1  After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, 2  and a great crowd followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought upon the sick. 3  And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there sat with his disciples: 4  but the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. 5  Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat? 6  But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do. 7  Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little portion. 8  One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, says to him, 9  There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many? 10  And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand. 11  And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed them to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would. 12  And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost. 13  They gathered them therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten. 14  The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.

15  Jesus therefore knowing that they were going to come and seize him, that they might make him king, departed again to the mountain himself alone. 16  But when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea, 17  and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not come to them, 18  and the sea was agitated by a strong wind blowing. 19  Having rowed then about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the ship; and they were frightened. 20  But he says to them, It is I: be not afraid. 21  They were willing therefore to receive him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land to which they went.

22  On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but that his disciples had gone away alone; 23  (but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;) 24  when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into the ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25  And having found him the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here? 26  Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled. 27  Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.

28  They said therefore to him, What should we do that we may work the works of God? 29  Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent. 30  They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.