John 6:10-44

¹⁰Then Jesus said, “Make the people recline.” Now there was plenty of grass in the place; so the men reclined, about five thousand in number.

¹¹Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.

¹²So when they were full He says to His disciples, “Collect the leftover fragments so that nothing be wasted.”

¹³So they collected and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that were left over from those who had eaten.

¹⁴Now then, having seen the miraculous sign that Jesus performed the men said, “This One really is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

¹⁵So Jesus, perceiving that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew up the mountain again by Himself, alone.

¹⁶Now as evening came on His disciples had gone down to the sea,

¹⁷and getting into the boat they started to go across the sea toward Capernaum. Well it had been dark for a while and Jesus had not come to them.

¹⁸Further, the sea was being agitated by a strong wind blowing.

¹⁹Then, after they had rowed some three or four miles, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat; and they were afraid.

²⁰But He said to them, “It is I; don't be afraid!”

²¹Then they wanted to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

²²The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other boat there except the one into which His disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with His disciples but only His disciples had gone away—

²³although other boats had come from Tiberias, near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks—

²⁴so when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.

²⁵When they found Him on another side of the sea they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

²⁶Jesus answered them and said: “Most assuredly I say to you, you are not seeking me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the bread and were filled.

²⁷Do not work for the food that wastes away but for the food that endures into life eternal, which the Son of the Man will give you; because on Him God the Father has set His seal.”

²⁸So they said to Him, “What should we do so that we may work the works of God?”

²⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.”

³⁰So they said to Him: “Well then, what sign are you going to do so we may see and believe you? What are you going to perform?

³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, just as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.’ ”

³²Then Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.

³³For the bread of God is the One coming down out of Heaven and giving Life to the world.”

³⁴Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”

³⁵So Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of the Life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes into me will never thirst.

³⁶But, as I told you, you have actually seen me, yet you do not believe.

³⁷All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not throw out;

³⁸because it is not to do my own will that I have come down out of Heaven, but the will of the One who sent me.

³⁹Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day.

⁴⁰Again this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who ‘sees’ the Son and believes into Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

⁴¹Then the Jews started complaining about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of Heaven.”

⁴²And they were saying: “Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, ‘I have come down out of Heaven’?”

⁴³So Jesus answered and said to them: “Stop complaining among yourselves.

⁴⁴No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.