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          DASV: John 6    

1 After this Jesus went across to the other side of the Sea
of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
2 A large crowd followed him because they saw the signs he
was doing for those who were sick.
3 Jesus went up the mountain and there he sat with his disciples.
4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
5 Jesus, lifting up his eyes, saw a large crowd coming to
him, and said to Philip, "Where can we go to buy bread,
so that these people may eat?"
6 He said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip replied, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not
be enough for each of them to have a little."
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said
to him,
9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes.
But what use is that among so many people?"
10 Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was a lot
of grass in the place. So the people sat down, numbering about
five thousand men.
11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, he
distributed to those who were seated; and did the same with
the fish, providing as much as they wanted.
12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up
the broken fragments which were left over, so that nothing is
wasted."
13 So they picked them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken
pieces from the five barley loaves left over by those who
had eaten.
14 When therefore the people saw the miraculous sign which he did,
they said, "This is truly the prophet who is to come into
the world."
15 When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take
him by force to make him king, he withdrew again into the
mountain alone.

16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
17 got into a boat, and started to cross the sea to Capernaum.
It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
18 The sea was rough because a great wind was blowing.
19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw
Jesus walking on the sea, approaching the boat. They were
terrified.
20 But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid."
21 They were desirous to take him into the boat, and immediately
the boat arrived at the land where they were going.
22 On the next day the crowd that stood on the other side of
the sea saw that there were no other boats there, except one,
and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat,
but that his disciples had gone out alone.
23 But some boats came from Tiberias near the place where they
ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were
there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking
for Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said
to him, "Rabbi, when did you arrive here?"
26 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, you seek me, not because
you saw the miraculous signs, but because you ate the loaves
and were filled.
27 Do not work for food which perishes, but for the food which
lasts to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.
For God the Father has his stamp of approval on him."

28 They asked him, "What must we do that we may do the works God
approves of?"
29 Jesus replied, "This is the work of God, that you believe
on him whom he has sent."
30 Then they said to him, "What miraculous sign will you do
so that we may see it, and believe you? What work can you do?
31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is
written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
32 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it was not Moses
who gave you the bread from heaven; but now my Father is giving
you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven,
and gives life to the world."
34 They said him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
35 Jesus replied. "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me
will not hunger, and whoever believes on me will never thirst.
36 But I told you that you have seen me and still you don't
believe.
37 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me; and whoever comes
to me I will never throw out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will,
but the will of him who sent me.
39 Now this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not
lose one of all those he has given me, but should raise them
up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks
on the Son, and believes on him, should have eternal life;
and I will raise him up on the last day."

41 Then Jews complained about him, because he said, "I am the
bread that came down from heaven."
42 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know? How then does he claim, 'I have
come down from heaven'?
43 Jesus replied, "Don't complain among yourselves.
44 No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw
him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by
God.' Everyone who listens to the Father, and learns, comes
to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is
from God, he has seen the Father.
47 I tell you the truth, whoever believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they
died.
50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that a
person may eat it and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever
eats this bread will live forever. The bread that I will
give is my flesh, for the life of the world."

52 The Jews argued with each other, saying, "How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?"
53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, except you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
have no life in yourselves.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life; and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me,
and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of
the Father; so whoever feeds on me, he also will live
because of me.
58 This is the bread come down from heaven; not like that
which your forefathers ate and died; whoever eats this bread
will live forever."
59 These things he said in the synagogue, while he taught in
Capernaum.

60 Many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This
is a hard saying; who can accept it?"
61 But Jesus, realizing that his disciples complained about
this, said to them, "Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you should see the Son of Man ascending to
where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they
are life.
64 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe,
and who would betray him.
65 Then he said, "This is the reason I told you that no one
can come to me, except it is granted to him by the Father."
66 After this many of his disciples turned back, and no
longer walked with him.

67 Then Jesus asked the twelve, "You also don't want to leave,
do you?"
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go?
You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have believed and know that you are the Holy One of
God."
70 Jesus answered them, "Did not I choose you, the Twelve?
But one of you is a devil."
71 Now he was talking about Judas the son of Simon Iscariot,
for he was the one who was going to betray him, even
though he was one of the twelve.

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