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The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
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Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
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The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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The Authority of the Son
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
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In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
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Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
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Testimonies About Jesus
“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),
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Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.
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When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
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Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
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Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
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After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
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Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
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Jesus Walks on the Water
When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,
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where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.
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When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened.
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The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.
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Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
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Jesus the Bread of Life
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
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Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
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Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
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Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’ ?”
