Witnesses to Jesus

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.^{(A) 33} You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.^{(B) 34} I don’t receive human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ John^[a](C) was a burning and shining lamp,^(D) and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.^(E)

³⁶ “But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish.^(F) These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent^(G) me. ³⁷ The Father who sent me has himself testified^(H) about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven’t seen his form.^{(I) 38} You don’t have his word residing in you, because you don’t believe the one he sent. ³⁹ You pore over the Scriptures^(J) because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.^{(K) 40} But you are not willing^(L) to come to me^(M) so that you may have life.

⁴¹ “I do not accept glory^(N) from people, ⁴² but I know you—that you have no love for God^(O) within you. ⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name,^(P) and yet you don’t accept me.^(Q) If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don’t seek the glory that comes from the only^(R) God?^{(S) 45} Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses,^(T) on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you don’t believe what he wrote,^(U) how will you believe my words?”^(V)

The Fourth Sign: Feeding of the Five Thousand

6 After^(A) this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee^(B) (or Tiberias^(C)). ² A huge crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was performing by healing the sick. ³ Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

⁴ Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near. ⁵ So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him,^(D) he asked Philip,^(E) “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat?” ⁶ He asked this to test him,^(F) for he himself knew what he was going to do.

⁷ Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii^[a](G) worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew,^(H) Simon^(I) Peter’s^(J) brother, said to him, ⁹ “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.^{(K) 11} Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks he distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.^(L)

¹² When they were full, he told his disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”^{(M) 13} So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴ When the people saw the sign^[b] he had done, they said, “This truly is the Prophet^(N) who is to come^(O) into the world.”^(P)

¹⁵ Therefore, when Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king,^(Q) he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

The Fifth Sign: Walking on Water

¹⁶ When^(R) evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷ got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum.^(S) Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them. ¹⁸ A high wind arose, and the sea began to churn. ¹⁹ After they had rowed about three or four miles,^[c] they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid. ²⁰ But he said to them, “It is I.^[d](T) Don’t be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were willing to take him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

²¹ But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with six hundred thousand foot soldiers,^(A) yet you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ ²² If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” ^(B)

²³ The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm weak?^[a](C) Now you will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.”

The Multiplied Bread

⁴² A man from Baal-shalishah^(A) came to the man of God with his sack full of^[a] twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”^(B)

⁴³ But Elisha’s attendant asked, “What? Am I to set this before a hundred men?” ^(C)

“Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said, “for this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat, and they will have some left over.’” ⁴⁴ So he set it before them, and as the Lord had promised, they ate and had some left over.^(D)