Bible Readings - June 22, 2025

Reading I

Genesis 14:18-20

In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,

and being a priest of God Most High,

he blessed Abram with these words:

"Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

the creator of heaven and earth;

and blessed be God Most High,

who delivered your foes into your hand."

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Psalm 110:1-4

The LORD said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand

till I make your enemies your footstool."

The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:

"Rule in the midst of your enemies."

"Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;

before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you."

The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:

"You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."

Reading II

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,

that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,

took bread, and, after he had given thanks,

broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me."

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,

"This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,

you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

Gospel

John 6:41-57

The Jews murmured about him because he said,

“I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?

Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say,

‘I have come down from heaven’?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,

and I will raise him on the last day.

It is written in the prophets:

‘They shall all be taught by God.’

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God;

he has seen the Father.

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;

this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it

and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven;

whoever eats this bread will live forever;

and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,

“How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you,

unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man

and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,

and I will raise him on the last day.

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

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father,

so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.