CHAPTER IX.
CHRIST AT CAPERNAUM PROCLAIMING HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD AND THE BREAD OF LIFE.
1 6:22ON the next day, the multitude standing on the other side of the lake seeing that there was no other boat there except one, and that Jesus entered not into the ship with his disciples but his disciples had gone away alone,— 6:23but other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten bread after the Lord gave thanks,— 6:24when, therefore, the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they went into the ships and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 6:25And finding him on the other side of the lake they said to him, Rabbi, when came you hither? 6:26Jesus answered them and said, I tell you most truly, you seek me not because you saw miracles, but because you eat of the bread and were filled. 6:27Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you; for him has God the Father sealed.
2 6:28Then they said to him, What shall we do to perform the works of God? 6:29Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God; to believe on him whom he has sent. 6:30Then they said to him, What miracle do you perform, that we may see and believe you? what work do you perform? 6:31Our fathers eat the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 6:32Then Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven; 6:33for the bread of God is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
3 6:34Then they said to him, Sir, always give us this bread. 6:35Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst. 6:36But I said to you, that you have seen me and believe not. 6:37Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will by no means cast out; 6:38for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me. 6:39And this is the will of him that sent me; that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise it up at the last day. 6:40For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
4 6:41Then the Jews complained of him because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 6:42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how, then, does he say, I came down from heaven? 6:43Then Jesus answered and said to them, Complain not among yourselves. 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:45It is written in the prophets, And all shall be taught of God. Every one who has heard and learned of the Father comes to me. 6:46Not that any one has seen the Father except he that is from God; he has seen the Father.
5 6:47I tell you most truly, He that believes has eternal life. 6:48I am the bread of life. 6:49Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, and died; 6:50this is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 6:51I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
6 6:52Then the Jews contended one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 6:53Then Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 6:54He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:55For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. 6:56He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood continues in me, and I in him. 6:57As the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he that eats me shall live by me. 6:58This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers eat and died, he that eats this bread shall live forever. 6:59These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
7 6:60Then many of his disciples hearing him said, This is a hard saying; who can hear him? 6:61And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples complained of this, said to them, Does this offend you? 6:62[What], then if you should see the Son of man ascend where he was formerly? 6:63The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 6:64But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who he was that would betray him. 6:65And on that account he said, I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been given him by my Father.
8 6:66From this time many of his disciples went away from following him, and walked no more with him. 6:67Then Jesus said to the twelve Will you also go away? 6:68Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have words of eternal life, 6:69and we have believed and know that you are the Holy [Son] of God. 6:70He answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve? and of you one is a devil. 6:71But he spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he was about to betray him, being one of the twelve. 7:1And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.