1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Jesus therefore, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these 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 is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive 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 these among so many?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down, likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea. 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. 18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. 20 But he said to them, "It is I. Don’t be afraid." 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. 23 However, boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

26 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’"

32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

34 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."

35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. 37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." 42 They said, "Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’"

43 Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me 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 which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." 59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"

61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 64 But there are some of you who don’t believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. 65 He said, "For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

66 At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don’t also want to go away, do you?"

68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

70 Jesus answered them, "Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

1 Daarna het Jesus na die oorkant van die see van Galil,a, dit is, van Tib,rias, gegaan;

2 en 'n groot menigte het Hom gevolg, omdat hulle sy tekens gesien het wat Hy aan die siekes doen.

3 En Jesus het op die berg geklim en daar met sy dissipels gaan sit.

4 En die pasga, die fees van die Jode, was naby.

5 Toe Jesus dan sy oë opslaan en sien dat 'n groot menigte na Hom kom, sê Hy vir Filippus: Waarvandaan sal ons brood koop, sodat hierdie mense kan eet?

6 Maar Hy het dit gesê om hom op die proef te stel, want Hy het self geweet wat Hy wou doen.

7 Filippus antwoord Hom: Brood vir twee honderd pennings sal nie genoeg wees vir hulle, sodat elkeen van hulle 'n stukkie kan kry nie.

8 Een van sy dissipels, Andr,as, Simon Petrus se broer, sê vir Hom:

9 Hier is 'n seuntjie wat vyf garsbrode en twee vissies het, maar wat is dit vir so baie mense?

10 En Jesus sê: Laat die mense gaan sit. En daar was baie gras op die plek. Die manne het toe gaan sit, omtrent vyf duisend in getal.

11 En Jesus het die brode geneem, en nadat Hy gedank het, deel Hy dit uit aan die dissipels en die dissipels aan die wat daar sit; so ook van die vissies, soveel as hulle wou hê.

12 En nadat hulle versadig was, sê Hy vir sy dissipels: Maak die brokstukke bymekaar wat oorgeskiet het, sodat niks verlore gaan nie.

13 Hulle maak toe bymekaar en het twaalf mandjies gevul met brokstukke van die vyf garsbrode wat oorgeskiet het by die wat geëet het.

14 Toe die mense dan die teken sien wat Jesus gedoen het, sê hulle: Hy is waarlik die profeet wat in die wêreld sou kom.

15 En toe Jesus merk dat hulle wou kom en Hom met geweld neem om Hom koning te maak, het Hy weer weggegaan na die berg, Hy alleen.

16 En toe dit aand geword het, het sy dissipels afgegaan na die see toe.

17 En nadat hulle in die skuit geklim het, het hulle oor die see gevaar na Kap,rnam; en dit was al donker, en Jesus het nog nie by hulle gekom nie.

18 En die see was onstuimig, omdat 'n sterk wind gewaai het.

19 En toe hulle omtrent drie of vier myl geroei het, sien hulle Jesus op die see loop en naby die skuit kom; en hulle het bang geword.

20 Maar Hy sê vir hulle: Dit is Ek, moenie vrees nie.

21 Toe was hulle gewillig om Hom in die skuit te neem, en dadelik het die skuit by die land aangekom waar hulle na toe gegaan het.

22 Die volgende dag sien die skare wat oorkant die see gestaan het, dat daar geen ander skuit was nie, behalwe daardie een waarin sy dissipels gegaan het; en dat Jesus nie saam met sy dissipels in die skuit gegaan het nie, maar dat sy dissipels alleen weggevaar het.

23 Maar ander skuite het van Tib,rias aangekom naby die plek waar hulle die brood geëet het, nadat die Here gedank het.

24 Toe die skare dan sien dat Jesus nie daar was nie en sy dissipels ook nie, het hulle self ook in die skuite geklim en na Kap,rnam gegaan om Jesus te soek.

25 En toe hulle Hom oorkant die see gevind het, sê hulle vir Hom: Rabbi, wanneer het U hier gekom?

26 Jesus antwoord hulle en sê: Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, julle soek My nie omdat julle tekens gesien het nie, maar omdat julle van die brode geëet en versadig geword het.

27 Moenie werk om die spys wat vergaan nie, maar om die spys wat bly tot in die ewige lewe, wat die Seun van die mens julle sal gee; want Hom het God, die Vader, verseël.

28 Toe vra hulle Hom: Wat moet ons doen om die werke van God te volbring?

29 Jesus antwoord en sê vir hulle: D¡t is die werk van God, dat julle in Hom glo wat Hy gestuur het.

30 En hulle sê vir Hom: Watter teken doen U dan, sodat ons kan sien en U glo? Wat werk U?

31 Ons vaders het die manna in die woestyn geëet, soos geskrywe is: Hy het brood uit die hemel aan hulle gegee om te eet.

32 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, dit is nie Moses wat die brood uit die hemel aan julle gegee het nie, maar my Vader gee julle die ware brood uit die hemel.

