John 6:22-40

22The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat. They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone.

23Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

24When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

26Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

27Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal of approval on him.”

28“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

29Jesus replied, “This is the work of God — that you believe in the one he has sent.”

30“What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform?

31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

32Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

35“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.

36But as I told you, you’ve seen me, and yet you do not believe.

37Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.

38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

39This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise them up on the last day.

40For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”