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So the men <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sat down, in number about five thousand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed <i>them</i> to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, <span class="red">“Gather up the leftover pieces so that nothing will be lost.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore when the people saw the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sign which He had done, they were saying, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” <p class="hdg">Jesus Walks on the Sea</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So Jesus, knowing that they were going to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and after getting into a boat, they <i>began to</i> cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then, when they had rowed about <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But He said to them, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><span class="red">“It is I; <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>do not be afraid.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So they were willing to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On the next day, the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but <i>that</i> His disciples had gone away alone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Other small boats came from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You come here?” <p class="hdg">I Am the Bread of Life</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus answered them and said, <span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, set His seal.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore they said to Him, “What should we do, so that we may work the works of God?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jesus answered and said to them, <span class="red">“This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘HE GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN TO EAT.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus then said to them, <span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">For the bread of God is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="red">Now this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”</span> <p class="hdg">Words to the Jews</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, <span class="red">“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, <span class="red">‘I have come down from heaven’</span>?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Jesus answered and said to them, <span class="red">“Stop grumbling among yourselves.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="red">No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="red">It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT BY GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="red">Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="red">Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="red">I am the bread of life.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="red">Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="red">This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="red">I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and also the bread which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>Then the Jews <i>began to</i> argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us <i>His</i> flesh to eat?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>So Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span><span class="red">He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span><span class="red">For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span><span class="red">He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span><span class="red">As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span><span class="red">This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”</span> <p class="hdg">Words to the Disciples</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard <i>this</i> said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>But Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were grumbling at this, said to them, <span class="red">“Does this cause you to stumble?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span><span class="red"><i>What</i> then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span><span class="red">The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-64.htm"><b>64</b></a></span><span class="red">But there are some of you who do not believe.”</span> For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>betray Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-65.htm"><b>65</b></a></span>And He was saying, <span class="red">“For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”</span> <p class="hdg">Peter Confesses Jesus Is the Christ</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-66.htm"><b>66</b></a></span>As a result of this many of His disciples <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>went away and were not walking with Him anymore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-67.htm"><b>67</b></a></span>So Jesus said to the twelve, <span class="red">“Do you also want to go?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-68.htm"><b>68</b></a></span>Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-69.htm"><b>69</b></a></span>And we have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-70.htm"><b>70</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="red">“Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and <i>yet</i> one of you is a devil?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/6-71.htm"><b>71</b></a></span>Now He was speaking of Judas <i>the son</i> of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>was going to betray Him.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>attesting miracles</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> A Roman silver coin, approx. a laborer’s daily wage<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>recline(d)</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>recline(d)</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>attesting miracle</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Approx. 2.8-3.5 mi. or 4.6-5.5 km; a stadion was about 607 ft. or 185 m<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>I am</i> He, cf. 4:26; 8:18, 24, 28; 13:19; 18:5, 6<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>stop being afraid</i><br><span class="fnverse">33</span> Or <i>He who comes</i><br><span class="fnverse">64</span> Or <i>hand Him over</i><br><span class="fnverse">66</span> Lit <i>went away to what was previous</i><br><span class="fnverse">71</span> Or <i>was intending to</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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