John 6

The Fourth Sign: Feeding of the Five Thousand

1After # 6:1–15 Mt 14:13–21; Mk 6:30–44; Lk 9:10–17 this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee # 6:1 Mk 1:16 (or Tiberias # 6:1 Jn 6:23; 21:1). 2A huge crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was performing by healing the sick. 3Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

4Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near. 5So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, # 6:5 Mk 1:45 he asked Philip, # 6:5 Mk 3:18 “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ” 6He asked this to test him, # 6:6 Ex 15:25 for he himself knew what he was going to do.

7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii # 6:7 A denarius = one day’s wage,# 6:7 Mt 18:28 worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

8One of his disciples, Andrew, # 6:8 Mt 4:18; 10:2; Mk 1:16,29; 3:18; 13:3; Lk 6:14; Jn 1:40,44; 12:22; Ac 1:13 Simon # 6:8 Mt 16:17 Peter’s # 6:8 Lk 6:14; Ac 10:32 brother, said to him, 9“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish — but what are they for so many? ”

10Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand. # 6:10 Mt 14:21 11Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks he distributed them to those who were seated — so also with the fish, as much as they wanted. # 6:11 2Kg 4:42–44

12When they were full, he told his disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.” # 6:12 Lk 15:4 13So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

14When the people saw the sign # 6:14 Other mss read signs he had done, they said, “This truly is the Prophet # 6:14 Dt 18:15 who is to come # 6:14 Mt 11:3; Lk 7:19–20; Rm 5:14; Heb 10:37 into the world.” # 6:14 Jn 18:37

15Therefore, when Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, # 6:15 Jn 19:21 he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

The Fifth Sign: Walking on Water

16When # 6:16–21 Mt 14:22–36; Mk 6:45–56 evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. # 6:17 Lk 10:15 Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them. 18A high wind arose, and the sea began to churn. 19After they had rowed about three or four miles, # 6:19 Lit twenty-five or thirty stadia; one stadion = 600 feet they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid. 20But he said to them, “It is I. # 6:20 Lit “I am,# 6:20 Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 8:24 Don’t be afraid.” 21Then they were willing to take him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

The Bread of Life

22The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat. # 6:22 Other mss add into which his disciples had entered,# 6:22 Jn 21:8 They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone. 23Some boats from Tiberias # 6:23 Jn 6:1; 21:1 came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, # 6:25 Jn 11:8 when did you get here? ”

26Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw # 6:26 Or perceived the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27Don’t work for the food that perishes # 6:27 Is 55:2 but for the food that lasts for eternal life, # 6:27 Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48; 1Jn 2:25 which the Son of Man # 6:27 Dn 7:13; Mk 2:10; Jn 6:53,62 will give you, because God the Father # 6:27 1Co 8:6; 15:24; Eph 5:20 has set his seal of approval on him.”

28“What can we do to perform the works of God? ” they asked.

29Jesus replied, “This is the work # 6:29 Jn 5:36 of God — that you believe in the one he has sent.” # 6:29 Mk 9:37; Jn 1:6

30“What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you? ” they asked. “What are you going to perform? 31Our ancestors ate the manna # 6:31 Ex 16:31 in the wilderness, # 6:31 Rv 12:6 just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” # 6:31 Ex 16:4; Ps 78:24,# 6:31 Ex 16:4,15; Ps 78:24

32Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses # 6:32 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

35 “I am # 6:35 Jn 8:24 the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me # 6:35 Lk 14:26 will ever be hungry, # 6:35 Jn 4:14; Rv 7:16 and no one who believes in me # 6:35 Mt 18:6; Mk 9:42; Jn 6:35; 7:38; 11:25–26; 12:44,46; 14:12; 16:9 will ever be thirsty # 6:35 Jn 7:37 again. 36But as I told you, you’ve seen me, # 6:36 Other mss omit me and yet you do not believe. 37Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out. # 6:37 Mt 24:22 38For I have come down from heaven, # 6:38 Ex 3:8; Pr 30:4; Dn 4:13,23; Mt 28:2; Jn 1:51; 3:13; Eph 4:10; Rv 10:1; 18:1; 20:1 not to do my own will, but the will of him # 6:38 Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 who sent me. 39This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise # 6:39 Lk 18:33 them up on the last day. 40For this is the will of my Father: # 6:40 Mt 11:27 that everyone who sees the Son # 6:40 Jn 5:19 and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise # 6:40 Mt 16:21 him up on the last day.”

41Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, # 6:42 Jn 1:45 whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”

43Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws # 6:44 Or brings, orleads him, and I will raise him up on the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: # 6:45 Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52 And they will all be taught by God. # 6:45 Is 54:13,# 6:45 Is 54:13 Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father # 6:45 1Co 2:13; 1Th 4:9; 1Jn 2:20 comes to me — 46not that anyone has seen the Father # 6:46 Ex 33:20; Jn 5:47 except the one who is from God. # 6:46 Jn 16:27 He has seen the Father. # 6:46 Lk 10:22; Jn 8:38; 14:9

47 “Truly I tell you, anyone who believes # 6:47 Other mss add in me has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna # 6:49 Ex 16:12–36 in the wilderness, # 6:49 Rv 12:6 and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. # 6:50 Jn 11:26 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live # 6:51 Php 1:21 forever. # 6:51 Rv 4:9 The bread that I will give for the life # 6:51 Jn 5:26; 6:53 of the world is my flesh.” # 6:51 Php 3:3; Heb 10:10

52At that, the Jews argued # 6:52 2Tm 2:24 among themselves, # 6:52 Jn 9:16; 10:19 “How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ”

53So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man # 6:53 Mk 2:10 and drink his blood, # 6:53 Heb 9:12 you do not have life in yourselves. 54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood # 6:54 Mt 26:26–29; Mk 14:22–25; Lk 22:15–20; 1Co 11:23–25 has eternal life, and I will raise # 6:54 Mt 16:21 him up on the last day, 55because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. # 6:56 Jn 15:4–5; 1Jn 3:24; 4:13–16 57Just as the living # 6:57 Mt 25:31–46; Heb 10:31 Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live # 6:57 Php 1:21; 1Pt 1:18 because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna # 6:58 Gk text lacks the manna your ancestors ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.” # 6:58 Rv 4:9

59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue # 6:59 Jms 2:2 in Capernaum. # 6:59 Lk 10:15

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept # 6:60 Lit hear it? ”

61Jesus, knowing in himself # 6:61 Mk 10:32; Jn 1:47–48; 2:24–25; 4:17–18; 9:3; 11:4,11; 13:10–11,38 that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? 62Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man # 6:62 Mk 2:10 ascending # 6:62 Jn 3:13; 20:17; Ac 1:9 to where he was before? 63The Spirit # 6:63 Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22 is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning # 6:64 Jn 16:30; Ac 26:4 those who did not # 6:64 Other mss omit not believe and the one who would betray # 6:64 Mt 10:4; Jn 13:21 him.) 65He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me # 6:65 Lk 14:26 unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

66From that moment # 6:66 Or Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him. 67So Jesus said to the Twelve, # 6:67 Mk 11:11 “You don’t want to go away too, do you? ”

68Simon Peter # 6:68 Lk 6:14 answered, “Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.” # 6:69 Other mss read you are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God,# 6:69 Mk 1:24

70Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? # 6:70 Jn 13:18 Yet one of you is a devil.” # 6:70 Mt 4:1,10; Jn 13:2,27; Ac 13:10 71He was referring to Judas, # 6:71 Mk 3:19 Simon Iscariot’s son, # 6:71 Or Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray # 6:71 Mt 10:4; Jn 13:21 him.

