John 6:2-20

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!”