The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 6
{6:1} After these things, Yeshua went away to the other side of the
sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. {6:2} A
great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did
on those who were sick. {6:3} Yeshua went up into the mountain, and he
sat there with his disciples. {6:4} Now the Passover, the Jewish
festival, was at hand. {6:5} Yeshua therefore lifting up his eyes, and
seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip,
"Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" {6:6} This he said to
test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
{6:7} Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is
not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
{6:8} One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to
him, {6:9} "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two
fish, but what are these among so many?"
{6:10} Yeshua said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much
grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand. {6:11} Yeshua took the loaves; and having given thanks, he
distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were
sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
{6:12} When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the
broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." {6:13} So
they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces
from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had
eaten. {6:14} When therefore the people saw the sign which Yeshua did,
they said, "This is truly the Prophet who comes into the world."
{6:15} Yeshua therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and
take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by
himself.
{6:16} When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, {6:17}
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to
Capernaum. It was now dark, and Yeshua had not come to them. {6:18}
The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. {6:19} When therefore they
had rowed about [1>]twenty-five or thirty stadia,[<1] they saw Yeshua
walking on the sea,[2] and drawing near to the boat; and they were
afraid. {6:20} But he said to them, "[3>]It is I[<3]. Don't be
afraid." {6:21} They were willing therefore to receive him into the
boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
{6:22} On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side
of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in
which his disciples had embarked, and that Yeshua hadn't entered with
his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
{6:23} However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they
ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. {6:24} When the
multitude therefore saw that Yeshua wasn't there, nor his disciples,
they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking
Yeshua. {6:25} When they found him on the other side of the sea, they
asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"
{6:26} Yeshua answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek
me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and
were filled. {6:27} Don't work for the food which perishes, but for
the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give
to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
{6:28} They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may
work the works of God?"
{6:29} Yeshua answered them, "This is the work of God, that you
believe in him whom he has sent."
{6:30} They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign,
that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? {6:31} Our
fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave
them bread out of [4>]heaven[<4] to eat.'"[5]
{6:32} Yeshua therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you,
it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father
gives you the true bread out of heaven. {6:33} For the bread of God is
that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
{6:34} They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
{6:35} Yeshua said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to
me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be
thirsty. {6:36} But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you
don't believe. {6:37} All those whom the Father gives me will come to
me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. {6:38} For I have
come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who
sent me. {6:39} This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all
he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at
the last day. {6:40} This is the will of the one who sent me, that
everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal
life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
{6:41} The Judeans therefore murmured concerning him, because he
said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." {6:42} They
said, "Isn't this Yeshua, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother
we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
{6:43} Therefore Yeshua answered them, "Don't murmur among
yourselves. {6:44} No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. {6:45} It is
written in the Prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.'[6]
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes
to me. {6:46} Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is
from God. He has seen the Father. {6:47} Most certainly, I tell you,
he who believes in me has eternal life. {6:48} I am the bread of life.
{6:49} Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
{6:50} This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone
may eat of it and not die. {6:51} I am the living bread which came
down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live
forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is
my flesh."
{6:52} The Judeans therefore contended with one another, saying,
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
{6:53} Yeshua therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
don't have life in yourselves. {6:54} He who eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
{6:55} For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
{6:56} He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in
him. {6:57} As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. {6:58}
This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers
ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
{6:59} He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum.
{6:60} Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said,
"This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
{6:61} But Yeshua knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at
this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? {6:62} Then what
if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
{6:63} It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The
words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. {6:64} But there
are some of you who don't believe." For Yeshua knew from the beginning
who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
{6:65} He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can
come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
{6:66} At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more
with him. {6:67} Yeshua said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also
want to go away, do you?"
{6:68} Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You
have the words of eternal life. {6:69} We have come to believe and
know that you are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."
{6:70} Yeshua answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and
one of you is a devil?" {6:71} Now he spoke of Judah, the son of Simon
Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
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Footnotes:
[1] {6:19} 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4
miles
[2] {6:19} see Job 9:8
[3] {6:20} or, I AM
[4] {6:31} Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the
heavens", "the sky", and "the air".
[5] {6:31} Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25
[6] {6:45} Isaiah 54:13
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