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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 6 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > John 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/5.htm" title="John 5">◄</a> John 6 <a href="../john/7.htm" title="John 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Jesus Feeds Five Thousand</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 14:13-21">Matthew 14.13-21</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 6:30-44">Mark 6.30-44</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 9:10-17">Luke 9.10-17</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_1"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.1" class="v43_6_1">1</span>After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called). </span><span class="v43_6_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.2" class="v43_6_2">2</span>A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick. </span><span class="v43_6_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.3" class="v43_6_3">3</span>Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples. </span><span class="v43_6_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.4" class="v43_6_4">4</span>The time for the Passover Festival was near. </span><span class="v43_6_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.5" class="v43_6_5">5</span>Jesus 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?” ( </span><span class="v43_6_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.6" class="v43_6_6">6</span>He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.7" class="v43_6_7">7</span>Philip answered, “For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins<a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to buy enough bread.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.8" class="v43_6_8">8</span>Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said, </span><span class="v43_6_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.9" class="v43_6_9">9</span>“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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.10" class="v43_6_10">10</span>“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. </span><span class="v43_6_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.11" class="v43_6_11">11</span>Jesus 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. </span><span class="v43_6_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.12" class="v43_6_12">12</span>When they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit.” </span><span class="v43_6_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.13" class="v43_6_13">13</span>So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.14" class="v43_6_14">14</span>Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, “Surely this is the Prophet<a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> who was to come into the world!” </span><span class="v43_6_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.15" class="v43_6_15">15</span>Jesus 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.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Walks on the Water</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 14:22-33">Matthew 14.22-33</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 6:45-52">Mark 6.45-52</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.16" class="v43_6_16">16</span>When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake, </span><span class="v43_6_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.17" class="v43_6_17">17</span>got into a boat, and went back across the lake toward Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus still had not come to them. </span><span class="v43_6_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.18" class="v43_6_18">18</span>By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water. </span><span class="v43_6_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.19" class="v43_6_19">19</span>The disciples had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were terrified. </span><span class="v43_6_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.20" class="v43_6_20">20</span>“Don't be afraid,” Jesus told them, “it is I!” </span><span class="v43_6_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.21" class="v43_6_21">21</span>Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.</span></p><h3 class="s">The People Seek Jesus</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.22" class="v43_6_22">22</span>Next 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. </span><span class="v43_6_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.23" class="v43_6_23">23</span>Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. </span><span class="v43_6_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.24" class="v43_6_24">24</span>When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus the Bread of Life</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.25" class="v43_6_25">25</span>When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Teacher, when did you get here?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.26" class="v43_6_26">26</span>Jesus 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. </span><span class="v43_6_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.27" class="v43_6_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Do 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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.28" class="v43_6_28">28</span>So they asked him, “What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_29"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.29" class="v43_6_29">29</span>Jesus answered, “What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.30" class="v43_6_30">30</span>They replied, “What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? </span><span class="v43_6_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.31" class="v43_6_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.32" class="v43_6_32">32</span>“I am telling you the truth,” Jesus said. “What Moses gave you was not<a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.32!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven. </span><span class="v43_6_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.33" class="v43_6_33">33</span>For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_34"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.34" class="v43_6_34">34</span>“Sir,” they asked him, “give us this bread always.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_35"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.35" class="v43_6_35">35</span>“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. </span><span class="v43_6_36"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.36" class="v43_6_36">36</span>Now, I told you that you have seen me but will not believe. </span><span class="v43_6_37"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.37" class="v43_6_37">37</span>Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me, </span><span class="v43_6_38"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.38" class="v43_6_38">38</span>because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. </span><span class="v43_6_39"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.39" class="v43_6_39">39</span>And 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. </span><span class="v43_6_40"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.40" class="v43_6_40">40</span>For 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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_41"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.41" class="v43_6_41">41</span>The people started grumbling about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” </span><span class="v43_6_42"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.42" class="v43_6_42">42</span>So 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?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_43"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.43" class="v43_6_43">43</span>Jesus answered, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. </span><span class="v43_6_44"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.44" class="v43_6_44">44</span>People 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. </span><span class="v43_6_45"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.45" class="v43_6_45">45</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.45!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The prophets wrote, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’ Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me. </span><span class="v43_6_46"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.46" class="v43_6_46">46</span>This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father. </span><span class="v43_6_47"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.47" class="v43_6_47">47</span>I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life. </span><span class="v43_6_48"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.48" class="v43_6_48">48</span>I am the bread of life. </span><span class="v43_6_49"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.49" class="v43_6_49">49</span>Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died. </span><span class="v43_6_50"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.50" class="v43_6_50">50</span>But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die. </span><span class="v43_6_51"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.51" class="v43_6_51">51</span>I 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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_52"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.52" class="v43_6_52">52</span>This started an angry argument among them. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_53"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.53" class="v43_6_53">53</span>Jesus 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. </span><span class="v43_6_54"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.54" class="v43_6_54">54</span>Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day. </span><span class="v43_6_55"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.55" class="v43_6_55">55</span>For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink. </span><span class="v43_6_56"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.56" class="v43_6_56">56</span>Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. </span><span class="v43_6_57"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.57" class="v43_6_57">57</span>The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me. </span><span class="v43_6_58"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.58" class="v43_6_58">58</span>This, 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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_59"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.59" class="v43_6_59">59</span>Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Words of Eternal Life</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_60"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.60" class="v43_6_60">60</span>Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_61"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.61" class="v43_6_61">61</span>Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, “Does this make you want to give up? </span><span class="v43_6_62"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.62" class="v43_6_62">62</span>Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before? </span><span class="v43_6_63"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.63" class="v43_6_63">63</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.63!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> What 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. </span><span class="v43_6_64"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.64" class="v43_6_64">64</span>Yet 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.) </span><span class="v43_6_65"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.65" class="v43_6_65">65</span>And 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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_66"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.66" class="v43_6_66">66</span>Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more. </span><span class="v43_6_67"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.67" class="v43_6_67">67</span>So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you—would you also like to leave?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_68"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.68" class="v43_6_68">68</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.6.68!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. </span><span class="v43_6_69"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.69" class="v43_6_69">69</span>And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_6_70"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.70" class="v43_6_70">70</span>Jesus replied, “I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!” </span><span class="v43_6_71"><span class="reftext" id="John.6.71" class="v43_6_71">71</span>He 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.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.7: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">silver coins: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A silver coin was the daily wage of a rural worker (see Mt 20.2).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.14: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">the Prophet: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 1.21.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.32: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">What Moses gave you was not; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">It was not Moses who gave you.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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