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John 6:2-21

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2A great crowd of people, however, followed him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were sick.
3Jesus went up the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.
4It was near the time of the Jewish Festival of the Passover.
5Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?”
6He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he meant to do.
7“Even if we spent a years' wages on bread,” answered Philip, “it would not be enough for each of them to have a little.”
8“There is a boy here,” said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,
9“Who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what is that for so many?”
10“Make the people sit down,” said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the people, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,
11and then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.
12When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, “Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted.”
13The disciples did so, and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which were left after all had eaten.
14When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said, “This is certainly the prophet who was to come into the world.”
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.

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