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For the saying is true, ‘Someone plants, someone else reaps.'

For he himself had said, "Prophets are not respected in their own country."

After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, "This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry your mat."

But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was, for there was a crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed.

John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light.

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

"I am not looking for human praise.

But I know what kind of people you are, and I know that you have no love for God in your hearts.

The time for the Passover Festival was near.

Philip answered, "For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread."

"There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."

Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.

When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.

Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."