John 6

Reading John chapter 6 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.

Verses 1–10

1 After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),

2 and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

3 and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,

4 and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.

5 Jesus then having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --

6 and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

7 Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

8 one of his disciples--Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter--saith to him,

9 `There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these--what are they to so many?'

10 And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,

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