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

But he said to them, "It is I! Do not be afraid!"

On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.

Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven!

But I said to you that you have seen me and do not believe.

because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose any of them, but raise them up on the last day.

But Jesus, because he knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good man," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but is from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him—this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!"

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes—no one knows where he is from!"