48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers did eate ″ Manna in the desert; and they died. 50This is the bread that descendeth from Heaven: that if any man eate of it,he die not. The Ghospel in a daily Masse for the dead.51I am the living bread, that came downe from Heaven. If any man eate of this bread, he shal live for ever: and Mt. 26, 26. Mr. 14, 22. Lu. 22, 19. 1. Cor. 21, 24.* the bread which I wil give, is my flesh for the life of the world.✠
52The Jewes therfore strove among themselves, saying: ″ How can this man give us his flesh to eate? 53Jesus 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. 54He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, hath life everlasting: and ″ I wil raise him up in the last day. ✠ The Ghospel upon Corpus Christi day.55For my flesh, is ″ meate indeed: and my bloud is drinke indeed. 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, abideth in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: and he that eateth me, the same also shal live by me. 58This 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.✠ 59These things he said teaching in the Synagogue, in Capharnaum.
60Many therfore of his Disciples hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can heare it? 61But Jesus knowing with himself that his Disciples murmured at this, he said to them: Doth this scandalize you? 62 ″ If then you shal see Jo. 3, 13.* the Sonne of man ascend where he was before? 63It is the spirit that quickeneth, ″ the flesh profiteth nothing. The wordes that I have spoken to you, be spirit and life. 64But there be certaine of you ″ that beleeve not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not beleeve, and who he was that would betray him. 65And he said: Therfore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unles it be given him of my Father. 66After this many of his Disciples ″ went backe: and now they walked not with him.
67Jesus therfore said to the Twelve: What, wil you also depart? 68Simon ″ Peter therfore answered him: Lord, to whom shal we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternal life. 69And we beleeve and have knowen that thou art Christ the Sonne of God. 70Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you the Twelve; and of you one is a Divel? 71And he meant Judas Iscariot, Simons sonne: for this same was to betray him, whereas he was one of the Twelve.
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. 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.
