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John 6:15-40

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15But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him king, went again up the hill, quite alone.
16When evening fell, his disciples went down to the sea,
17and, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;
18the sea, too, was getting rough, for a strong wind was blowing.
19When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.
20But Jesus said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid!”
21And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.
22The people who remained on the further side of the sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.
23Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving.
24So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him.
25And, when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, “When did you get here, Rabbi?”
26“In truth I tell you,” answered Jesus, “it is not because of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you had the bread to eat and were satisfied.
27Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for on him the Father — God himself — has set the seal of his approval.”
28“How,” they asked, “are we to do the work that God wants us to do?”
29“The work that God wants you to do,” answered Jesus, “is to believe in him whom God sent as his messenger.”
30“What sign, then,” they asked, “are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?
31Our ancestors had the manna to eat in the desert; as scripture says — ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32“In truth I tell you,” replied Jesus, “Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread from heaven;
33for the bread that God gives is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.”
34“Master,” they exclaimed, “give us that bread always!”
35“I am the life-giving bread,” Jesus said to them; “whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never thirst again.
36But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me.
37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and no one who comes to me will I ever turn away.
38For I have come down from heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;
39and his will is this — that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last day.
40For it is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have immortal life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last day.”

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