John 6:1-34

¹Some time later, when Jesus was in Galilee district, near the time of the Jewish Passover celebration, Jesus went with us disciples by boat and crossed to another place along Galilee Lake. This lake is also called Tiberias Lake.

²A large crowd of people kept following Jesus on land because they had been seeing the miracles he performed by healing sick people.

³Jesus went up on the hillside and sat down with us disciples to teach us.

⁴Then he looked up and saw a great crowd of people coming toward him.

⁵He said to Philip, “Where will we buy food for all these people to eat?”

⁶He asked this only to find out if Philip believed what Jesus could do, because Jesus already knew what he himself was going to do.

⁷Philip replied to him, “ Even if we had the amount of money a man earns in eight months, that would not be enough to buy bread so that each person could have a little bit!”

⁸Another one of us disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's younger brother, said to Jesus,

⁹“There is a boy here who has five small barley loaves and two cooked fish. But ◄they will not help much among so many people!/what good will that do among so many people?► RHQ”

¹⁰Jesus said, “Tell the people to sit down!” There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down comfortably. There were about five thousand men among the crowd .

¹¹Then Jesus took the small loaves and the fish and thanked God for them. Then he gave them to us, and we distributed the small loaves and the fish to all the people sitting on the ground. Because God caused the food to keep increasing, everyone ate as much as they wanted.

¹²When everyone had all the food they wanted, he said to us disciples, “Gather up the pieces that are left over. Do not let anything be wasted!”

¹³So we gathered up the pieces of the small loaves that were left over by those who had eaten. We filled twelve baskets with those pieces!

¹⁴After the people saw that miracle that Jesus had performed, many of them started to say, “Surely this is the prophet like Moses that God promised to send to the world!”

¹⁵So, because Jesus realized that they were about to come and seize him to make him their king, he left them again and went up into the hills by himself.

¹⁶When it was evening, we disciples went down to Galilee Lake.

¹⁷When it became dark and Jesus had still not joined us, we got into a boat and went across the lake towards Capernaum city.

¹⁸A strong wind started to blow and caused the water ◄to become very rough/to have high waves►.

¹⁹After we had rowed ◄three or four miles/five or six kilometers►, we saw Jesus coming near the boat; he was walking on the water! So we were terrified!

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

²¹We were glad to take him into the boat. As soon as we did that, the boat reached the shore where we were going!

²²The next day the crowd of people that had stayed on the other side of the lake were perplexed about how Jesus had left that area. They knew that there had been only one boat there the previous day. They knew that we had gone away in it by ourselves. They knew that Jesus had not gone with us.

²³Then some men came from Tiberias city in boats. They were hoping to take some of the crowd back to Tiberias. They arrived near the place where the people had eaten the food after Jesus had given thanks and caused it to multiply.

²⁴When the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor we disciples were there, some of them got into those boats and they sailed to Capernaum to find Jesus.

²⁵When they found him in Capernaum further around the lake, they asked him, “Teacher, since you(sg) did not come in a boat, when and how did you get here?”

²⁶Jesus replied to them, “Listen to this carefully: Do you know why you are looking for me? It is not because you saw me perform miracles and as a result have realized who I really am. No! You are looking for me only because you had plenty of bread to eat after I provided it for you by performing a miracle.

²⁷Stop desiring food that will soon spoil! Instead, desire to get spiritual food that will last forever! Yearn for eternal life! That is what I, the one who came from heaven, will give you. God my Father has shown that he approves of me enabling me to do that.”

²⁸Then the people asked him, “What things should we do to please God?”

²⁹Jesus replied, “What God wants you to do is this: He wants you to believe that I am the one he has sent.”

³⁰So they said to him, “Then perform another miracle so that we may see it and believe that you came from God. What miracle would you like to perform?

³¹Our ancestors ate the food called manna that God provided for them by a miracle in the desolate area. This is written { The Psalmist wrote this} in the Scriptures about what Moses caused to happen: ‘He gave them food from heaven to eat.’ Will you perform a miracle like that?”

³²So Jesus said to them, “The truth is that it was not Moses who gave your ancestors that food from heaven. No, it was my Father who gave it to them. And my Father is the one who gives you the true food from heaven.

³³The true bread from God came down from heaven, and he is the one who will give eternal life to the people of the world MTY.”

³⁴Not understanding what he meant, they said to him, “Sir, give us that kind of bread all the time!”