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Jesus Feeds Five Thousand Men
(Matthew 14.13–21; Mark 6.30–44; Luke 9.10–17)
1 After this, Jesus went across
Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias,
as it is also called).
2 A large crowd
followed him, because they had seen
his miracles of healing the sick.
3 Jesus went up a hill and sat down
with his disciples.
4 The time for the
Passover Festival was near.
5 Jesus
looked around and saw that a large
crowd was coming to him, so he
asked Philip, “Where can we buy
enough food to feed all these people?”
6 (He said this to test Philip; actually
he already knew what he
would do.)
7 Philip answered, “For everyone
to have even a little, it would take
more than two hundred silver coins note
to buy enough bread.”
8 Another one of his disciples, Andrew,
who was Simon Peter's
brother, said,
9 “There is a boy here
who has five loaves of barley bread
and two fish. But they will certainly
not be enough for all these people.”
10 “Make the people sit down,” Jesus
told them. (There was a lot of
grass there.) So all the people sat
down; there were about five thousand
men.
11 Jesus took the bread,
gave thanks to God, and distributed
it to the people who were sitting
there. He did the same with the fish,
and they all had as much as they
wanted.
12 When they were all full,
he said to his disciples, “Gather the
pieces left over; let us not waste a
bit.”
13 So they gathered them all and
filled twelve baskets with the pieces
left over from the five barley loaves
which the people had eaten.
14 Seeing this miracle that Jesus
had performed, the people there
said, “Surely this is the Prophet note
who was to come into the world!”
15 Jesus knew that they were about
to come and seize him in order to
make him king by force; so he went
off again to the hills by himself.
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Jesus Walks on the Water
(Matthew 14.22–33; Mark 6.45–52)
16 When evening came, Jesus' disciples
went down to the lake,
17 got
into a boat, and went back across
the lake toward Capernaum. Night
came on, and Jesus still had not
come to them.
18 By then a strong
wind was blowing and stirring up
the water.
19 The disciples had rowed
about three or four miles when they
saw Jesus walking on the water,
coming near the boat, and they were
terrified.
20 “Don't be afraid,” Jesus
told them, “it is I!”
21 Then they willingly
took him into the boat, and immediately
the boat reached land at
the place they were heading for.
The People Seek Jesus
22 Next day the crowd which had
stayed on the other side of the lake
realized that there had been only
one boat there. They knew that Jesus
had not gone in it with his disciples,
but that they had left without
him.
23 Other boats, which were from
Tiberias, came to shore near the
place where the crowd had eaten the
bread after the Lord had given
thanks.
24 When the crowd saw that
Jesus was not there, nor his disciples,
they got into those boats and
went to Capernaum, looking for
him.
Jesus the Bread of Life
25 When the people found Jesus on
the other side of the lake, they said
to him, “Teacher, when did you get
here?”
26 Jesus answered, “I am telling
you the truth: you are looking for me
because you ate the bread and had
all you wanted, not because you understood
my miracles.
27 Do not
work for food that spoils; instead,
work for the food that lasts for eternal
life. This is the food which the
Son of Man will give you, because
God, the Father, has put his mark of
approval on him.” note
28 So they asked him, “What can
we do in order to do what God wants
us to do?”
29 Jesus answered, “What God
wants you to do is to believe in the
one he sent.”
30 They replied, “What miracle will
you perform so that we may see it
and believe you? What will you do?
31 Our ancestors ate manna in the
desert, just as the scripture says, ‘He
gave them bread from heaven to
eat.’” note
32 “I am telling you the truth,” Jesus
said. “What Moses gave you was
not note the bread from heaven; it is my
Father who gives you the real bread
from heaven.
33 For the bread that
God gives is he who comes down
from heaven and gives life to the
world.”
34 “Sir,” they asked him, “give us
this bread always.”
35 “I am the bread of life,” Jesus
told them. “He who comes to me
will never be hungry; he who believes
in me will never be thirsty.
36 Now, I told you that you have seen
me but will not believe.
37 Everyone
whom my Father gives me will come
to me. I will never turn away anyone
who comes to me,
38 because I have
come down from heaven to do not
my own will but the will of him who
sent me.
39 And it is the will of him
who sent me that I should not lose
any of all those he has given me, but
that I should raise them all to life on
the last day.
40 For what my Father
wants is that all who see the Son and
believe in him should have eternal
life. And I will raise them to life on
the last day.”
41 The people started grumbling
about him, because he said, “I am
the bread that came down from
heaven.”
42 So they said, “This man
is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We
know his father and mother. How,
then, does he now say he came down
from heaven?”
43 Jesus answered, “Stop grumbling
among yourselves.
44 No one
can come to me unless the Father
who sent me draws him to me; and I
will raise him to life on the last day.
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45 The prophets wrote, ‘Everyone
will be taught by God.’ Anyone who
hears the Father and learns from
him comes to me. note
46 This does not
mean that anyone has seen the Father;
he who is from God is the only
one who has seen the Father.
47 I am
telling you the truth: he who believes
has eternal life.
48 I am the
bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate
manna in the desert, but they died.
50 But the bread that comes down
from heaven is of such a kind that
whoever eats it will not die.
51 I am
the living bread that came down
from heaven. If anyone eats this
bread, he will live forever. The bread
that I will give him is my flesh,
which I give so that the world may
live.”
52 This started an angry argument
among them. “How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
53 Jesus said to them, “I am telling
you the truth: if you do not eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you will not have life in yourselves.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood has eternal life, and
I will raise him to life on the last day.
55 For my flesh is the real food; my
blood is the real drink.
56 Whoever
eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me, and I live in him.
57 The
living Father sent me, and because
of him I live also. In the same way
whoever eats me will live because of
me.
58 This, then, is the bread that
came down from heaven; it is not
like the bread that your ancestors
ate, but then later died. The one who
eats this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said this as he taught in
the synagogue in Capernaum.
The Words of Eternal Life
60 Many of his followers heard this
and said, “This teaching is too hard.
Who can listen to it?”
61 Without being told, Jesus knew
that they were grumbling about this,
so he said to them, “Does this make
you want to give up?
62 Suppose,
then, that you should see the Son of
Man go back up to the place where
he was before?
63 What gives life is
God's Spirit; man's power is of no
use at all. The words I have spoken
to you bring God's life-giving Spirit. note
64 Yet some of you do not believe.”
(Jesus knew from the very beginning
who were the ones that would
not believe and which one would betray
him.)
65 And he added, “This is
the very reason I told you that no
one can come to me unless the Father
makes it possible for him to do
so.”
66 Because of this, many of Jesus'
followers turned back and would not
go with him any more.
67 So he asked
the twelve disciples, “And you—
would you also like to leave?”
68 Simon Peter answered him,
“Lord, to whom would we go? You
have the words that give eternal life.
69 And now we believe and know
that you are the Holy One who has
come from God.” note
70 Jesus replied, “I chose the
twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of
you is a devil!”
71 He was talking
about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
For Judas, even though he was
one of the twelve disciples, was
going to betray him.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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