John 6 — FBV
6Verse 1Some time later Jesus left to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also known as the Sea of Tiberias).Verse 2A large crowd was following him, for they'd seen his miracles of healing.Verse 3Jesus went up a hill and sat down there with his disciples.Verse 4The time for the Jewish festival of the Passover was approaching.Verse 5When Jesus looked up, and saw a large crowd coming towards him, he asked Philip, “Where can we buy bread to feed these people?”Verse 6He only asked this to see how Philip would respond, because Jesus already knew what he was going to do.Verse 7“Two hundred silver coins+wouldn't buy enough bread to give everyone only a little,” Philip replied.Verse 8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.Verse 9“There's a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what good is that when there are so many people?”Verse 10“Have everybody sit down,” Jesus said. There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down, the men numbering around five thousand.Verse 11Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, and had it handed out to the people as they sat there. Then he did the same with the fishes, making sure the people had as much as they wanted.Verse 12Once they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Collect what's left over so nothing is wasted.”Verse 13So they collected and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves the people had eaten.Verse 14When the people saw this miracle, they said, “Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world.”Verse 15Jesus realized that they were about to force him to become their king, so he left them and went up into the hills to be by himself.Verse 16When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,Verse 17climbed into a boat, and headed across the water towards Capernaum. By now it was night and Jesus had not joined them yet.Verse 18A strong wind began blowing and the sea grew rough.Verse 19When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, coming towards the boat. They were very frightened.Verse 20“Don't be afraid!” he told them. “It's me.”Verse 21Then they gladly took him into the boat, and immediately they reached the shore where they were going.Verse 22The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea noticed that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but they had left without him.Verse 23Then other boats arrived from Tiberias, landing near to the place where they'd eaten the bread after the Lord had blessed it.Verse 24Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went over to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.Verse 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”+Verse 26“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “you're looking for me because you ate as much bread as you wanted, not because you understood the miracles.Verse 27Don't be preoccupied about food that doesn't last, but concentrate on the lasting food of eternal life which the Son of man will give you, for God the Father has placed his seal of approval on him.”Verse 28So they asked him, “What should we be doing in order to do what God wants?”Verse 29Jesus replied, “What God wants you to do is to trust in the one he sent.”Verse 30“What miracle are you going to perform for us to see so we can trust you? What are you able to do?” they asked.Verse 31“Our forefathers ate manna in the desert in fulfillment of the Scripture that says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”+Verse 32“I tell you the truth, it wasn't Moses who gave you bread from heaven,” Jesus replied. “It's my Father who gives you the true bread of heaven.Verse 33For the bread of God is the one who comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”Verse 34“Lord, please give us this kind of bread all the time!” they said.Verse 35“I am the bread of life,” Jesus replied. “Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry again, and anyone who trusts in me will never be thirsty again.Verse 36But as I explained to you before, you have seen me,+but you still don't trust me.Verse 37All those the Father gives me will come to me, and I won't reject any of them.Verse 38For I came down from heaven not to do what I want, but to do what the one who sent me wants.Verse 39What he wants is for me not to lose anyone he has given to me, but for me to raise them up at the last day.+Verse 40What my Father wants is for everyone who sees the Son and trusts in him to have eternal life, and for me to raise them up at the last day.”Verse 41Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”Verse 42They said, “Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and his mother. So how can he now tell us, ‘I came down from heaven’?”Verse 43“Stop grumbling to each other,” Jesus said.Verse 44“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me attracts them, and I will raise them up at the last day.Verse 45As is written in Scripture by the prophets, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’+Everyone who listens to and learns from the Father comes to me.Verse 46Not that anyone has seen God, except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.Verse 47I tell you the truth: anyone who trusts in him has eternal life.Verse 48I am the bread of life.Verse 49Your forefathers ate manna in the desert but they still died.Verse 50But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, and anyone who eats it won't ever die.Verse 51I am the life-giving bread from heaven, and anyone who eats this bread will live forever. The bread is my flesh that I give so that the world may live.”Verse 52Then the Jews argued heatedly among themselves. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.Verse 53Jesus told them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you cannot truly live.Verse 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.Verse 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.Verse 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood remain in me, and I remain in them.Verse 57Just as the life-giving Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.Verse 58Now this is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind your forefathers ate and still died. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever.”Verse 59Jesus explained this while he was teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.Verse 60Many of his disciples when they heard it said, “This is hard to accept! Who can follow+it?”Verse 61Jesus saw that his disciples were complaining about this, so he asked them, “Are you offended by this?Verse 62Then what if you were to see the Son ascend to where he was before?Verse 63The Spirit gives life; the physical body doesn't do anything.+The words I've told you are spirit and life!Verse 64Yet there are some of you who don't trust me.” (Jesus had known from the very beginning who didn't trust him, and who would betray him.)Verse 65Jesus added, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is made possible+by the Father.”Verse 66From this time on many of Jesus' disciples gave up and no longer followed him.Verse 67Then Jesus asked the twelve disciples, “What about you? You don't want to leave as well, do you?”Verse 68Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who would we follow? You're the one who has the words of eternal life.Verse 69We trust in you, and we're convinced that you are God's Holy One.”Verse 70Jesus replied, “Didn't I choose you, the twelve disciples? Yet one of you is a devil.”Verse 71(Jesus was referring to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. He was the one of the twelve disciples who would betray Jesus.)