33 Want die brood van God is Hy wat uit die hemel neerdaal en aan die wêreld die lewe gee.

34 Toe sê hulle vir Hom: Here, gee ons altyd hierdie brood.

35 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Ek is die brood van die lewe; wie na My toe kom, sal nooit honger kry nie; en wie in My glo, sal nooit dors kry nie.

36 Maar Ek het vir julle gesê dat julle My gesien het, en tog glo julle nie.

37 Al wat die Vader My gee, sal na My toe kom; en Ek sal hom wat na My toe kom, nooit uitwerp nie.

38 Want Ek het uit die hemel neergedaal, nie om my wil te doen nie, maar die wil van Hom wat My gestuur het.

39 En dit is die wil van die Vader wat My gestuur het, dat al wat Hy My gegee het, Ek daarvan nie sal verloor nie, maar dit opwek in die laaste dag.

40 En dit is die wil van Hom wat My gestuur het, dat elkeen wat die Seun aanskou en in Hom glo, die ewige lewe mag hê; en Ek sal hom opwek in die laaste dag.

41 Toe murmureer die Jode oor Hom, omdat Hy gesê het: Ek is die brood wat uit die hemel neergedaal het.

42 En hulle sê: Is Hy nie Jesus, die seun van Josef, wie se vader en moeder ons ken nie? Hoe sê Hy dan: Ek het uit die hemel neergedaal?

43 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hulle: Moenie onder mekaar murmureer nie.

44 Niemand kan na My toe kom as die Vader wat My gestuur het, hom nie trek nie; en Ek sal hom opwek in die laaste dag.

45 Dit is geskrywe in die profete: En hulle sal almal deur God geleer wees. Elkeen dan wat dit van die Vader gehoor en geleer het, kom na My toe.

46 Nie dat iemand die Vader gesien het nie, behalwe Hy wat van God kom: Hy het die Vader gesien.

47 Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, wie in My glo, het die ewige lewe.

48 Ek is die brood van die lewe.

49 Julle vaders het die manna in die woestyn geëet en het gesterwe.

50 D¡t is die brood wat uit die hemel neerdaal, sodat iemand daarvan kan eet en nie sterwe nie.

51 Ek is die lewende brood wat uit die hemel neergedaal het. As iemand van hierdie brood eet, sal hy lewe tot in ewigheid. En die brood wat Ek sal gee, is my vlees wat Ek vir die lewe van die wêreld sal gee.

52 Die Jode het toe met mekaar gestry en gesê: Hoe kan Hy ons sy vlees gee om te eet?

53 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, as julle nie die vlees van die Seun van die mens eet en sy bloed drink nie, het julle geen lewe in julleself nie.

54 Hy wat my vlees eet en my bloed drink, het die ewige lewe, en Ek sal hom opwek in die laaste dag.

55 Want my vlees is waarlik spys, en my bloed is waarlik drank.

56 Wie my vlees eet en my bloed drink, bly in My en Ek in hom.

57 Soos die lewende Vader My gestuur het, en Ek deur die Vader lewe, so sal hy wat My eet, ook deur My lewe.

58 D¡t is die brood wat uit die hemel neergedaal het -- nie soos julle vaders die manna geëet en gesterwe het nie; wie hierdie brood eet, sal tot in ewigheid lewe.

59 Hierdie dinge het Hy gesê in die sinagoge toe Hy in Kap,rnam onderrig gegee het.

60 En baie van sy dissipels het gesê toe hulle dit hoor: Hierdie woord is hard, wie kan daarna luister?

61 En Jesus het in Homself geweet dat sy dissipels hieroor murmureer, en Hy sê vir hulle: Is dit julle tot 'n aanstoot?

62 Hoe dan as julle die Seun van die mens daarheen sien opvaar waar Hy tevore was?

63 Dit is die Gees wat lewend maak, die vlees is van geen nut nie; die woorde wat Ek tot julle spreek, is gees en is lewe.

64 Maar daar is sommige van julle wat nie glo nie. Want Jesus het van die begin af geweet wie hulle was wat nie glo nie, en wie hy was wat Hom sou verraai.

65 En Hy sê: Om hierdie rede het Ek vir julle gesê dat niemand na My toe kan kom as dit hom nie deur my Vader gegee is nie.

66 Hieroor het baie van sy dissipels teruggegaan en nie meer saam met Hom gewandel nie.

67 Toe sê Jesus vir die twaalf: Wil julle nie ook weggaan nie?

68 En Simon Petrus antwoord Hom: Here, na wie toe sal ons gaan? U het die woorde van die ewige lewe.

69 En ons het geglo en erken dat U die Christus is, die Seun van die lewende God.

70 Jesus antwoord hulle: Het Ek nie julle twaalf uitverkies nie? En een van julle is 'n duiwel!

71 En Hy het bedoel Judas Isk riot, die seun van Simon; want hy sou Hom verraai, hy wat een van die twaalf was.