¹After these things, Jesus went away across the sea of Galilee, of Tiberias, ²and a large crowd followed him, because they had seen his signs which he performed on the infirm. ³Then Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. ⁴Incidentally, the Passover was near, the Jews' festival. ⁵Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, and he said to Philip, “From where can we buy loaves of bread so that these may eat?” ⁶But he said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷Philip answered him, “Two hundred denaries' worth of bread would not suffice for them, so that each of them could take a little.” ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, ⁹“There is one little boy here who has five barley loaves and two cooked fish, but what is that for so many?” ¹⁰But Jesus said, “Have the men recline.” Now there was a lot of grass in the place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. ¹¹And Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to those reclining. And they did the same with the cooked fish – as much as they wanted. ¹²And when they were full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces which are left over so that nothing goes to waste.” ¹³So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets of pieces from the five barley loaves which those who had eaten had left over. ¹⁴Then when the men had seen the sign which Jesus had performed, they said, “This is truly the prophet who was to come into the world.” ¹⁵So Jesus, who knew that they would come and seize him to make him king, withdrew to the mountain alone. ¹⁶Then when evening had come, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷and they went on board a boat and were going across the sea to Capernaum. Now dark had already fallen, and Jesus had not come to them, ¹⁸and the sea was being stirred up, with a strong wind blowing. ¹⁹Then when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stades, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid. ²⁰But he said to them, “I am; do not be afraid.” ²¹Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the place which they were heading for. ²²The next day, the crowd who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there had been no other boat there, except the one which his disciples had boarded, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples had departed alone, ²³but that boats had come from Tiberias near to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves went into the boats and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus. ²⁵And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you arrive here?” ²⁶Jesus replied to them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the bread and had your fill. ²⁷Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures, leading to age-abiding life, which the son of man will give you. For the father, God, has sealed him.” ²⁸Then they said to him, “What should we do to do the works of God?” ²⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in him whom he has sent.” ³⁰Then they said to him, “What sign will you perform then for us to see and believe you? What will you perform? ³¹Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it stands written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” ³²Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴Then they said to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” ³⁵And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger at all, and he who believes in me will not ever thirst at all. ³⁶But I said to you, ‘Although you have seen me, you still don't believe.’ ³⁷Everything that the father gives me will come to me, and I will certainly not cast out him who comes to me. ³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of the father who sent me, that I should not lose any part of anything that he has given me, but that I should raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the son and believes in him should have age-abiding life, and that I should raise him up on the last day.” ⁴¹Then the Jews murmured about him, because he had said, “I am the bread which has come down from heaven.” ⁴²And they said, “Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How come, then, he says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³So Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. ⁴⁴No-one can come to me, unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It stands written in the prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ So everyone who hears from the father and has learnt comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the father, except him who is from God – he has seen the father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has age-abiding life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate manna in the desert and died. ⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person should eat it and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, he will live throughout the age. And moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” ⁵²Then the Jews contended with each other, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life in you. ⁵⁴He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has age-abiding life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink. ⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living father sent me, so I live because of the father. And as for him who eats me, he will also live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down from heaven, not comparable to how your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live throughout the age.” ⁵⁹He said these things in the synagogue while teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰Then many of his disciples who had heard him said, “This speech is hard. Who can listen to him?” ⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, “Does this offend you? ⁶²What, then, if you should see the son of man ascending to where he was before? ⁶³It is the spirit which makes alive; the flesh is of no benefit. The words which I am speaking to you are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe and who it was who would betray him. ⁶⁵And he said, “This is why I have said to you that no-one can come to me, unless it has been granted to him by my father.” ⁶⁶At this many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷Then Jesus said to the twelve, “You don't also wish to go away, do you?” ⁶⁸Then Simon Peter replied to him, “Lord, to whom could we go? You have the words of age-abiding life, ⁶⁹and we have believed, and know, that you are the Christ, the son of the living God.” ⁷⁰Jesus replied to them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.” ⁷¹He was speaking here of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For this man was going to betray him, being one of the twelve.

Reference(s) in Chapter 6: v.20 ↔ Exodus 3:14 ● v.31 ↔ Psalm 78:24 ● v.45 ↔ Isaiah 54:13, Jeremiah 31:33-34.