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45 alone? Do not think that I am he who will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, 46 in whom ye confide. For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me, for he wrote concerning But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Deu. 18; 15. 47 me.

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THE PEOPLE FED IN THE DESERT.

Mat. 14; 15
Mar. 6; 35
Lu. 9; 12.

VI. AFTERWARDS Jesus crossed the sea of Ga2 lilee [also called] of Tiberias: and a great multitude followed him, because they had seen the mi3 raculous cures which he performed. And Jesus went up upon a mountain; where he sat down 4 with his disciples. Now the passover, the Jewish festival, was near.

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Jesus lifting up his eyes, and perceiving that a great multitude was flocking to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread to feed these peo6 ple? (This he said to try him; for he knew himself what he was to do.) Philip answered, Two hundred denarii 42 would not purchase bread enough 8 to afford every one a morsel. One of his disciples,

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9 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, Here

is a boy who hath five barley loaves, and two small 10 fishes, but what are they among so many? Jesus said, Make the men lie down. Now there was much grass in the place. So they lay down in num11 ber about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves,

and having given thanks, distributed them to those 12 who had lien down. He gave them also of the fishes

as much as they would. When they had eaten suf ficiently, he said to his disciples, Gather up the frag13 ments which remain, that nothing be lost. They therefore gathered, and with the fragments which the people had left, of the five barley loaves, they 14 filled twelve baskets. When those men had seen the miracle which Jesus had wrought, they said, This is certainly the Prophet who cometh into the world. 15 Then Jesus knowing that they intended to come,

and carry him off to make him king, withdrew Mat. 14; 22again alone to the mountain.

16. In the evening his disciples went to the sea, and Mar. 6; 45having embarked, were passing by sea to Caper

naum.

It was now dark, and Jesus was not come 18 to them. And the water was raised by a tempes19 tuous wind. When they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs 43, they observed Jesus walking on the sea, very near the bark, and were 20 afraid. But he said to them, It is I, be not afraid. 21 Then they gladly received him into the bark; and the bark was immediately at the place whither they were going.

43 Between three and four miles.

CH. 6.

Mat. 3; 7.
Mar. 1; 11.
Lu. 3; 22.

Num. 11; 6.

Ps. 78; 25.

Wis. 16; 20.

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22 On the morrow, the people who were on the seaside, knowing that there had been but one boat there, and that Jesus went not into the boat with 23 his disciples, who went alone (other boats however arrived from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten, after the Lord had given thanks), 24 knowing, besides, that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, embarked and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

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Having found him on the opposite shore, they 26 said to him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? Jesus answered, Verily verily I say unto you, Ye seck me, not because ye saw miracles, but because 27 ye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied. Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which endureth through eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you: for to him the Father, that 28 is, God, hath given his attestation. They asked

him, therefore, What are the works which God 29 requireth us to do? Jesus answered, This is the

work which God requireth, that ye believe on 1 Jo. 3; 23. 30 him whom he hath commissioned. They replied, What miracle then dost thou, that seeing it, we Ex. 16; 14 31 may believe thee? What dost thou perform? Our Fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it is written, "He gave them bread of heaven to eat." 32 Jesus then said to them, Verily verily I say unto Moses did not give you the bread of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread of heaven: 33 for the bread of God is that which descendeth from 34 heaven, and giveth life to the world. They said,

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therefore, to him, Master, give us always this 35 bread. Jesus answered, I am the bread of life. He who cometh to me shall never hunger, and he who believeth on me shall never thirst.

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But as I told you, though ye have seen me, do not believe. Whatever the Father giveth me, will come to me; and him who cometh to me 38 I will not reject. For I descended from heaven to do, not mine own will, but the will of him who 39 sent me. Now this is the will of him who sent

me, that I should lose nothing of what he hath given me, but raise the whole again at the last day. 40 This is the will of him who sent me, that whoever recognizeth the Son and believeth on him, should obtain eternal life, and that I should raise him again at the last day.

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Mar. 6; 3.

The Jews then murmured against him, because he said, "I am the bread which descended from 42 "heaven:" and they said, Is not this Jesus, the Mat. 15; 55. son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then doth he say, "I descended from hea43 "ven?" Jesus therefore answered, Murmur not amongst yourselves: no man can come unto me, unless the Father who hath sent me, draw him ;

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44 and him I will raise again at the last day. It is Is. 54; 13. written in the prophets, They shall be all taught 45" of God." Every one who hath heard, and 46 learnt from the Father, cometh unto me.

Not Mat. 11; 27.

that any man, except him who is from God, hath seen the Father. He indeed hath seen the Father. 47 Verily verily I say unto you, He who believeth on

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48 me hath eternal life. I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the desert, and 50 died. Behold the bread which descended from 51 heaven, that whoso eateth thereof may not die. I am the living bread which descended from heaWhoso eateth of this bread shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world.

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The Jews, then, debated among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, Verily verily I say unto you, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son

of Man, and drink his blood, ye have not life in 54 you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him 55 again at the last day for my flesh is truly meat, 56 and my blood is truly drink. He who eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I 57 abide in him. As the Father liveth who sent me, even so he who feedeth This is the bread which

and I live by the Father; 58 on me, shall live by me.

descended from heaven.

which your fathers ate,

It is not like the manna for they died: he that

59 eateth this bread shall live for ever. This discourse he spake in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum. 60 Many of his disciples having heard it, said, 61 This is hard doctrine, who can understand it? Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, Doth this scandalize you? 62 What if ye should see the Son of Man reascend63 ing thither, where he was before? It is the Spirit

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