John 6
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The Fourth Sign: Feeding 5,000
1After # Mt 14:13-21; Mk 6:30-44; Lk 9:10-17 this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee # Mk 1:16 (or Tiberias # Jn 6:23; 21:1). 2And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick. 3So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.
4Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near. 5Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, # Mk 1:45 He asked Philip, # Mk 3:18 “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat? ” 6He asked this to test him, # Ex 15:25 for He Himself knew what He was going to do.
7Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii # Mt 18:28 worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”
8One of His disciples, Andrew, # 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 # Mt 16:17 Peter’s # 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? ”
10Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”
There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000. # 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. # 2Kg 4:42-44
12When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.” # Lk 15:4 13So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
14When the people saw the sign # Other mss read signs He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet # Dt 18:15 who was to come # Mt 11:3; Lk 7:19-20; Rm 5:14; Heb 10:37 into the world! ” # Jn 18:37 15Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, # Jn 19:21 He withdrew again # A previous withdrawal is mentioned in Mk 6:31-32, an event that occurred just before the feeding of the 5,000. to the mountain by Himself.
The Fifth Sign: Walking on Water
16When # 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. # Lk 10:15 Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them. 18Then a high wind arose, and the sea began to churn. 19After they had rowed about three or four miles, # Lit 25 or 30 stadia ; 1 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. # Lit I am # 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 knew there had been only one boat. # Other mss add into which His disciples had entered # Jn 21:8 They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone. 23Some boats from Tiberias # Jn 6:1; 21:1 came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave 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, # Jn 11:8 when did You get here? ”
26Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw # Or perceived the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27Don’t work for the food that perishes # Is 55:2 but for the food that lasts for eternal life, # Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48; 1Jn 2:25 which the Son of Man # Dn 7:13; Mk 2:10; Jn 6:53,62 will give you, because God the Father # 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 # Jn 5:36 of God — that you believe in the One He has sent.” # Mk 9:37; Jn 1:6
30“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You? ” they asked. “What are You going to perform? 31Our fathers ate the manna # Ex 16:31 in the wilderness, # Rv 12:6 just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” # Bread miraculously provided by God for the Israelites # Ex 16:4,15; Ps 78:24 # Ex 16:4; Ps 78:24
32Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses # Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real 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 # Jn 8:24 the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me # Lk 14:26 will ever be hungry, # Jn 4:14; Rv 7:16 and no one who believes in Me # 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 # Jn 7:37 again. 36But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, # 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. # Mt 24:22 38For I have come down from heaven, # 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 will, but the will of Him # 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 # Lk 18:33 them up on the last day. 40For this is the will of My Father: # Mt 11:27 that everyone who sees the Son # Jn 5:19 and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise # Mt 16:21 him up on the last day.”
41Therefore the Jews started complaining 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, # Jn 1:45 whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”
43Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves. 44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws # Or brings, or leads ; see the use of this Gk verb in Jn 12:32; 21:6; Ac 16:19; Jms 2:6. him, and I will raise him up on the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: # Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52 And they will all be taught by God. # Is 54:13 # Is 54:13 Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father # 1Co 2:13; 1Th 4:9; 1Jn 2:20 comes to Me — 46not that anyone has seen the Father # Ex 33:20; Jn 5:47 except the One who is from God. # Jn 16:27 He has seen the Father. # Lk 10:22; Jn 8:38; 14:9
47“I assure you: Anyone who believes # Other mss add in Me has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna # Ex 16:12-36 in the wilderness, # 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. # Jn 11:26 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live # Php 1:21 forever. # Rv 4:9 The bread that I will give for the life # Jn 5:26; 6:53 of the world is My flesh.” # Php 3:3; Heb 10:10
52At that, the Jews argued # 2Tm 2:24 among themselves, # Jn 9:16; 10:19 “How can this man give us His flesh to eat? ”
53So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man # Mk 2:10 and drink His blood, # Heb 9:12 you do not have life in yourselves. 54Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood # Mt 26:26-29; Mk 14:22-25; Lk 22:15-20; 1Co 11:23-25 has eternal life, and I will raise # Mt 16:21 him up on the last day, 55because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. 56The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him. # Jn 15:4-5; 1Jn 3:24; 4:13-16 57Just as the living # 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 # Php 1:21; 1Pt 1:18 because of Me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna # Other mss omit the manna your fathers ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.” # Rv 4:9
59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue # Jms 2:2 in Capernaum. # Lk 10:15
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept # Lit hear it? ”
61Jesus, knowing in Himself # 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 complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? 62Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man # Mk 2:10 ascending # Jn 3:13; 20:17; Ac 1:9 to where He was before? 63The Spirit # 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 # Jn 16:30; Ac 26:4 those who would not # Other mss omit not believe and the one who would betray # Mt 10:4; Jn 13:21 Him.) 65He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me # Lk 14:26 unless it is granted to him by the Father.”
66From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him. 67Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, # Mk 11:11 “You don’t want to go away too, do you? ”
68Simon Peter # Lk 6:14 answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life. 69We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God! ” # Other mss read You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God # Mk 1:24
70Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? # Jn 13:18 Yet one of you is the Devil! ” # Mt 4:1,10; Jn 13:2,27; Ac 13:10 71He was referring to Judas, # Mk 3:19 Simon Iscariot’s son, # Other mss read Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son # Lit Judas, of Simon Iscariot one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray # Mt 10:4; Jn 13:21 Him.
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John 6
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1After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),
2and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;
3and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,
4and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.
5Jesus then having lifted up [his] eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, ‘Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?’ —
6and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
7Philip answered him, ‘Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;’
8one of his disciples — Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter — saith to him,
9‘There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these — what are they to so many?’
10And Jesus said, ‘Make the men to sit down;’ and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,
11and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.
12And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, ‘Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;’
13they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.
14The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said — ‘This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;’
15Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.
16And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
17and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,
18the sea also — a great wind blowing — was being raised,
19having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;
20and he saith to them, ‘I am [he], be not afraid;’
21they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.
22On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one — that into which his disciples entered — and that Jesus went not in with his disciples into the little boat, but his disciples went away alone,
23(and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),
24when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;
25and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?’
26Jesus answered them and said, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;
27work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life ageduring, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal — [even] God.’
28They said therefore unto him, ‘What may we do that we may work the works of God?’
29Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.’
30They said therefore to him, ‘What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?
31our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.’
32Jesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;
33for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.’
34They said, therefore, unto him, ‘Sir, always give us this bread.’
35And Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst — at any time;
36but I said to you, that ye also have seen me, and ye believe not;
37all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,
38because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.
39‘And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;
40and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.’
41The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;’
42and they said, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one — Out of the heaven I have come down?’
43Jesus answered, therefore, and said to them, ‘Murmur not one with another;
44no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
45it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;
46not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.
47‘Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;
48I am the bread of the life;
49your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
50this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.
51‘I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live — to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.’
52The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, ‘How is this one able to give us [his] flesh to eat?’
53Jesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
54he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
55for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
56he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
57‘According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
58this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live — to the age.’
59These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
60many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, ‘This word is hard; who is able to hear it?’
61And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, ‘Doth this stumble you?
62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?
63the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
64but there are certain of you who do not believe;’ for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,
65and he said, ‘Because of this I have said to you — No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.’
66From this [time] many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,
67Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, ‘Do ye also wish to go away?’
68Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, ‘Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;
69and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.’
70Jesus answered them, ‘Did not I choose you — the twelve? and of you — one is a devil.
71And he spake of Judas, Simon's [son], Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.
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