6After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called).G3326G5023G2424G565G4008G2281G1056G50852A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick.G2532G4183G3793G190G846G3754G3708G846G4592G3739G4160G1909G7703Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples.G1161G2424G424G1519G3735G2532G1563G2521G3326G846G31014The time for the Passover Festival was near.G1161G3957G1859G2453G2258G14515Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?"G2424G3767G1869G3788G2532G2300G3754G4183G3793G2064G4314G846G3004G4314G5376G4159G59G740G2443G3778G53156(He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)G1161G5124G3004G3985G846G1063G846G1492G5101G3195G41607Philip answered, "For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread."G5376G611G846G1250G1220G740G714G3756G714G846G2443G1538G846G2983G5100G10248Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said,G1520G1537G846G3101G406G4613G4074G80G3004G8469"There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."G2076G1520G3808G5602G3739G2192G4002G2916G740G2532G1417G3795G235G5101G2076G5023G1519G511810"Make the people sit down," Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about five thousand men.G1161G2424G2036G4160G444G377G1161G2258G4183G5528G1722G5117G3767G435G377G706G5616G400011Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted.G1161G2424G2983G740G2532G2168G1239G3101G1161G3101G345G2532G3668G1537G3795G3745G230912When they were all full, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit."G1161G5613G1705G3004G846G3101G4863G2801G4052G3363G5100G62213So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.G3767G4863G2532G1072G1427G2894G2801G1537G4002G2916G740G3739G4052G97714Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, "Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"G3767G444G1492G4592G3739G2424G4160G3004G3754G3778G2076G230G4396G2064G1519G288915Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again to the hills by himself.G2424G3767G1097G3754G3195G2064G2532G726G846G726G2443G4160G846G935G402G3825G1519G3735G846G344116When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake,G1161G5613G3798G1096G846G3101G2597G1909G228117got into a boat, and went back across the lake toward Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus still had not come to them.G2532G1684G1519G4143G2064G4008G2281G1519G2584G2532G1096G2235G4653G2532G2424G2064G3756G2064G4314G84618By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water.G5037G2281G1326G3173G417G415419The disciples had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were terrified.G3767G1643G5613G4002G1501G2228G5144G4712G2334G2424G4043G1909G2281G2532G1096G1451G4143G2532G539920"Don't be afraid," Jesus told them, "it is I!"G1161G3004G846G1510G1473G5399G3361G539921Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.G3767G2309G2983G846G1519G4143G2532G2112G4143G1096G1909G1093G1519G3739G521722Next day the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that there had been only one boat there. They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.G1887G3793G3588G2476G4008G2281G1492G3754G2258G3756G243G4142G1563G1508G1565G1520G1519G3739G846G3101G1684G2532G3754G2424G4897G3756G4897G846G3101G1519G4142G235G846G3101G565G344123Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.G235G1161G2064G243G4142G1537G5085G1451G5117G3699G5315G740G2962G216824When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.G3753G3793G3767G1492G3754G2424G2076G3756G1563G3761G846G3101G846G2532G1684G1519G4143G2532G2064G1519G2584G2212G242425When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"G2532G2147G846G4008G2281G2036G846G4461G4219G1096G560226Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.G2424G611G846G2532G2036G281G281G3004G5213G2212G3165G3756G3754G1492G4592G235G3754G5315G1537G740G2532G552627Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."G2038G3361G1035G3588G622G235G1035G3588G3306G1519G166G2222G3739G5207G444G1325G5213G1063G5126G4972G2316G3962G497228So they asked him, "What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?"G3767G2036G4314G846G5101G4160G4160G2443G2038G2041G231629Jesus answered, "What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent."G2424G611G2532G2036G846G5124G2076G2041G2316G2443G4100G1519G3739G1565G64930They replied, "What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?G2036G3767G846G5101G4592G4160G4771G3767G2443G1492G2532G4100G4671G5101G203831Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "G2257G3962G5315G3131G1722G2048G2531G2076G1125G1325G846G740G1537G3772G531532"I am telling you the truth," Jesus said. "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven.G3767G2424G2036G846G281G281G3004G5213G3475G1325G5213G3756G740G1537G3772G235G3450G3962G1325G5213G228G740G1537G377233For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."G1063G740G2316G2076G3588G2597G1537G3772G2532G1325G2222G288934"Sir," they asked him, "give us this bread always."G3767G2036G4314G846G2962G3842G1325G2254G5126G74035"I am the bread of life," Jesus told them. "Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.G1161G2424G2036G846G1473G1510G740G2222G2064G4314G3165G3364G3983G2532G4100G1519G1691G1372G3364G4455G137236Now, I