Bread Broken

Tune: Abridge

('Be thou my guardian and my guide')

John 6 v.47-51

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Jesus, He said, Truly, truly

They that believe on me

have everlasting life, it true

E'en reaching unto you

 

i am the bread of life, 'tis so

Your ancestors did know

And in desert did manna eat

That was their food, their meat

 

Though they are dead, yet I the bread

By which you may be fed

This is the bread which comes down, see

From heaven origin be

 

'Tis so that you may eat of such

The supply avails much

May eat of it, and shall not die

But know my presence nigh

 

I am the living bread, and I

Shall be your full supply

I came down form heaven, true bread

Imparts life to the dead

 

For if anyone eat this bread

They shall live e'er, He said

And this bread He gives is himself

The source of our fine wealth

 

He gives Himself for all to live

His body does He give

Upon the cross, then rose again

The Saviour for all men* (*mankind)