John 6:1-20

¹After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.

²A great crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

³Jesus went up the mountain and there he sat down with his disciples.

⁴(Now the Passover, the Jewish festival, was near.)

⁵When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where are we going to buy bread so that these may eat?”

⁶(But Jesus said this to test Philip, for he himself knew what he was going to do.)

⁷Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be sufficient for each one to have even a little.”

⁸One of the disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus,

⁹“There is a boy here who has five bread loaves of barley and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

¹⁰Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

¹¹Then Jesus took the loaves and after giving thanks, he gave it to those who were sitting. He did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

¹²When the people were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which remain, so that nothing will be lost.”

¹³So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴Then, when the people saw this sign that he did, they said, “This truly is the prophet who is to come into the world.”

¹⁵When Jesus realized that they were about to come and seize him by force to make him king, he withdrew again up the mountain by himself.

¹⁶When it became evening, his disciples went down to the sea.

¹⁷They got into a boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was dark by this time, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

¹⁸A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.

¹⁹When they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

²⁰But he said to them, “It is I! Do not be afraid.”