6 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Jesus is so comfortable, He sits to teach and nourish. Jesus is God.
3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to 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 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
Bishop Papias of Hierapolis and Polycarp lived near and were friends with the Disciple John on the Island of Patmos.
The Harris fragments tell of this connection. Bishop Papias, referred to by Bishop Eusebius, early Church Historian in the 4th Century, developed the Christian word "Presbyter" Bishop Papias went to the Sea of Galilee and Jerusalem to find the people who had met Jesus and seen His miracles. By then, we were on the second generation, mostly. However this young boy might have been alive to say, "I took Jesus bread and fish." To have been this boy, to have seen what he saw. Amazing.
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”
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 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, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Jesus is the Light of the World
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, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.
20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
21 Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and
the boat was at the land to which they were going.
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
22 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only 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 had given thanks. 24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘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 he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;
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 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John is Extremely Interesting. His Gospel is explaining his own coming to terms with the powerful and miraculous aspects surrounding a Man who drew multitudes to Him. God's Word Manifest. John tells us as his Gospel closes that so much constantly surrounded Jesus, no one could explain the multitude of signs following and occurring.
John is displaying the difference between Jesus in a crowd, how to explain Jesus and see Jesus. And the Jesus of close relationship to the heart. How much more is revealed.
Before John begins to establish the difference between public God and Amazing, Miraculous Jesus, John starts off by telling us of Jesus' aspects. John 1 tells us Jesus is the Light of the World. Life and light in all of mankind. John immediately sees in Jesus incredible Light. John 4 assures us Jesus is Living Water in a world thirsty for God and renewal and refreshment. So thirsty for God that the relationship will need more and more of this zealously. John 6, Jesus will feed us all - Living Bread. Bread was toasted all day in the Temple, the aroma was profound. God is nourishing all of us in all our senses.
John tells us in the first chapter, people Cry Out to explain Jesus, John is trying to explain God walking among them willingly and with Joy being the Light of mankind, as the Titles Jesus Can Completely Cover.
How much more we come to know Jesus as our relationship with Jesus deepens and how much more of Jesus He will reveal as we draw near and trust Jesus. Relationship. Love.
41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother 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 draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “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 the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and 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 abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.”
(For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
Jesus is explaining doing our best to be in God, will not always have successes, but the people who continue to walk with you. Walk with Jesus, are the People God is giving you. Let us remember to stay with Jesus, when the wild winds of Life howl. To continue to Trust Jesus. Do this.
We are all on the same Journey - to present Father God our souls. Going Home, we want God to want to run to us.
67 So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” 71 He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.
Jesus and the Scriptures tell the truth. They don't try to play down Judas and say he was busy with paying the bills. Jesus doesn't smile and say the people Just Love Jesus. He tells them they want bread and to be fed. Jesus meets people where they truly are.
noun - The teaching or revelation of Christ.
A thing that is absolutely true.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness
Father, Thank you for each and every day you have blessed us here on Earth.
Thank you for your tender mercies.
Thank you for giving us friends and family with which to share joys and sorrows.
I ask you to bless my friends, relatives, brothers and sisters in Christ and those I care for deeply, who are reading this right now.
Where there is joy, give them continued joy.
Where there is pain or sorrow, give them your peace and mercy.
Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence.
Where there is need, fulfill their needs.
Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.
In Jesus' name. Amen.
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