When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

The Pharisees told him, "You're testifying about yourself. Your testimony isn't valid."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?"

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

I and the Father are one."

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"