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"Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?" they asked.

Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea-and they were terrified.

Then they were willing to take Him into the boat, and at once the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

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

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.

So they asked Him, "What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?

They were asking, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, 'I have come down from heaven?'"

It is written in the Prophets: 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me-

The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?

When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.

"Aren't you also from Galilee?" they replied. "Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee."

The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her."

At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight."