John 6:54
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.
Webster's Revision
Whoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
World English Bible
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
English Revised Version (ERV)
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Clarke's John 6:54 Bible Commentary
Hath eternal life - This can never be understood of the sacrament of the Lord's supper.
1. Because this was not instituted till a year after; at the last Passover.
2. It cannot be said that those who do not receive that sacrament must perish everlastingly.
3. Nor can it be supposed that all those who do receive it are necessarily and eternally saved.
On the contrary, St. Paul intimates that many who received it at Corinth perished, because they received it unworthily, not discerning the Lord's body: not distinguishing between it and a common meal; and not properly considering that sacrifice for sin, of which the sacrament of the Lord's super was a type: see 1 Corinthians 11:30.