told you that you have seen me but will not believe.G235G2036G5213G3754G3708G2532G3708G3165G2532G4100G375637Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,G3956G3739G3962G1325G3427G2240G4314G1691G2532G2064G4314G3165G1544G3364G1544G185438because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.G3754G2597G1537G3772G3756G2443G4160G1699G2307G235G2307G3992G316539And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day.G1161G5124G2076G3962G2307G3588G3992G3165G2443G3956G3739G1325G3427G622G3361G1537G846G235G450G846G450G1722G2078G225040For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."G1161G5124G2076G2307G3992G3165G2443G3956G3588G2334G5207G2532G4100G1519G846G2192G166G2222G2532G1473G450G846G450G2078G225041The people started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."G2453G3767G1111G4012G846G3754G2036G1473G1510G740G3588G2597G1537G377242So they said, "This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?"G2532G3004G2076G3756G3778G2424G5207G2501G3739G3962G2532G3384G2249G1492G4459G3767G3778G3004G3754G2597G1537G377243Jesus answered, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.G2424G3767G611G2532G2036G846G1111G3361G3326G24044People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.G3762G1410G2064G4314G3165G3362G3962G3588G3992G3165G1670G846G2532G1473G450G846G450G2078G225045The prophets wrote, 'Everyone will be taught by God.' Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.G2076G1125G1722G4396G2532G2071G3956G1318G2316G3956G3767G191G2532G3129G3844G3962G2064G4314G316546This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father.G3756G3754G5100G3708G3962G1508G3588G3844G5607G2316G3778G3708G396247I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.G281G281G3004G5213G4100G1519G1691G2192G166G222248I am the bread of life.G1473G1510G740G222249Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.G5216G3962G5315G3131G1722G2048G2532G59950But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.G3778G2076G740G3588G2597G1537G3772G3363G5100G5315G1537G846G2532G3363G59951I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."G1473G1510G2198G740G3588G2597G1537G3772G1437G5100G5315G1537G5127G740G2198G1519G165G1161G2532G740G3739G1473G1325G2076G3450G4561G3739G1473G1325G5228G2222G288952This started an angry argument among them. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.G2453G3767G3164G4314G240G3004G4459G1410G3778G1325G2254G4561G531553Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.G3767G2424G2036G846G281G281G3004G5213G3362G5315G4561G5207G444G2532G4095G846G129G2192G3756G2222G1722G143854Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day.G5176G3450G4561G2532G4095G3450G129G2192G166G2222G2532G1473G450G846G450G2078G225055For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink.G1063G3450G4561G2076G1035G230G2532G3450G129G2076G4213G23056Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.G5176G3450G4561G2532G4095G3450G129G3306G1722G1698G2504G1722G84657The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.G2531G2198G3962G649G3165G2504G2198G1223G3962G2532G5176G3165G2548G2198G1223G169158This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."G3778G2076G740G3588G2597G1537G3772G3756G2531G5216G3962G5315G3131G2532G599G5176G5126G740G2198G1519G16559Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.G5023G2036G1722G4864G1321G1722G258460Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"G4183G3767G1537G846G3101G191G2036G3778G2076G4642G3056G5101G1410G191G84661Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, "Does this make you want to give up?G1161G2424G1492G1722G1438G3754G846G3101G1111G4012G5127G2036G846G5124G4624G520962Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?G3767G1437G2334G5207G444G305G3699G2258G438663What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.G2076G4151G2227G4561G3756G5623G3762G4487G3739G1473G2980G5213G2076G4151G2532G2076G222264Yet some of you do not believe." (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.)G235G1526G5100G1537G5216G3739G4100G3756G1063G2424G1492G1537G746G5101G1526G4100G3361G2532G5101G2076G3860G84665And he added, "This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so."G2532G3004G1223G5124G2046G5213G3754G3762G1410G2064G4314G3165G3362G5600G1325G846G1537G3450G396266Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.G1537G5127G4183G846G3101G565G1519G3694G2532G4043G3765G3326G84667So he asked the twelve disciples, "And you - -would you also like to leave?"G3767G2036G2424G1427G3361G2309G5210G2532G521768Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.G3767G4613G4074G611G846G2962G4314G5101G565G2192G4487G166G222269And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God."G2532G2249G4100G2532G1097G3754G4771G1488G5547G5207G2198G231670Jesus replied, "I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!"G2424G611G846G1586G3756G1473G1586G5209G1427G2532G1520G1537G5216G2076G122871He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For Judas, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, was going to betray him.G1161G3004G2455G2469G4613G1063G3778G3195G3860G846G5607G1520G1537G1427
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