John
6:
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
A) He
that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
B) 48 I am that bread
of life.
C) 49 Your fathers did eat
manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
D) 50 This
is the bread which cometh down from heaven,
C’) that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
B’) 51 I am the
living bread which came
down from heaven:
B’) if any man eat of
this bread, (Note
these are the same words as at the bottom)
A’) he shall live for
ever: (Note these are the same words as at the
bottom)
D) and the bread that I will give is my flesh,
(D can be both a completion of the Chiasmus above)
which I will give for the life
of the world. (or a continuation
of the larger form)
{52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves,
saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?}
{53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you,} {Interruption}
E) Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
F) a) 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
b) hath eternal life;
and I will raise him up at the last day.
G) 55 For my
flesh is meat indeed,
G’) and my
blood is drink indeed.
F’) a) 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood,
b) dwelleth in me, and I in him.
E’) 57 As the living Father
hath sent me, and I live by the Father:
so he
that eateth me, even he
shall live
by me.
D’) 58 This
is that bread which came down from heaven:
C’) not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead:
B’) he that eateth of this bread
A’) shall live for
ever.