Five Loaves and Two Fish

The Bread of Life · John 6

Story guide: The crowd crosses to Capernaum looking for Jesus. He redirects them from food that perishes toward believing in the one God sent and the true bread from heaven.

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1After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

2And a large crowd was following him, because they were seeing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

3Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

4The Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

5So Jesus, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread so that these may eat?”

6But he was saying this to test him, for he himself knew what he was about to do.

7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for them, so that each one may receive a little.”

8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,

9There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many?

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