Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

For the bread of God is He who  ¹comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

They said therefore to Him, Lord, give us this bread always.

Jesus said to them, I am the  ¹bread of life; he who comes to Me shall  ²by no means hunger, and he who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.

But I have said to you that you have also seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and him who comes to Me I shall by no means cast out.

For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up in the last day.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes into Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

The Jews therefore murmured concerning Him because He said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the  ¹son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, I have come down out of heaven?

Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur among yourselves.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day.

It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught of God.” Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except Him who is  ¹from God, He has seen the Father.

Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the  ¹living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever;

And the bread which I will give is My  ²flesh, given  ³for the life of the world.

The Jews then contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us His flesh to eat?

Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His  ¹blood, you do not have life within yourselves.

He who  ¹eats My flesh and drinks My  ²blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and  ¹I in him.

As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who  ¹eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread shall live forever.

He said these things in a synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This word is hard; who can hear it?

But Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, Does this stumble you?

Then what if you saw the Son of Man  ¹ascending to where He was before?

It is the  ¹Spirit who gives life; the  ²flesh profits nothing; the  ³words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones who did not believe and who was the one who would  ¹betray Him.

And He said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been given to him from the Father.

From that time many of His disciples went back to what they left behind and no longer walked with Him.

Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Do you also want to go away?

Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life,

And we have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.

Jesus answered them, Was it not I who chose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.

Now He spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, would betray Him.

And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

And when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon; and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;

And they sent word to him and called him), Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Your father made our  ¹yoke hard. Now therefore make the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us lighter, and we will serve you.

And he said to them, Go away for another three days, then return to me. And the people went away.

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who attended Solomon his father while he was alive, saying, What counsel do you give me to return as an answer to this people?

And they spoke to him, saying, If today you will be a servant to this people and serve them and answer them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants always.

But he forsook the counsel of the elders with which they counseled him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who attended him.

And he said to them, What counsel do you give me that we may return an answer to this people who have spoken to me, saying, Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us?

And the young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter on us; thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

And now, whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, I will increase your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, Return to me on the third day.

And the king answered the people harshly; and he forsook the counsel of the elders that they had given him

And spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will increase your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was of Jehovah that He might establish His word which Jehovah had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people returned an answer to the king, saying, What portion do we have in David? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, O David. And Israel went to their tents.

But as for the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to get up into his chariot and flee to Jerusalem.

So Israel has rebelled against the house of David until this day.

And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent word to him and called him to the assembly; and they made him king over all Israel. There was none who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand choice warriors, to wage war with the house of Israel in order to return the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying,

Thus says Jehovah, You shall not go up and wage war with your brothers the children of Israel. Every man return to his house; for this matter is of Me. So they listened to the word of Jehovah and returned and went their way according to the word of Jehovah.

Then Jeroboam built up Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he dwelt in it; and he went forth from there and built up Penuel.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

If this people go up to make sacrifices in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will  ¹return to their lord, to Rehoboam the king of Judah; and they will slay me and return to Rehoboam the king of Judah.

And the king took counsel and made two  ¹calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

And he set one in Bethel, and he put the other one in Dan.

And this thing became a  ¹sin; and the people went to worship the one as far as Dan.

And he made a  ¹house of  ²high places and appointed priests from among the people who were not from the sons of Levi.

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; he did likewise at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

And he went up to the altar that he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day, in the eighth month, that is, the month he had devised in his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.

And at that moment there came a man of God from Judah by the word of Jehovah to Bethel while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to burn incense.

And he cried out against the altar by the word of Jehovah and said, Altar, O altar, thus says Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and he will sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones will they burn upon you.

And he gave a sign that day, saying, This is the sign that Jehovah has spoken: The altar here will be torn apart, and the ashes that are upon it will be poured out.

And when the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from over the altar, saying, Lay hold of him! And his hand, which he had stretched out against him, withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.

And the altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured forth from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of Jehovah.

And the king responded and said to the man of God, Entreat Jehovah your God, I beg you, and intercede for me that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God entreated Jehovah, and the king's hand was restored to him as it had been formerly.

Then the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and have something to eat; and I will give you a gift.

But the man of God said to the king, If you gave me half your household, I would not go with you; and I will not eat food nor drink water in this place;

For thus was I commanded by the word of Jehovah, saying, You shall not eat food nor drink water, nor shall you return by the way that you came.

So he went by another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.

Now there was a certain old prophet dwelling in Bethel. And his  ¹sons came and related to him all the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words that he had spoken to the king, they also related to their father.

And their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God, who came from Judah, had gone.

And he said to his sons, Saddle the donkey for me. So they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it.

And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under a terebinth. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

And he said to him, Come home with me, and eat some food.

But he said, I cannot return with you and go with you; neither will I eat food nor drink water with you in this place.

For I was told by the word of Jehovah, You shall not eat food nor drink water there, nor shall you return by going on the way that you came there.

And the old man said, I also am a prophet like you, and an angel has spoken to me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water. He lied to him.

So he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water.

And while they were sitting at the table, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet who brought him back;

And he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Jehovah, Because you have rebelled against the word of Jehovah and did not keep the command that Jehovah your God commanded you,

But returned and ate food and drank water in the place concerning which He said to you, Do not eat food and do not drink water; your corpse shall not come to the grave of your fathers.

And after he had eaten food and had drunk water, the old man saddled the donkey for him, that is, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

And as he went, a lion met him on the way and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion stood beside the corpse also.

And some men soon passed by and saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside the corpse, and they went and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, It is the man of God, who rebelled against the word of Jehovah; and Jehovah has given him to the lion, which tore him apart and killed him, according to the word of Jehovah which He spoke to him.

Then he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle the donkey for me; and they saddled it.

And he went and found his corpse thrown on the road and the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse; the lion had not eaten the corpse, nor had it torn the donkey apart.

And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back; and it was brought to the city of the old prophet for mourning and for burial.

And he laid his corpse in his own grave and mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

And after he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; beside his bones lay my bones.

For the word that he cried out by the word of Jehovah against the altar that is in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.