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Yochanan 6

1After these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach departed beyond Lake Kinneret (Lake Tiberias). 2And a riezige (sizable) multitude was following him, because they were seeing the otot (miraculous signs) which he was doing on the cholim (the ones being ill). 3And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to the mountain, and there he was sitting with his talmidim. 4Pesach was near at hand, the Chag (Jewish Feast). 5Therefore, having lifted up his eyes, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw that a great multitude is coming to him, and he says to Philippos, From where may we buy lechem that these ones may eat? 6But he was saying this to test Philippos, for he himself knew what he was about to do. 7In reply, Philippos said, Two hundred denarii worth of lechem would not be enough that each one may take a little okhel. 8One of his talmidim, Andrew, ach of Shim'on Kefa, says to him, 9There is a na'ar (lad) here who has five barley loaves and two dagim (fish), but what are these for so many?#6:9 2Kgs 4:43 10Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Instruct the anashim (men) to recline. Now there was much grass in the area. Therefore the anashim reclined, their number being about chameshet alafim. 11Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the loaves and, having made the bracha, distributed to the ones bimesibba (reclining); likewise also he distributed of the dagim (fish) as much as they were wanting. 12Now when they were filled, he tells his talmidim, Gather the shirayim (Rebbeʼs leftovers), that nothing may be lost. 13Therefore, what they gathered from the five barley loaves filled Sheneym Asar (Twelve) baskets of shirayim left over by the ones having eaten. 14Therefore, the anashim, having seen what ot (miraculous sign) he did, were saying, This one is beemes the Navi, Hu HaBah, the one coming into the Olam Hazeh.#6:14 Dt 18:15,18

15Therefore, Yehoshua, having had da'as that they are about to come and to seize him that they might make him king by force, departed alone again to the mountain, withdrawing by himself.

16And as erev came, his talmidim went down to the sea. 17And having embarked into a sirah, they were going across the sea to K'far-Nachum. And choshech already had come and Yehoshua had not yet come to them. 18And the sea, as a great wind blew, was becoming aroused. 19Therefore, having rowed about esrim v'chamash or sheloshim stadia, they see Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach walking on the sea and coming near the sirah, and they were gefeirlich (horribly) frightened.#6:19 Job 9:8 20But he says to them, Ani Hu. Do not be afraid. 21Therefore, the talmidim were willing to receive him into the sirah. And immediately the sirah came to the shore to which they were going.

22On the next day the multitude that had stayed on the other side of Lake Kinneret saw that there had been only one sirah with which to cross the sea. They knew that Yehoshua had not embarked with his talmidim in that sirah, but that his talmidim had departed by themselves. 23Then some sirot (boats) came ashore from Tiberias and landed near the area where they ate the lechem after Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu had made the bracha. 24Therefore, when the multitude saw Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is not there, nor his talmidim, they embarked into the sirot and came to K'far-Nachum, seeking Yehoshua.

25And having found him across the sea, they said to him, Rebbe, when did you come here? 26In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, omein, I say to you, you are seeking me not because you saw otot (miraculous signs), but because you ate of the loaves and were glutted. 27Do not work for the okhel that is perishing, but for the okhel remaining to Chayyei Olam, which the Bar Enosh#6:27 Moshiach will give to you, for Elohim HaAv has set His chotam (seal) on this one.#6:27 Isa 55:2 28Therefore, they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, What may we do that we may work the pe'ulot Hashem? 29In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, This is the mitzvah of Hashem, that you may believe in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach whom Hashem has sent. 30They said, therefore, to him, What ot (sign) then do you perform that we may see and may have emunah in you? What work do you do? 31Avoteinu ate the manna in the wilderness,#6:31 Num 11:7-9; Ex 16:4,15; Neh 9:15 as it has been written, LECHEM from SHOMAYIM he gave them to eat.#6:31 Ps 78:24; 105:40 32Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Omein, omein, I say to you, it was not Moshe who has given you the lechem out of Shomayim, but HaAv of me gives you the lechem ha'amitti (the true bread) out of Shomayim. 33For the lechem of Hashem is that which comes down out of Shomayim and giving Chayyim (Life) to HaOlam. 34Therefore, they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, always give us this lechem.

35Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Ani Hu#6:35 Ex 3:14 the lechem haChayyim; the one coming to me never hungers, and the one with emunah in me will never thirst again. 36But I said to you that you have seen me and yet you do not have bitachon, you lack emunah. 37All which HaAv gives to me will come to me, and the one coming to me I will never turn away. 38For I have come down from Shomayim not that I may do my ratzon, but the ratzon of the One having sent me. 39Now this is the ratzon of the One Who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all which He has given me, but I will raise him up on the Yom HaAcharon (Last Day).#6:39 Isa 27:3; Jer 23:4 40For this is the ratzon of Avi: that everyone seeing the Ben#6:40 HaElohim Moshiach and believing in him may have Chayyei Olam, and on Yom HaAcharon I will raise him up.

