< John 6 >
1 After this, Jesus left to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also known as the Sea of Tiberias).
Afterward, Jesus crossed the sea of Galilee, also called of Tiberias;
2 A large crowd was following him, for they'd seen his miracles of healing.
and a great multitude followed him, because they had seen the miraculous cures which he had performed.
3 Jesus went up a hill and sat down there with his disciples.
And Jesus went up on a mountain; where he sat down with his disciples.
4 The time for the Jewish festival of the Passover was approaching.
Now the passover, the Jewish festival, was near.
5 When Jesus looked up, and saw a large crowd coming towards him, he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?”
Jesus, lifting up his eyes, and perceiving that a great multitude was flocking to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread to feed these people?
6 He only asked this to see how Philip would respond, because Jesus already knew what he was going to do.
(This he said to try him; for he knew himself, what he was to do.)
7 “Two hundred silver coins wouldn't buy enough bread to give everyone even just a little,” Philip replied.
Philip answered, Two hundred denarii would not purchase bread enough to afford every one a morsel.
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
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?”
Here is a boy who has five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many?
10 “Have everybody sit down,” Jesus said. There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down, the men numbering around five thousand.
Jesus said, Make the men recline. Now, there was much grass in the place. So they reclined; in number about five thousand.
11 Jesus 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.
And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed them to those who had reclined. He gave them also of the fishes, as much as they would.
12 Once they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Collect what's left over so nothing is wasted.”
When they had eat sufficiently, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing be lost.
13 So they collected and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves the people had eaten.
They, therefore, gathered, and with the fragments which the people had left of the five barley loaves, they filled twelve baskets.
14 When the people saw this miracle, they said, “Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world.”
When those men had seen the miracle which Jesus had wrought they said, This is certainly the prophet who comes into the world.
15 Jesus 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.
Then Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and carry him off, to make him king, withdrew again, alone, to the mountain.
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
In the evening, his disciples went to the sea,
17 climbed into a boat, and headed across the water towards Capernaum. By now it was night and Jesus had not joined them yet.
and having embarked, were passing by sea to Capernaum. It was now dark; and Jesus had not come to them.
18 A strong wind began blowing and the sea grew rough.
And the water was raised by a tempestuous wind.
19 When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, coming towards the boat. They were very frightened.
When they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they observed Jesus walking on the sea, very near the bark, and were afraid.
20 “Don't be afraid!” he told them. “It's me.”
But he said to them, It is I, be not afraid.
21 Then they gladly took him into the boat, and immediately they reached the shore where they were going.
Then they gladly received him into the bark; and the bark was immediately at the place whither they were going.
22 The 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.
On the next day, the people who were on the seaside, knowing that there had been but one boat there, and that Jesus went not into the boat with his disciples, who went alone,
23 Then other boats arrived from Tiberias, landing near to the place where they'd eaten the bread once the Lord had blessed it.
(other boats, however, arrived from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eat, after the Lord had given thanks; )
24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went over to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.
knowing, besides, that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, embarked, and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Having found him on the opposite shore, they said to him, Rabbi, when did you come hither?
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.
Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw miracles, but because you eat of the loaves, and were satisfied.
27 Don'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.” (aiōnios )
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures through eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for to him the Father, that is, God, has given his attestation. (aiōnios )
28 So they asked him, “What do we have to do in order to do what God wants?”
They asked him, therefore, What are the works which God requires us to do?
29 Jesus replied, “What God wants you to do is to trust in the one he sent.”
Jesus answered, This is the work which God requires--that you believe on him whom he has sent forth.
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.
They replied, What miracles, then, do you, that seeing it, we may believe you? What do you perform?
31 “Our forefathers ate manna in the desert in fulfillment of the Scripture that says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Our fathers eat the manna in the desert; as it is written, "He gave them bread of heaven to eat."
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.
Jesus then said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread of heaven: but my Father gives you the true bread of heaven:
33 For the bread of God is the one who comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”
for the bread of God is that which descends from heaven, and gives life to the world.
