John 6:1-24 ▼

1 At length Jesus passed over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias;

2 where a great multitude followed him, invited by the miraculous cures which they saw him perform.

3 Jesus therefore went up a mountain, where he sat down with his disciples.

4 for it was just before the passover, which is a feast of the Jews.

5 Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great company coming to him, said to Philip, where can we buy bread to feed this people?

6 (this he said to prove Philip: for he himself knew what he had to do.)

7 Philip answered him, two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient to furnish every one of them a little.

8 one of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

9 there is a lad here, who hath five barley-loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

10 but Jesus said, make the men sit down, and as there was much grass in the place, they sat down to the number of about five thousand.

11 then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were sate down; and likewise of the fishes, as much as they would.

12 when they were filled, he said to his disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

13 they gathered them therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained after they all had been eating.

14 The people, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, cry'd out, this is of a truth that prophet who was to come into the world.

15 but Jesus perceiving they designed to come and take him by force to make him a king, retired again upon a mountain all alone.

16 When even was come, his disciples went to the sea, and going on board a ship,

17 they cross'd the sea to Capernaum: now when it was dark, Jesus was not come to them:

18 but the sea ran high, by reason of the wind that blew hard.

19 so when they had rowed about five and twenty, or thirty furlongs, seeing Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship, they were frightned.

20 but he said to them, it is I, be not afraid.

21 then they readily received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they were bound.

22 The day following, the people who stay'd on the other side of the sea, perceiving that there had been only that single vessel in which his disciples were embark'd, that Jesus did not embark with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone: (however,

23 there came other barks from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks.)

24 the people likewise seeing that Jesus was not in those barks, nor his disciples, went on board them, and cross'd to Capernaum in quest of Jesus.