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After this, Jesus went away beyond the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. A great crowd followed Him because they saw the signs that He did to heal the sick. Jesus went up into the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
The Passover was near, Jesus then, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread that they may eat?” This He said to try him. However, He Himself knew what He was about to do.
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for these, that each one may take some.”
One of His disciples, Andrew, said to Him, “There is a lad here who has five loaves and two fish. What are these among so many?” Jesus said, “Make the men sit.” There was much grass in the place. The men sat and they numbered about five thousand.
Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks and gave them to those that sat. In like manner also of the fish as much as they wished. When they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that remain, that nothing be lost.”
They gathered them and filled twelve traveling baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained after they had eaten. The men, seeing the sign that He had done, said, “This is, in truth, the prophet that comes into the world.”
Jesus then, knowing that they were about to come and seize Him to make Him king, fled into the mountain alone.
When evening had come, His disciples went down to the sea and having boarded a ship, were going beyond the sea to Capernaum, but darkness overtook them, and Jesus had not yet come to them, the sea rose, and a great wind was blowing.
They rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs and saw Jesus walking on the sea near the ship, and they were afraid. He said, “It is I, be not afraid.” They received Him into the ship, and immediately, the ship was at the land to which they were going.
In the morning, the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other ship there but one, but they knew that Jesus had not boarded the ship with His disciples. However, little ships came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread. When the crowd saw that Jesus or disciples weren’t there, they boarded the little ships and came to Capernaum. Having found Jesus, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did you go?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the food that keeps to life eternal, which the Son of man gives you. Him has God the Father attested.”
They said to Him, “What must we do that we may do the works of God?” Jesus said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom He has sent.”
They said to Him, “What is the sign that we may see and believe in you? What works do you do? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘Bread from heaven gave he them to eat.’” Then said Jesus, “Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the bread from heaven, the true bread. The bread which is God's is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
They said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” Jesus then said to them, “I am the bread of life, he that comes to me will not hunger, and he that believes in me will never thirst, but I say to you that you have seen and do not believe.
“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and him that comes to me I will not cast out. I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of Him that sent me. This is the will of Him that sent me, that I will lose nothing of all that He has given me but will raise it up in the last day.
“This is the will of my Father, that whoever sees the Son and believes in him may have life eternal, and I will raise him up in the last day.” The Jews murmured concerning Him because He said: “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How now says this man: ‘I have come down from heaven?’” Jesus answered, “Murmur not among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
“It is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught of God, everyone that has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, but he that is from God he has seen the Father. Truly, I say to you, that he that believes has life eternal. I am the bread of life.
“Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died, this is the bread that comes down from heaven, that anyone may eat of it and die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven, if anyone eats...
Jesus walked in Galilee, and He would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill Him. The feast of the Jews, that of Tabernacles, was near. His brothers said to Him, “Depart here and go into Judea, that your disciples may see the works that you do. No one does anything in secret and desires to be known openly. If you do these things, make yourself manifest to the world.” Neither did His brothers believe in Him.
Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet present, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but me it hates because I testify of it that its works are evil.”
His disciples asked, “Do you go up to the feast?” Jesus replied, “I don’t go to the feast because my time has not yet come.”
Having said these things, He stayed in Galilee, but when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went in secret. The Jews then sought for Him at the feast and said, “Where is He?”
There was murmuring concerning Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “No, He deceives the crowd.” No one, however, spoke boldly concerning Him for fear of the Jews.
In the middle of the festival, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews were amazed, “How does He know the letters not having been taught?” Jesus then answered, “My teaching is not mine, but His that sent me, if anyone will do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or I speak of myself. He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, he that seeks the glory of Him that sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him. Has not Moses given you the law? None of you does the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
The crowd said, “You have a demon who seeks to kill us?” Jesus answered, “One work I have done, and you all wonder. Moses has given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the Father’s, and on the Sabbath day you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I restored the entire man to health on the Sabbath? Judge not, by appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
Then said some of those of Jerusalem, “Is not this He whom they seek to kill? He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Have the rulers known that this is not the Anointed One? However, we know this man where He came from, but when the Anointed One comes, no one knows where He comes from.” Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You know me, and you know not where I come from. I have not come of myself, but He that sent me, Who you know not, I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent me.” They sought to take Him, and no one laid his hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.
