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"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?"

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.

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.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

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.

So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

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.

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.

So Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?"

So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

So there was a division among the people over him.

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"

So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."

So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."