John 6 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

6 After this ^(A)Jesus went away to the other side of ^(B)the Sea of Galilee, which is ^(C)the Sea of Tiberias. ² And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. ³ Jesus went up on ^(D)the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. ⁴ Now ^(E)the Passover, the ^(F)feast of the Jews, was at hand. ^{5 (G)}Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to ^(H)Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ⁶ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. ^{7 (I)}Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii^[a] would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” ⁸ One of his disciples, ^(J)Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, ⁹ “There is a boy here who has five ^(K)barley loaves and two fish, but ^(L)what are they for so many?” ¹⁰ Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” ^(M)Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. ¹¹ Jesus then took the loaves, and ^(N)when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹² And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” ¹³ So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. ¹⁴ When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, ^(O)“This is indeed ^(P)the Prophet ^(Q)who is to come into the world!”

^{15 (R)}Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus ^(S)withdrew again to ^(T)the mountain by himself.

Jesus Walks on Water

¹⁶ When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷ got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. ¹⁸ The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. ¹⁹ When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[b] they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. ^{20 (U)}But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

I Am the Bread of Life

²² On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only ^(V)one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. ²³ Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord ^(W)had given thanks. ^{24 (X)}So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and ^(Y)went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ^(Z)“Rabbi, when did you come here?” ²⁶ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AA)you are seeking me, not because you saw ^(AB)signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. ^{27 (AC)}Do not labour for the food that perishes, but for ^(AD)the food that endures to eternal life, which ^(AE)the Son of Man will give to you. For on ^(AF)him God the Father has ^(AG)set his seal.” ²⁸ Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(AH)the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(AI)that you believe in him whom ^(AJ)he has sent.” ³⁰ So they said to him, ^(AK)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^{31 (AL)}Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(AM)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³² Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is ^(AN)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ They said to him, ^(AO)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ Jesus said to them, ^(AP)“I am the bread of life; ^(AQ)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶ But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ^{37 (AR)}All that ^(AS)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(AT)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸ For ^(AU)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(AV)my own will but ^(AW)the will of him ^(AX)who sent me. ³⁹ And ^(AY)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(AZ)that I should lose nothing of ^(BA)all that he has given me, but ^(BB)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(BC)looks on the Son and ^(BD)believes in him ^(BE)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹ So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(BF)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, ^(BG)“Is not this Jesus, ^(BH)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(BI)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(BJ)draws him. And ^(BK)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets, ^(BL)‘And they will all be ^(BM)taught by God.’ ^(BN)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ^{46 (BO)}not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(BP)he who is from God; he ^(BQ)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(BR)whoever believes has eternal life. ^{48 (BS)}I am the bread of life. ^{49 (BT)}Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(BU)they died. ^{50 (BV)}This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(BW)and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread ^(BX)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. And the bread that I will give ^(BY)for the life of the world is ^(BZ)my flesh.”

⁵² The Jews then ^(CA)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(CB)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^(CC)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(CD)have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(CE)has eternal life, and ^(CF)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(CG)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(CH)the living Father ^(CI)sent me, and ^(CJ)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^{58 (CK)}This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[c] the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live for ever.” ⁵⁹ Jesus^[d] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^(CL)at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

^{60 (CM)}When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹ But Jesus, ^(CN)knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offence at this? ⁶² Then what if you were to see ^(CO)the Son of Man ^(CP)ascending to ^(CQ)where he was before? ^{63 (CR)}It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(CS)the flesh is no help at all. ^(CT)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But ^(CU)there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus ^(CV)knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and ^(CW)who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵ And he said, “This is why I told you ^(CX)that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

^{66 (CY)}After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to ^(CZ)the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ^(DA)the words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and ^(DB)we have believed, and have come to know, that ^(DC)you are ^(DD)the Holy One of God.” ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, ^(DE)“Did I not choose you, ^(DF)the Twelve? And yet one of you is ^(DG)a devil.” ⁷¹ He spoke of Judas ^(DH)the son of Simon Iscariot, for ^(DI)he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

Footnotes

1. John 6:7 A denarius was a day's wage for a labourer
2. John 6:19 Greek twenty-five or thirty stadia; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 metres
3. John 6:58 Greek lacks the bread
4. John 6:59 Greek He

