John 6:12-71 ▼

12 Now when they were filled, He says to His disciples, “Gather together the fragments having superabounded, so that nothing may be lost.”

13 So they gathered together and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five barley loaves that superabounded to those having eaten.

14 Therefore the men, having seen what sign He did, were saying, “This is truly the Prophet who is coming into the world.”

15 Therefore Jesus, having known that they are about to come and to seize Him so that they might make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.

16 Now as it became evening, His disciples went down to the sea,

17 and having entered into a boat, they were going to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And darkness already had come, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

18 And the sea was agitated by a great wind blowing.

19 Therefore, having rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

20 But He says to them, “I am He! Do not be afraid.”

21 Then they were willing to take Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

22 On the next day, the crowd was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that no other boat was there except one, and that Jesus did not go with His disciples into the boat, but His disciples went away alone.

23 (But boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given thanks).

24 Therefore when the crowd saw that Jesus is not there, nor His disciples, they themselves entered into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 And having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when have You come here?”

26 Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you?, you? seek Me not because you? saw signs, but because you? ate of the loaves and were satisfied.

27 Do not work for the food that is perishing, but for the food remaining unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you?; for God the Father sealed Him.”

28 Therefore they said to Him, “What may we do so that we may work the works of God?”

29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you? should believe in Him whom He sent.”

30 Therefore they said to Him, “Then what sign do You do, so that we may see and may believe You? What do You work?

31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

32 Therefore Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you?, Moses has not given you? the bread out of heaven, but My Father gives you? the true bread out of heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the One coming down out of heaven and giving life to the world.”

34 Therefore they said to Him, “Sir, always give us this bread.”

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one coming to Me never shall hunger, and the one believing in Me never will thirst at any time.

36 But I said to you? that you? have also seen Me and you? do not believe.

37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one coming to Me I shall never cast out.

38 For I have come down from heaven, not so that I may do My will, but the will of the One having sent Me.

39 Now this is the will of the One having sent Me, that all that He has given Me, I should lose none of it, but I will raise it up in the last day.

40 For this is the will of My Father, that everyone beholding the Son and believing in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.”

41 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him because He said, “I am the bread having come down out of heaven.”

42 And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does He say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”

43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble with one another.

44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father, the One having sent Me, should draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught of God.’ Everyone having heard from the Father and having learned comes to Me.

46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God; He has seen the Father.

47 Truly, truly, I say to you?, the one believing has eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your? fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50 This is the bread coming down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

51 I am the living bread having come down out of heaven. If anyone shall eat of this bread, he will live to the age. And the bread also that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

52 Therefore the Jews were arguing with one another, saying, “How is this One able to give us His flesh to eat?”

53 Therefore Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you?, unless you? shall eat the flesh of the Son of Man and shall drink His blood, you? do not have life in yourselves.

54 The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

56 The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, the one also feeding on Me, he also will live because of Me.

58 This is the bread having come down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one eating this bread will live to the age.”

59 He said these things teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 Therefore many of His disciples, having heard, said, “This word is difficult; who is able to hear it?”

61 But Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples are grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this cause you? to stumble?

62 Then what if you? may behold the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

63 It is the Spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you? are spirit and they are life.

64 But there are some of you? who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning who are those not believing and who it is who will betray Him.

65 And He was saying, “Because of this, I have said to you? that no one is able to come to Me unless it shall have been given to him from the Father.”

66 From this time many of His disciples went away to the back and no longer were walking with Him.

67 Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you? also want to go away?”

68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life.

69 And we have believed and have known that You are the Holy One of God.”

70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you?, the Twelve? And one of you? is a devil!”

71 Now He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot; for he, one of the Twelve, was about to betray Him.