[English Bible Study] John chapter 6
Jn. 6:1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea
of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),
Jn. 6:2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw
the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick.
Jn. 6:3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his
disciples.
Jn. 6:4 The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
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Jn. 6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming
towards him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for
these people to eat?”
Jn. 6:6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind
what he was going to do.
Jn. 6:7 Philip answered him, “Eight months’ wages [Greek: two
hundred denarii] would not buy enough bread for each one to
have a bite!”
Jn. 6:8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,
spoke up,
Jn. 6:9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small
fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
Jn. 6:10 Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” There was plenty of
grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five
thousand of them.
Jn. 6:11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to
those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the
same with the fish.
Jn. 6:12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples,
“Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
Jn. 6:13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the
pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had
eaten.
Jn. 6:14 After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they
began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into
the world.”
Jn. 6:15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him
king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
Jn. 6:16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,
Jn. 6:17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for
Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined
them.
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Jn. 6:18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough.
Jn. 6:19 When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, [Greek:
rowed twenty-five or thirty stadia (about 5 or 6 kilometres)]
they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water;
and they were terrified.
Jn. 6:20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.”
Jn. 6:21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and
immediately the boat reached the shore where they were
heading.
Jn. 6:22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore
of the lake realised that only one boat had been there, and
that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they
had gone away alone.
Jn. 6:23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where
the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given
thanks.
Jn. 6:24 Once the crowd realised that neither Jesus nor his disciples
were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in
search of Jesus.
Jn. 6:25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they
asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jn. 6:26 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me,
not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate
the loaves and had your fill.
Jn. 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to
eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God
the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
Jn. 6:28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works
God requires?”
Jn. 6:29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the
one he has sent.”
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Jn. 6:30 So they asked him, “What miraculous sign then will you give
that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
Jn. 6:31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written:
`He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’“ [Exodus 16:4;
Neh. 9:15; Psalm 78:24,25]
Jn. 6:32 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who
has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who
gives you the true bread from heaven.
Jn. 6:33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.”
Jn. 6:34 “Sir,” they said, “from now on give us this bread.”
Jn. 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes
to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will
never be thirsty.
Jn. 6:36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not
believe.
Jn. 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever
comes to me I will never drive away.
Jn. 6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to
do the will of him who sent me.
Jn. 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none
of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
Jn. 6:40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son
and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him
up at the last day.”
Jn. 6:41 At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said,
“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
Jn. 6:42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How can he now say, `I came down
from heaven’?”
Jn. 6:43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
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Jn. 6:44 “No-one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jn. 6:45 It is written in the Prophets: `They will all be taught by God.’
[Isaiah 54:13] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns
from him comes to me.
Jn. 6:46 No-one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;
only he has seen the Father.
Jn. 6:47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
Jn. 6:48 I am the bread of life.
Jn. 6:49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.
Jn. 6:50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a
man may eat and not die.
Jn. 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone
eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.”
Jn. 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves,
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jn. 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life
in you.
Jn. 6:54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jn. 6:55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Jn. 6:56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me,
and I in him.
Jn. 6:57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the
Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
Jn. 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your
forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this
bread will live for ever.”
Jn. 6:59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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Jn. 6:60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard
teaching. Who can accept it?”
Jn. 6:61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said
to them, “Does this offend you?
Jn. 6:62 What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was
before!
Jn. 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I
have spoken to you are spirit [Or Spirit] and they are life.
Jn. 6:64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus
had known from the beginning which of them did not believe
and who would betray him.
Jn. 6:65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no-one can
come to me unless the Father has enabled him.”
Jn. 6:66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no
longer followed him.
Jn. 6:67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the
Twelve.
Jn. 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.
Jn. 6:69 We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jn. 6:70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet
one of you is a devil!”
Jn. 6:71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one
of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)