6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for them to eat?”
6:6 He said this to test him, because Jesus himself knew what he was going to do.
6:7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
6:9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what help will they be among so many?”
6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
6:11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.
6:12 When they all had eaten enough, he said to the disciples, “Gather up the fragments that are left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
6:14 When the people saw the sign he had performed, they began to say, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
6:15 Then Jesus realized that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, so he again withdrew to the mountain by himself.
6:16 When evening came, the disciples went down to the sea,
6:17 got into a boat, and set out across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.
6:18 The sea then became rough because a strong wind had started to blow.
6:19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat, and they were terrified.
6:20 But he said to them, “It is I. Do not be afraid!”
6:21 They were ready to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately reached the shore toward which they were heading.
6:22 The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea realized that there had only been one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples; rather, the disciples had left by themselves.
6:23 Then some boats from Tiberias came near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
6:24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
6:25 When the people found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
6:26 Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you came looking for me not because you have seen signs but because you ate the loaves and your hunger was satisfied.
6:27 Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”
6:28 Then they asked him, “What must we do if we are to carry out the works of God?”
6:29 Jesus replied, “This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent.”
6:30 They asked him further, “What sign can you give us that we can see and come to believe in you? What work will you do?
6:31 Our ancestors ate manna in the desert. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
6:32 Jesus replied, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven. It is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
6:33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
6:34 “Sir,” they begged him, “give us this bread always.”
6:35 Jesus answered them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
6:36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet you do not believe.
6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never turn away.
6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
6:39 “And this is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but that I should raise it up on the last day.
6:40 This indeed is the will of my Father: that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise them up on the last day.”
6:41 Then the Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
6:42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
6:43 “Stop murmuring among yourselves!” Jesus said.
6:44 “No one can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise up that person on the last day.
6:45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened to my Father and learned from him comes to me.
6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
6:47 “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
6:49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and yet they died.
6:50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat it and not die.
6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.”
6:52 Then the Jews started to argue among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
6:53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
6:54 Whoever feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
6:55 For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.
6:56 “Whoever feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I dwell in him.
6:57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so whoever feeds upon me will live because of me.
6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and nevertheless died, the one who feeds upon this bread will live forever.”
6:59 Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
6:60 After hearing his words, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard saying. Who can accept it?”
6:61 Aware of the complaints of his disciples, Jesus said to them, “Does this shock you?
6:62 What then if you were to behold the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?
6:63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh can achieve nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
6:64 But there are some among you who do not believe.” For from the very beginning Jesus knew who did not believe, and who would betray him.
6:65 He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to him by my Father.”
6:66 After this, many of his disciples turned away and no longer remained with him.
6:67 Then Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you also wish to leave?”
6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
6:69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
6:70 Jesus replied, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
6:71 He was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Although he was one of the Twelve, he would be the one who would betray him.
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