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So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk?'"

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished.

And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people can eat?"

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?"

Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand in number.

And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."

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

So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?"

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see it and believe you? What will you do?

So they said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread!"

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

So the Jews began to quarrel among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.