John 6:22–44

I Am the Bread of Life

²²On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only ^done boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. ²³Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord ^ehad given thanks. ^24fSo when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and ^gwent to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ^h“Rabbi, when did you come here?” ²⁶Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ⁱyou are seeking me, not because you saw ^jsigns, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. ^27kDo not work for the food that perishes, but for ^lthe food that endures to eternal life, which ^mthe Son of Man will give to you. For on ⁿhim God the Father has ^oset his seal.” ²⁸Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^pthe works of God?” ²⁹Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^qthat you believe in him whom ^rhe has sent.” ³⁰So they said to him, ^s“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31tOur fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^u‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” ³²Jesus 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. ³³For the bread of God is ^vhe who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴They said to him, ^w“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵Jesus said to them, ^x“I am the bread of life; ^ywhoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ^37zAll that ^athe Father gives me will come to me, and ^bwhoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸For ^cI have come down from heaven, not to do ^dmy own will but ^dthe will of him ^ewho sent me. ³⁹And ^fthis is the will of him who sent me, ^gthat I should lose nothing of ^hall that he has given me, but ⁱraise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^jlooks on the Son and ^kbelieves in him ^lshould have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^m“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, ⁿ“Is not this Jesus, ^othe son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^pwe know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^qdraws him. And ^rI will raise him up on the last day.