Study Desk

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick.

When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

Philip answered him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

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

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

for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

But among you there are some who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.

And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father."

He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.

for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come."