did something that is truly life-giving?

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