1 After this Jesus went off across the Sea of Galilee, that is, of Tiberias.
2 A large crowd kept following him, because they were seeing the signs he was doing on the sick.
3 Jesus went up onto the mountainside and sat down there with his disciples.
4 The Passover, the feast of the Jews, was close at hand.
5 Jesus raised his eyes and, seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"
6 He said this to test him, since he himself knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
9 "There is a lad here with five barley loaves and two small fish; but what good are they for so many?"
10 Jesus said, "Have the people recline." There was plenty of grass in that place, so the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and handed them out to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining; and the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.
12 When they were full, he told his disciples, "Collect the leftover pieces, so that nothing goes to waste."
13 So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that the eaters had left over.
14 When the people saw the sign Jesus had done, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is coming into the world."
15 Jesus, aware that they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain, all by himself.
16 As evening came on, his disciples went down to the sea,
17 got into a boat, and set out across the sea for Capernaum. By now it had grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
18 A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.
19 When they had rowed some twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat, and they were frightened.
20 But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid."
21 So they were glad to take him into the boat, and at once the boat reached the shore they were heading for.
22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea noticed that only one small boat had been there, the one his disciples had got into, and that Jesus had not gone into the boat with his disciples; his disciples had left by themselves.
23 Other small boats, though, came from Tiberias near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats themselves and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
25 When they found him across the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
26 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for the food that lasts to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for God the Father has put his seal on him."
28 They asked him, "What must we do to carry out the works of God?"
29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he has sent."
30 So they said to him, "Then what sign are you doing, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing?
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it is written: 'Bread from heaven he gave them to eat.'"
32 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."
34 They said to him, "Lord, give us this bread always."
35 Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty again.
36 But I told you that you have seen me and still you do not believe.
37 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never turn away.
38 For I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
39 And the will of the Father who sent me is this: that I should lose nothing of all he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40 This is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day."
41 At this the Jews began to complain about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."
42 They were saying, "Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son? We know his father and mother. So how can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"
43 Jesus answered them, "Stop complaining among yourselves.
44 No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
45 It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the desert, and yet they died.
50 Here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
52 Then the Jews began quarreling among themselves: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
53 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
54 The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.
56 The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so too the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down out of heaven. It is not like the manna your fathers ate, and died; the one who feeds on this bread will live forever."
59 He said these things while teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.
60 When they heard this, many of his disciples said, "This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?"
61 Jesus, aware within himself that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, "Does this make you stumble?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man going up to where he was before?
63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh is of no help at all. The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life.
64 Yet some of you do not believe." For Jesus knew from the start who did not believe and who would betray him.
65 And he went on, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father."
66 From then on many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
67 So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You do not want to go away too, do you?"
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have words of eternal life.
69 And we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
70 Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil."
71 He meant Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.