John Chapter 6 Vs 1-45
Multiplication of the Loaves.
*1a After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee [of Tiberias].*2A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.3Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.4The Jewish feast of Passover was near.b5* When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip,c "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?"6* He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.7Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages* worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit]."d8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,9"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves* and two fish; but what good are these for so many?"e10Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass* in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.f11Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted.g12When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted."13So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets* with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.14When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet,* the one who is to come into the world."h15Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.i
Walking on the Water.*16j When it was evening, his disciples went down to the sea,17embarked in a boat, and went across the sea to Capernaum. It had already grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.18The sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.19When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea* and coming near the boat, and they began to be afraid.k20But he said to them, "It is I.* Do not be afraid."21They wanted to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately arrived at the shore to which they were heading.
The Bread of Life Discourse.22* The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.23* Other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks.24When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.25And when they found him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"26Jesus answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.27Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life,* which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."l28So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?"29Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent."30So they said to him, "What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?m31* Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:n
'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
32So Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.o33For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
34p So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always."35* Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.q36But I told you that although you have seen [me], you do not believe.r37Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,38because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.s39And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it [on] the last day.t40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him [on] the last day."u
41The Jews murmured about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"42and 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'?"v43Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop murmuring* among yourselves.w44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.45It 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.