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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The Jewish Passover Festival was near. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Philip answered him, "It would take more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!" |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?" |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval." |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So they asked him, "What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Sir," they said, "always give us this bread." |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. |
40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day." |
41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." |
42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" |
43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. |
44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. |
45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. |
46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. |
47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. |
48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48I am the bread of life. |
49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. |
50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. |
51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." |
52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" |
53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. |
54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. |
55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. |
56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. |
57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. |
58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." |
59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. |
60[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 60On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" |
61[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? |
62[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! |
63[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 63The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life. |
64[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 64Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. |
65[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 65He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them." |
66[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 66From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. |
67[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 67"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. |
68[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 68Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. |
69[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 69We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God." |
70[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 70Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" |
71[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 71(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) |
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