John 6:22-40

Christian Standard Bible

The Bread of Life

²² The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat.^[a](A) They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone. ²³ Some boats from Tiberias^(B) came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴ When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. ²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi,^(C) when did you get here?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw^[b] the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. ²⁷ Don’t work for the food that perishes^(D) but for the food that lasts for eternal life,^(E) which the Son of Man^(F) will give you, because God the Father^(G) has set his seal of approval on him.”

²⁸ “What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

²⁹ Jesus replied, “This is the work^(H) of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.”^(I)

³⁰ “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna^(J) in the wilderness,^(K) just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”^[c](L)

³² Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses^(M) didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ “I am^(N) the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me^(O) will ever be hungry,^(P) and no one who believes in me^(Q) will ever be thirsty^(R) again. ³⁶ But as I told you, you’ve seen me,^[d] and yet you do not believe. ³⁷ Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.^{(S) 38} For I have come down from heaven,^(T) not to do my own will, but the will of him^(U) who sent me. ³⁹ This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise^(V) them up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father: ^(W) that everyone who sees the Son^(X) and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise^(Y) him up on the last day.”