John 6:3-21

³Jesus went up a hill and sat down there with his disciples.

⁴The time for the Jewish festival of the Passover was approaching.

⁵When Jesus looked up, and saw a large crowd coming towards him, he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?”

⁶He only asked this to see how Philip would respond, because Jesus already knew what he was going to do.

⁷“Two hundred silver coins wouldn't buy enough bread to give everyone even just a little,” Philip replied.

⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.

⁹“There's a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what good is that when there are so many people?”

¹⁰“Have everybody sit down,” Jesus said. There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down, the men numbering around five thousand.

¹¹Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, and had it handed out to the people as they sat there. Then he did the same with the fishes, making sure the people had as much as they wanted.

¹²Once they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Collect what's left over so nothing is wasted.”

¹³So they collected and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves the people had eaten.

¹⁴When the people saw this miracle, they said, “Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world.”

¹⁵Jesus realized that they were about to force him to become their king, so he left them and went up into the hills to be by himself.

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

¹⁷climbed into a boat, and headed across the water towards Capernaum. By now it was night and Jesus had not joined them yet.

¹⁸A strong wind began blowing and the sea grew rough.

¹⁹When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, coming towards the boat. They were very frightened.

²⁰“Don't be afraid!” he told them. “It's me.”

²¹Then they gladly took him into the boat, and immediately they reached the shore where they were going.