1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).
2 A large crowd was following him because they saw the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.
3 So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat there with his disciples.
4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)
5 When Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip,
6 (He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was about to do.)
7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be sufficient for eachof them to receive a little portion.”
8 Then one of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
9 “There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are they for so many people?”
10 Jesus said,(Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks, he distributed themto the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to those who were seated. He did the same with the fish, and the people ate as much as they wanted.
12 When they were full, Jesus said to his disciples,
13 So they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the broken pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
14 When the people saw thesign that Jesus had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15 So Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king,withdrew to the mountain by himself.
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
17 and after getting intothe boat, they started going across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus hadnot come to them.
18 Then the sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.
19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea, and they were afraid.
20 But he said to them,
21 Then they were willing to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land where they were heading.
22 On the next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea realized that there had been no other boat there exceptthe one Jesus' disciples had gotten into, and that Jesus himself had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.
23 Then other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did yoʋ get here?”
26 Jesus answered them,
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to do the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered them,
30 So they said to him, “What sign then are yoʋ going to perform so that we may see it and believe yoʋ? What will yoʋ do?
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Jesus said to them,
34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them,
41 Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he said,
42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Howthen can he say,?”
43 Jesus answered them,
52 Then the Jews began to quarrel with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them,
59 He said these things in a synagogue while teaching in Capernaum.
60 After hearing this, many of his disciples said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”
61 But Jesus, aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them,
64 (For Jesus knew from the beginning which of them did not believe and who it was that would betray him.)
65 Then he said,
66 At that point many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve,
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Yoʋ have the words of eternal life.
69 And we have come to believe and to know that yoʋ are theChrist, the Son ofthe living God.”
70 Jesus answered them,
71 (Now he was speaking aboutJudas Iscariot, the son of Simon,who was one of the twelve and would later betray him.)