John 6:1-42 ▼

1 After these thynges, Iesus went his waye ouer the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

2 And a great multitude folowed hym, because they sawe his miracles whiche he dyd on them that were diseased.

3 And Iesus went vp into a mountayne, & there he sate with his disciples.

4 And the Passouer, a feast of ye Iewes, was nye.

5 When Iesus then lyft vp his eyes, and sawe a great company come vnto him, he saith vnto Philip: Whence shal we bye bread, that these may eate?

6 (This he sayde to proue hym: for he hym selfe knewe what he woulde do.)

7 Philip aunswered hym: Two hundred penie worth of bread are not sufficient for them, that euery man may take a litle.

8 One of his disciples, Andrewe, Simo Peters brother, sayth vnto hym:

9 There is a litle ladde here, whiche hath fyue barly loaues and two fisshes, but what are they among so many?

10 And Iesus sayde: Make the people syt downe. There was much grasse in the place. So the men sate downe, in number about fyue thousande.

11 And Iesus toke the bread, and when he had geue thankes, he gaue to the disciples, and the disciples to them yt were set downe, and lykewyse of the fisshes, as much as they woulde.

12 When they had eaten enough, he saide vnto his disciples: Gather vp the broke meate that remayneth, that nothyng be lost.

13 And they gathered it together, & fylled twelue baskettes with the broken meate of the fyue barly loaues, whiche broken meate remayned vnto them that had eaten.

14 Then those men, when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did, saide: This is of a trueth the same prophete that shoulde come into the worlde.

15 When Iesus therfore perceaued, that they would come and take him, to make hym kyng, he departed agayne into amountayne hym selfe alone.

16 And when euen was nowe come, his disciples went downe vnto the sea.

17 And gat vp into a shippe, and went ouer the sea, towardes Capernau: And it was nowe darke, and Iesus was not come to them.

18 And the sea arose, with a great wynde that blewe.

19 So, when they had rowed about 25 or 30 furlonges, they sawe Iesus walkyng on the sea, and drawyng nye vnto the shippe, and they were afrayde.

20 But he sayth vnto them: It is I, be not afrayde.

21 And they wyllyngly receaued hym into the shippe, and immediatly the shippe was at the lande whyther they went.

22 The day folowyng, when the people, whiche stoode on the other syde of the sea, sawe that there was none other shippe there, saue that one whereinto his disciples were entred, and that Iesus went not in with his disciples into the shippe, but that his disciples were gone awaye alone:

23 Howebeit there came other shippes fro Tiberias, nye vnto the place, where they dyd eate bread, after that the Lord had geuen thankes.

24 When the people therefore sawe that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also toke shippyng, and came to Capernaum, sekyng for Iesus.

25 And whe they had founde hym on the other side of the sea, they said vnto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hyther? Iesus aunswered them, and sayde:

26 Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, ye seke me, not because ye sawe the miracles, but because ye dyd eate of the loaues, & were fylled.

27 Labour not for the meate whiche perisheth, but for that whiche endureth vnto euerlastyng lyfe, which meate the sonne of man shall geue vnto you: For hym hath God the father sealed.

28 Then saide they vnto him: What shall we do, that we myght worke ye workes of God?

29 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: This is the worke of God, that ye beleue on hym whom he hath sent.

30 They said therfore vnto hym: What signe shewest thou then, yt we may see, & beleue thee? What doest thou worke?

31 Our fathers dyd eate Manna in the desert, as it is written: He gaue them bread from heauen to eate.

32 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, Moyses gaue you not yt bread fro heauen, but my father geueth you ye true bread fro heaue.

33 For the bread of God, is he which cometh downe from heauen, and geueth lyfe vnto the worlde.

34 Then sayde they vnto hym: Lorde, euermore geue vs this bread.

35 And Iesus sayde vnto them, I am the bread of lyfe: He that cometh to me, shall not hunger: and he that beleueth on me, shall neuer thirst.

36 But I say vnto you, that ye also haue seene me, and yet ye beleue not.

37 All that the father geueth me, shall come to me: and hym that commeth to me, I cast not away.

38 For I came downe from heauen, not to do that I wyll: but that he wyll, which hath sent me.

39 And this is the fathers wyll whiche hath sent me: that of all which he hath geuen me, I shal lose nothing, but rayse it vp agayne at the last day.

40 And this is the wyll of him yt sent me: that euery one which seeth the sonne, & beleueth on him, hath euerlastyng lyfe: And I wyll rayse him vp at ye last day.

41 The Iewes then murmured at him, because he sayde, I am the bread of life which came downe from heauen.

42 And they saide: Is not this Iesus, ye sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother we knowe? Howe is it then that he sayth, I came downe from heauen?