John 6:1-21 ▼

1 After this wente Iesus ouer the see vnto the cite Tiberias in Galilee.

2 And moch people folowed him, because they sawe the tokens that he dyd vpon the which were diseased.

3 But Iesus wete vp in to a mountayne, and there he sat with his disciples.

4 And Easter ye feast of the Iewes was nye.

5 Then Iesus lift vp his eyes, and sawe yt there came moch people vnto him, and he sayde vnto Philippe: Whence shal we bye bred, yt these maye eate?

6 But this he sayde to proue him, for he himself knewe, what he wolde do.

7 Philippe answered him: Two hundreth peny worth of bred is not ynough amonge the, yt euery one maye take a litle.

8 The sayde vnto hi one of his disciples, Andrew ye brother of Symo Peter:

9 There is a lad here, yt hath fyue barlye loaues, and two fishes, but what is that amoge so many?

10 Iesus sayde: Make the people syt downe. There was moch grasse in the place. Then they sat the downe, aboute a fyue thousande men.

11 Iesus toke the loaues, thanked, and gaue them to the disciples: the disciples (gaue) to them that were set downe. Likewyse also of the fishes as moch as they wolde.

12 Whan they were fylled, he sayde vnto his disciples: Gather vp the broken meate that remayneth, that nothinge be lost.

13 The they gathered, and fylled twolue baskettes with the broke meate, that remayned of the fyue barlye loaues, vnto them which had eaten.

14 Now whan the men sawe the token yt Iesus dyd, they saide: This is of a trueth the Prophet, yt shulde come into the worlde.

15 Whan Iesus now perceaued that they wolde come, and take him vp, to make him kynge, he gat him awaye agayne in to a mountayne himself alone.

16 At euen wente his disciples downe to ye see,

17 and entred in to the shippe, and came to the other syde of ye see vnto Capernau. And it was darcke allready. And Iesus was not come to the.

18 And ye see arose thorow a greate wynde.

19 Now whan they had rowed vpo a fyue and twetie or thirtie furlonges, they sawe Iesus goinge vpon the see, and came nye to the shippe. And they were afrayed.

20 But he sayde vnto them: It is I, be not afrayed.

21 Then wolde they haue receaued him in to ye shippe. And immediatly ye shippe was at the londe whither they wente.