John 6:1-32 ▼

1 After these things Jesus went away beyond the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),

2 and there was following Him a great multitude, because they were seeing His signs that He was doing on the ailing;

3 and Jesus went up to the mountain, and He was sitting with His disciples there,

4 and the Passover was near, the celebration of the Jews.

5 Jesus then having lifted up [His] eyes and having seen that a great multitude comes to Him, says to Philip, “From where will we buy loaves, that these may eat?”

6 And this He said, trying him, for He Himself had known what He was about to do.

7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little”;

8 one of His disciples—Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter—says to Him,

9 “There is one little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes, but these—what are they to so many?”

10 And 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,

11 and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed [them] to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.

12 And when they were filled, He says to His disciples, “Gather together the broken pieces that are left over, that nothing may be lost”;

13 they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

14 The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is coming into the world”;

15 Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to seize Him by force that they may make Him king, retired again to the mountain Himself alone.

16 And when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

17 and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come to them,

18 the sea also—a great wind blowing—was being raised,

19 having pushed onward, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid;

20 and He says to them, “I AM; do not be afraid”;

21 they were willing then to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

22 On the next day, 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 did not go in with His disciples into the little boat, but His disciples went away alone

23 (and other little boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate the bread, the LORD having given thanks),

24 when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor His disciples, they also entered into the boats themselves, and came 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 that is remaining to continuous life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for the Father sealed Him—[even] God.”

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

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

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

31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, according as it is having been written: He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.”

32 Jesus, therefore, said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of Heaven;