34 “Lord, please give us this kind of bread all the time!” they said.
They said, therefore, to him, Master, give us always this bread.
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.
Jesus answered, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me, shall never hunger; and he who believes on me, shall never thirst.
36 But as I explained to you before, you have seen me, but you still don't trust me.
But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe.
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and I won't reject any of them.
All the Father gives me, will come to me; and him who comes to me, I will not reject.
38 For I came down from heaven not to do what I want, but to do what the one who sent me wants.
For I descended from heaven to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
39 What 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.
Now, this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none of all he has given me, but raise the whole again at the last day.
40 What 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.” (aiōnios )
This is the will of him who sent me, that whoever recognizes the Son, and believes on him, should obtain eternal life, and that I should raise him again at the last day. (aiōnios )
41 Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
The Jews then murmured against him, because he said, I am the bread which descended from heaven:
42 They 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’?”
and they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How, then, does he say, I descended from heaven!
43 “Stop grumbling to each other,” Jesus said.
Jesus answered, Murmur not amongst yourselves:
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.
no man can come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, draw him; and him I will raise again at the last day.
45 As 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.
It is written in the prophets, "They shall be taught of God." Every one who has heard, and learned from the Father, comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen God, except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Not that any man, except him who is from God, has seen the Father.
47 I tell you the truth: anyone who trusts in him has eternal life. (aiōnios )
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes on me has eternal life. (aiōnios )
48 I am the bread of life.
I am the bread of life.
49 Your forefathers ate manna in the desert but they still died.
Your fathers eat the manna in the desert, and died.
50 But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, and anyone who eats it won't ever die.
Behold the bread which descended from heaven, that whosoever eats of it may not die.
51 I 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.” (aiōn )
I am the living bread, which descended from heaven. Whosoever eats of this bread, shall live forever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world. (aiōn )
52 Then the Jews argued heatedly among themselves. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
The Jews then debated among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Jesus 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.
Jesus, therefore, said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have not life in you.
54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. (aiōnios )
He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him again at the last day: (aiōnios )
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
for my flesh is truly meat, and my blood is truly drink.
56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood remain in me, and I remain in them.
He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I abide in him.
57 Just 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.
As the Father lives, who sent me; and I live by the Father; even so he, who feeds on me, shall live by me.
58 Now 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.” (aiōn )
This is the bread which descended from heaven. It is not like what your fathers eat, for they died: he that eats this bread, shall live for ever. (aiōn )
59 Jesus explained this while he was teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.
This discourse he spoke in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
60 Many of his disciples when they heard it said, “This is hard to accept! Who can follow it?”
Many of his disciples having heard it, said, This is hard doctrine; who can understand it?
61 Jesus saw that his disciples were complaining about this, so he asked them, “Are you offended by this?
Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son ascend to where he was before?
What if you should see the Son of Man reascending thither, where he was before?
63 The Spirit gives life; the physical body doesn't do anything. The words I've told you are spirit and life!
It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing. The words which I speak to you, are spirit and life.
64 Yet 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.)
But there are some of you who do not believe. (For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was that would betray him.)
65 Jesus added, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is made possible by the Father.”
He added, Therefore, I said to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.
66 From this time on many of Jesus' disciples gave up and no longer followed him.
From this time, many of his disciples withdrew, and accompanied him no longer.
67 Then Jesus asked the twelve disciples, “What about you? Do you want to leave as well?”
Then said Jesus to the twelve, Will you also go away?
68 Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who would we follow? You're the one who has the words of eternal life. (aiōnios )
Simon Peter answered, Master, to whom should we go? You have the words of eternal life: (aiōnios )
69 We trust in you, and we're convinced that you are God's Holy One.”
and we believe, and know that you are the Holy One of God.
70 Jesus replied, “Didn't I choose you, the twelve disciples? Yet one of you is a devil.”
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve? yet one of you is a spy.
71 (Jesus was referring to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. He was the one of the twelve disciples who would betray Jesus.)
He meant Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for it was he who was to betray him, though he was one of the twelve.