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And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

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

Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost."

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

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

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

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

For not even his brothers believed in him.

But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.