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John 6

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1 After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.

2 A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went, because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick.

3 Then Jesus climbed a hill and sat down with his disciples around him.

4 (It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration.)

5 Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?”

6 He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, “Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them!”

8 Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up.

9 “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?”

10 “Tell everyone to sit down,” Jesus said. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. (The men alone numbered about 5,000.)

11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted.

12 After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples, “Now gather the leftovers, so that nothing is wasted.”

13 So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

14 When the people saw him do this miraculous sign, they exclaimed, “Surely, he is the Prophet we have been expecting!”

15 When Jesus saw that they were ready to force him to be their king, he slipped away into the hills by himself.

16 That evening Jesus’ disciples went down to the shore to wait for him.

17 But as darkness fell and Jesus still hadn’t come back, they got into the boat and headed across the lake toward Capernaum.

18 Soon a gale swept down upon them, and the sea grew very rough.

19 They had rowed three or four miles when suddenly they saw Jesus walking on the water toward the boat. They were terrified,

20 but he called out to them, “Don’t be afraid. I am here! ”

21 Then they were eager to let him in the boat, and immediately they arrived at their destination!

22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the far shore saw that the disciples had taken the only boat, and they realized Jesus had not gone with them.

23 Several boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the Lord had blessed the bread and the people had eaten.

24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went across to Capernaum to look for him.

25 They found him on the other side of the lake and asked, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

26 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you understood the miraculous signs.

27 But don’t be so concerned about perishable things like food. Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that the Son of Man can give you. For God the Father has given me the seal of his approval.”

28 They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”

29 Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”

30 They answered, “Show us a miraculous sign if you want us to believe in you. What can you do?

31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

32 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven.

33 The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day.”

35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me.

37 However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

38 For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.

39 And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.

40 For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”

41 Then the people began to murmur in disagreement because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

43 But Jesus replied, “Stop complaining about what I said.

44 For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up.

45 As it is written in the Scriptures, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

46 (Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only I, who was sent from God, have seen him.)

47 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life.

48 Yes, I am the bread of life!

49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.

50 Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”

52 Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.

53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.

54 But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day.

55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

57 I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.

58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”

59 He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”

61 Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining, so he said to them, “Does this offend you?

62 Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again?

63 The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

64 But some of you do not believe me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning which ones didn’t believe, and he knew who would betray him.)

65 Then he said, “That is why I said that people can’t come to me unless the Father gives them to me.”

66 At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him.

67 Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?”

68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.

69 We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God. ”

70 Then Jesus said, “I chose the twelve of you, but one is a devil.”

71 He was speaking of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, one of the Twelve, who would later betray him.

Common English Bible CEB

1 After this Jesus went across the Galilee Sea (that is, the Tiberias Sea).

2 A large crowd followed him, because they had seen the miraculous signs he had done among the sick.

3 Jesus went up a mountain and sat there with his disciples.

4 It was nearly time for Passover, the Jewish festival.

5 Jesus looked up and saw the large crowd coming toward him. He asked Philip, "Where will we buy food to feed these people?"

6 Jesus said this to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, "More than a half year's salary worth of food wouldn't be enough for each person to have even a little bit."

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said,

9 "A youth here has five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that for a crowd like this?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there. They sat down, about five thousand of them.

11 Then Jesus took the bread. When he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, each getting as much as they wanted.

12 When they had plenty to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing will be wasted."

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves that had been left over by those who had eaten.

14 When the people saw that he had done a miraculous sign, they said, "This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world."

15 Jesus understood that they were about to come and force him to be their king, so he took refuge again, alone on a mountain.

16 When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake.

17 They got into a boat and were crossing the lake to Capernaum. It was already getting dark and Jesus hadn't come to them yet.

18 The water was getting rough because a strong wind was blowing.

19 When the wind had driven them out for about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water. He was approaching the boat and they were afraid.

20 He said to them, "I Am. Don't be afraid."

21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and just then the boat reached the land where they had been heading.

22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one boat had been there. They knew Jesus hadn't gone with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone alone.

23 Some boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they had eaten the bread over which the Lord had given thanks.

24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

26 Jesus replied, "I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted.

27 Don't work for the food that doesn't last but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Human One will give you. God the Father has confirmed him as his agent to give life."

28 They asked, "What must we do in order to accomplish what God requires?"

29 Jesus replied, "This is what God requires, that you believe in him whom God sent."

30 They asked, "What miraculous sign will you do, that we can see and believe you? What will you do?

31 Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

32 Jesus told them, "I assure you, it wasn't Moses who gave the bread from heaven to you, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

34 They said, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!"

35 Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But I told you that you have seen me and still don't believe.

37 Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and I won't send away anyone who comes to me.

38 I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.

39 This is the will of the one who sent me, that I won't lose anything he has given me, but I will raise it up at the last day.

40 This is my Father's will: that all who see the Son and believe in him will have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."

41 The Jewish opposition grumbled about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

42 They asked, "Isn't this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose mother and father we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven'?"

43 Jesus responded, "Don't grumble among yourselves.

44 No one can come to me unless they are drawn to me by the Father who sent me, and I will raise them up at the last day.

45 It is written in the Prophets, And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him comes to me.

46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father.

47 I assure you, whoever believes has eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness and they died.

50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that whoever eats from it will never die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

52 Then the Jews debated among themselves, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

53 Jesus said to them, "I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Human One and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them.

57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me lives because of me.

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It isn't like the bread your ancestors ate, and then they died. Whoever eats this bread will live forever."

59 Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 Many of his disciples who heard this said, "This message is harsh. Who can hear it?"

61 Jesus knew that the disciples were grumbling about this and he said to them, "Does this offend you?

62 What if you were to see the Human One going up where he was before?

63 The Spirit is the one who gives life and the flesh doesn't help at all. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

64 Yet some of you don't believe."Jesus knew from the beginning who wouldn't believe and the one who would betray him.

65 He said, "For this reason I said to you that none can come to me unless the Father enables them to do so."

66 At this, many of his disciples turned away and no longer accompanied him.

67 Jesus asked the Twelve, "Do you also want to leave?"

68 Simon Peter answered, "Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

69 We believe and know that you are God's holy one."

70 Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil."

71 He was speaking of Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.