Many of the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Anointed One comes, will He do more signs than these that this man does?”
The Pharisees heard the crowd talking...
Jesus said, “I am the light of the world, he that follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The Pharisees said to Him, “You testify of yourself, your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered, “Though I testify of myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came and where I go, you know not where I come or where I go.
“You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. Even if I judge, my judgment is true because I am not alone, but I and He that sent me. Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true. I am one testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me testifies of me.”
They said to Him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.” He spoke these words in the treasury while teaching in the temple. No one took Him, because His hour had not yet come.
He said again to them, “I go away, and you will seek me, and in your sin you will die. Where I go you cannot come.”
The Jews then said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says: ‘Where I go you cannot come?’” He said to them, “You are from beneath, I am from above, you are of this world, I am not of this world. I say to you that you will die in your sins. If you believe not that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
They said to Him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Altogether that which I also say to you. I have many things to say and to judge you, but He that sent me is true, and what I have heard from Him, these things I speak unto the world.” They didn’t know that He spoke to them of the Father.
Then said Jesus, “When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me, I speak these things. He that sent me is with me, He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.” While He was speaking these things, many believed in Him.
Jesus then said to the Jews that believed in Him, “If you trust in my word, you are my disciples in truth, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
They answered Him, “We are Abraham's posterity and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say: ‘You will become free?’” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you that everyone that does sin is a servant of sin, but the servant stays not in the house forever, the Son stays forever. If, then, the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.
“I know that you are Abraham's posterity, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. I speak about things I have seen with my Father, and you then do what things you have heard from your father.”
They said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were the children of Abraham, you would do his works, but now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God, this Abraham did not. You do the works of your fathers.”
They said to Him, “We have not been born of lewdness. We have one Father, God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father...
It was the Sabbath, and passing by, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man or his parents have sinned, but that the works of God might be manifested in him. We must work the works of Him that sent us while it is day, there comes night when no man can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
He said these things, and spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam.” Which is, translated, “Sent.” He went and washed and came seeing.
Those that had seen him before knew he was a beggar, said, “Is not this he that sat and begged?” Some said, “That this is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He said, “I am he.”
They said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me: ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Having gone and washed, I received sight.”
They said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I know not.”
They brought him to the Pharisees. The Pharisees also asked him how he had received sight. He said to them, “He put clay upon my eyes and I washed and I could see.”
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He keeps not the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man, a sinner, do such signs?” There was a division among them.
They said to the blind man again, “What do you say of Him because He has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
The Jews did not believe him, that he was blind and had received sight, so they called his parents and asked them, “Is this your son, of whom you say that he was born blind? How, then, does he now see?”
His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind, but how he now sees we know not, or who opened his eyes we know not, ask him. He is of age he will speak for himself.” These things said his parents because they feared the Jews. The Jews had already agreed that if anyone should say that He is the Anointed One, he will be put out of the synagogue. For this reason, his parents said that he is of age, ask him.
A second time, they called the man and said to him, “Give glory to God, we know that this man is a sinner.” He answered, “If He is a sinner, I know not, one thing I know, that, being blind, I now see.”
They said to him, “What did He do...
Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, he that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but goes up by some other way, he is a thief and a robber, but he that enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name and leads them out.
“When he puts forth all of his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow but flee from him because they know not the voice of strangers.” Jesus spoke this parable, but they didn’t understand.
Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All as many as have come are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
“I am the door, through me if any man enters in, he will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture. The thief comes not but that he may steal, kill, and destroy, I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, he that is a hireling and not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd, and know...