Cross references

1. John 6:1 : For ver. 1-13, see Matt. 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17
2. John 6:1 : See Matt. 4:18
3. John 6:1 : ch. 21:1
4. John 6:3 : ver. 15
5. John 6:4 : ch. 2:13; 11:55; See Ex. 12
6. John 6:4 : ch. 5:1; 7:2
7. John 6:5 : Luke 6:20
8. John 6:5 : ch. 1:44
9. John 6:7 : [Mark 6:37]
10. John 6:8 : ch. 1:40, 44
11. John 6:9 : 2 Kgs. 4:42, 43
12. John 6:9 : 2 Kgs. 4:42, 43
13. John 6:10 : [Mark 6:39]
14. John 6:11 : ver. 23; See Matt. 15:36
15. John 6:14 : See ch. 4:19
16. John 6:14 : ch. 1:21; 7:40; See Matt. 21:11
17. John 6:14 : ch. 11:27; See Matt. 11:3
18. John 6:15 : [ch. 12:12-15]
19. John 6:15 : For ver. 15-21, see Matt. 14:22-33; Mark 6:45-51; [Matt. 8:18]
20. John 6:15 : ver. 3
21. John 6:20 : [Luke 24:38, 39]
22. John 6:22 : ch. 21:8
23. John 6:23 : ver. 11
24. John 6:24 : For ver. 24, 25, [Matt. 14:34-36; Mark 6:53-56]
25. John 6:24 : ver. 17, 59
26. John 6:25 : See ch. 1:38
27. John 6:26 : ver. 24
28. John 6:26 : ver. 2
29. John 6:27 : Isa. 55:2
30. John 6:27 : [ver. 35, 50, 51, 54, 58]
31. John 6:27 : See Dan. 7:13
32. John 6:27 : [ch. 5:36, 37; 10:36]
33. John 6:27 : [Ezek. 9:4; Rom. 4:11; 1 Cor. 9:2; 2 Tim. 2:19]; See ch. 3:33
34. John 6:28 : 1 Cor. 15:58; Rev. 2:26
35. John 6:29 : 1 John 3:23
36. John 6:29 : See ch. 3:17
37. John 6:30 : See Matt. 12:38
38. John 6:31 : ver. 49, 58; Ex. 16:15; Num. 11:7-9
39. John 6:31 : Cited from Neh. 9:15; [Ps. 78:24, 25; 105:40; 1 Cor. 10:3]
40. John 6:33 : ver. 50
41. John 6:34 : See ch. 4:15, 33
42. John 6:35 : ver. 41, 48, 51; [ver. 58]
43. John 6:35 : ch. 4:14; 7:37; [ch. 5:40; Matt. 11:28; Rev. 7:16]
44. John 6:37 : ver. 39; ch. 17:2
45. John 6:37 : ch. 10:29; 17:6, 9, 24
46. John 6:37 : ch. 10:28; 17:12
47. John 6:38 : See ch. 3:13
48. John 6:38 : See ch. 5:30
49. John 6:38 : See ch. 5:30
50. John 6:38 : See ch. 4:34
51. John 6:39 : ch. 10:28, 29; Matt. 18:14
52. John 6:39 : ch. 17:12; 18:9
53. John 6:39 : ver. 37
54. John 6:39 : ver. 40, 44, 54; [ch. 11:25; 1 Cor. 6:14]
55. John 6:40 : ch. 12:45; 14:17, 19
56. John 6:40 : ver. 47; ch. 3:15, 16
57. John 6:40 : ver. 27, 54; ch. 4:14
58. John 6:41 : ver. 33, 35, 38
59. John 6:42 : See Matt. 13:55
60. John 6:42 : See ch. 1:45
61. John 6:42 : ch. 7:27, 28
62. John 6:44 : ch. 12:32; Jer. 31:3; Hos. 11:4; [ver. 65; ch. 4:23]
63. John 6:44 : ver. 39
64. John 6:45 : Cited from Isa. 54:13; [Jer. 31:33, 34; Heb. 8:10, 11]
65. John 6:45 : 1 Cor. 2:13; 1 Thess. 4:9; 1 John 2:20
66. John 6:45 : [ver. 37]
67. John 6:46 : See ch. 1:18
68. John 6:46 : See ch. 7:29
69. John 6:46 : [ch. 3:32; 8:38]
70. John 6:47 : See ch. 3:36
71. John 6:48 : See ver. 35
72. John 6:49 : See ver. 31
73. John 6:49 : ver. 58
74. John 6:50 : ver. 33
75. John 6:50 : ver. 51, 58
76. John 6:51 : ch. 3:13
77. John 6:51 : ver. 57; Luke 22:19
78. John 6:51 : ver. 53-56; [ch. 1:14]
79. John 6:52 : ch. 9:16; 10:19
80. John 6:52 : ver. 60; ch. 3:9
81. John 6:53 : ver. 27
82. John 6:53 : See ch. 20:31
83. John 6:54 : See ver. 40
84. John 6:54 : ver. 39
85. John 6:56 : ch. 15:4, 5; 1 John 3:24; 4:13, 15, 16
86. John 6:57 : [ch. 5:26]; See Matt. 16:16
87. John 6:57 : See ch. 3:17
88. John 6:57 : ch. 11:25; Rev. 1:18
89. John 6:58 : ver. 31, 33, 49-51
90. John 6:59 : ver. 24
91. John 6:60 : ver. 66; [ver. 64]
92. John 6:61 : [ch. 2:24, 25]
93. John 6:62 : ver. 27
94. John 6:62 : See Mark 16:19
95. John 6:62 : [ch. 17:5]; See ch. 3:13
96. John 6:63 : [1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:6]
97. John 6:63 : ch. 3:6
98. John 6:63 : ver. 68
99. John 6:64 : ver. 66
100. John 6:64 : [See ver. 61 above]; [ch. 2:24, 25]
101. John 6:64 : ver. 71; ch. 13:11
102. John 6:65 : ver. 44, 45; ch. 3:27
103. John 6:66 : ver. 60, 64
104. John 6:67 : ver. 70, 71
105. John 6:68 : Acts 5:20; [ch. 12:50; 17:8]
106. John 6:69 : [ch. 11:27; 1 John 4:16]
107. John 6:69 : See ch. 1:49
108. John 6:69 : See Mark 1:24
109. John 6:70 : See ch. 13:18
110. John 6:70 : [See ver. 67 above]; ver. 70, 71
111. John 6:70 : ch. 13:2, 27; 17:12
112. John 6:71 : ch. 13:26
113. John 6:71 : ver. 64, 67