41Therefore, those of Yehudah were murmuring about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, because he said, Ani Hu#6:41 Ex 3:14 the lechem having come down out of Shomayim.#6:41 Ex 16:4 42And they were saying, Is this man not Yehoshua Ben Yosef,#6:42 Ben Dovid and do we not know his Av and his Em? Now how does he say, Out of Shomayim I have come down.#6:42 Yn 1:1,14 43Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered and said to them, Do not grumble among yourselves. 44No one is able to come to me unless HaAv Who sent me should draw him, and I will raise him up on the Yom HaAcharon.#6:44 Jer 31:3; Hos 11:4 45It has been written in the Nevi'im, V'CHOL they LIMUDI HASHEM (They shall all be taught of G-d).#6:45 Isa 54:13; see Jer 31:33,34 Everyone having heard from HaAv and having learned comes to me. 46Not that anyone has seen HaAv except the one being sent from Hashem; this one has seen HaAv. 47Omein, omein, I say to you, the one having emunah has Chayyei Olam. 48Ani Hu the lechem haChayyim.#6:48 Num 14:23; Dt 1:35 49Your Avot ate in the wilderness the manna and died. 50This is the lechem coming down out of Shomayim, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.#6:50 Gn 3:22 51Ani hu the lechem haChai (the living bread) having come down out of Shomayim. If anyone eats of this lechem he will live l'olam v'ed. And, indeed, the lechem which I will give on behalf of the Chayyim (life) of HaOlam is the basar of me.#6:51 Ex 12:8

52Therefore, those of Yehudah were arguing with one another, saying, How is this man able to give us the basar of him to eat? 53Therefore, he said to them, Omein, omein, I say to you, unless you eat the#6:53 Seudas Moshiach Seh basar of the Bar Enosh and drink#6:53 the Kiddush Cup of the Brit Chadasha in his dahm, you do not have Chayyim (Life) in yourselves.#6:53 Ex 12:3; Isa 53:7 54The one feeding on my#6:54 Seh Elohim basar and drinking#6:54 Cup of Redemption in dahmi has Chayyei Olam and I will raise him up on the Yom HaAcharon.#6:54 Ruth 4:5,10 55For my basar is okhel emes (true food) and dahmi is shikuy emes (true drink). 56The one feeding on my basar and drinking dahmi abides in,#6:56 Isa 53:7; Ex 12:3 dwells in me and I in him.#6:56 Ex 12:22 57As HaAv HaChai sent me and I live because of HaAv, so also whoever is feeding on me even that one will live because of me. 58This is the lechem out of Shomayim having come down, not as the Avot ate and died; the one feeding on this lechem will live l'olam v'ed. 59These things he said in a shul while teaching in K'far-Nachum.

60Therefore, many of Moshiachʼs talmidim, having heard, said, Hard is this dvar torah. Who is able to hear it?#6:60 Isa 53:1 61And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having da'as in himself that his talmidim are grumbling about this, said to them, Does this cause a michshol for you? 62What if you behold the Bar Enosh ascending where he was Bereshis? 63The Ruach Hakodesh is that which is making alive, the basar does not profit anything. The devarim which I have spoken to you are as Ruach and they are as Chayyim (Life). 64But there are of you some who do not have emunah. For from Bereshis, he had da'as of whom are the ones not having emunah and who is the one betraying him. 65And he was saying, Because of this, I have told you that no one is able to come to me unless it has been bashert to him from HaAv.

66From this time, many of his talmidim fell away and no longer followed him as talmidim. 67Therefore, he said to the Sheneym Asar, Surely you do not want to depart also? 68In reply, Shim'on Kefa said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, to whom will we go? You have the divrei haChayyei Olam. 69And we have bitachon and have trusted with emunah and we have da'as that you are HaKadosh of Hashem#6:69 Isa 49:7 (the Holy One of G-d). 70In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Did I not choose you Sheneym Asar (Twelve)? And is one of you not a Satan? 71Now he was speaking of Yehudah Ben Shim'on from K'riot, for, though he was one of the Sheneym Asar, this one was about to betray Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

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