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But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

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

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

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life—the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me—that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

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

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

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 Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."