John 6:22-40

I Am the Bread of Life

22 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only ¹one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

23 Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord ²had given thanks.

24 ³So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and ⁴went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ⁵"Rabbi, when did you come here?"

26 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, ⁶you are seeking me, not because you saw ⁷signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

27 ⁸Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for ⁹the food that endures to eternal life, which ¹⁰the Son of Man will give to you. For on ¹¹him God the Father has ¹²set his seal."

28 Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing ¹³the works of God?"

29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, ¹⁴that you believe in him whom ¹⁵he has sent."

30 So they said to him, ¹⁶"Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

31 ¹⁷Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ¹⁸'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

32 Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is ¹⁹he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

34 They said to him, ²⁰"Sir, give us this bread always."

35 Jesus said to them, ²¹"I am the bread of life; ²²whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

37 ²³All that ²⁴the Father gives me will come to me, and ²⁵whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

38 For ²⁶I have come down from heaven, not to do ²⁷my own will but ²⁸the will of him ²⁹who sent me.

39 And ³⁰this is the will of him who sent me, ³¹that I should lose nothing of ³²all that he has given me, but ³³raise it up on the last day.

40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ³⁴looks on the Son and ³⁵believes in him ³⁶should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Cross References

• 1. John 21:8
• 2. ver. 11
• 3. For ver. 24, 25, [Matthew 14:34-36; Mark 6:53-56]
• 4. ver. 17, 59
• 5. See John 1:38
• 6. ver. 24
• 7. ver. 2
• 8. Isaiah 55:2
• 9. [ver. 35, 50, 51, 54, 58]
• 10. See Daniel 7:13
• 11. [John 5:36, 37; John 10:36]
• 12. [Ezekiel 9:4; Romans 4:11; 1 Corinthians 9:2; 2 Timothy 2:19]; See John 3:33
• 13. 1 Corinthians 15:58; Revelation 2:26
• 14. 1 John 3:23
• 15. See John 3:17
• 16. See Matthew 12:38
• 17. ver. 49, 58; Exodus 16:15; Numbers 11:7-9
• 18. Cited from Nehemiah 9:15; [Psalms 78:24, 25; Psalms 105:40; 1 Corinthians 10:3]
• 19. ver. 50
• 20. See John 4:15, 33
• 21. ver. 41, 48, 51; [ver. 58]
• 22. John 4:14; John 7:37; [John 5:40; Matthew 11:28; Revelation 7:16]
• 23. ver. 39; John 17:2
• 24. John 10:29; John 17:6, 9, 24
• 25. John 10:28; John 17:12
• 26. See John 3:13
• 27. See John 5:30
• 28. See John 5:30
• 29. See John 4:34
• 30. John 10:28, 29; Matthew 18:14
• 31. John 17:12; John 18:9
• 32. ver. 37
• 33. ver. 40, 44, 54; [John 11:25; 1 Corinthians 6:14]
• 34. John 12:45; John 14:17, 19
• 35. ver. 47; John 3:15, 16
• 36. ver. 27, 54; John 4:14