John 6:26

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Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, you are seeking me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the bread and were satisfied.'

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  • Jas 4:3-4 : 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.
  • Ps 106:12-14 : 12 Then they believed His words; they sang His praise. 13 But they quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel. 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money. 19 He said, 'Give me this authority too, so that everyone I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.' 20 But Peter said to him, 'May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!' 21 You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.'
  • John 6:2 : 2 A large crowd was following him because they were seeing the signs he was performing on those who were sick.
  • John 6:15 : 15 Knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
  • John 6:24 : 24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.
  • John 6:30 : 30 So they said to him, 'What sign will you perform, so that we may see and believe you? What will you do?'
  • John 6:47 : 47 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.
  • John 6:64 : 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.' For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.

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  • John 6:27-36
    10 verses
    81%

    27'Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him, God the Father has set his seal of approval.'

    28Then they said to him, 'What must we do to perform the works of God?'

    29Jesus answered them, 'This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he has sent.'

    30So they said to him, 'What sign will you perform, so that we may see and believe you? What will you do?'

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

    32Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.'

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

    34They said to him, 'Sir, always give us this bread.'

    35Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.'

    36'But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.'

  • John 6:23-25
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    77%

    23(Other small boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.)

    24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

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

  • John 6:5-6
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    5When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, 'Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?'

    6He said this to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do.

  • John 7:36
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    36What does He mean when He said, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

  • John 6:48-53
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    75%

    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

    51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, they will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

    52Then the Jews argued sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'

    53Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'

  • John 6:58
    74%

    58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.

  • Mark 6:36-38
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    74%

    36'Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.'

    37But He answered them, 'You give them something to eat.' They said to Him, 'Should we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?'

    38He asked them, 'How many loaves do you have? Go and see.' When they found out, they said, 'Five, and two fish.'

  • John 4:32-33
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    74%

    32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

    33So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?"

  • John 6:41
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    41At this, the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, 'I am the bread that came down from heaven.'

  • Matt 16:8-11
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    8Aware of this, Jesus said, "You of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves about not having bread?

    9Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you gathered?

    10Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many large baskets you gathered?

    11How is it that you do not understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

  • Mark 8:4
    73%

    4The disciples answered him, 'Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy these people here in this deserted place?'

  • John 5:39-40
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    73%

    39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Matt 14:16
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    16But Jesus replied, 'They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.'

  • Mark 8:16-17
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    72%

    16They began discussing with one another, saying, 'We have no bread.'

    17Aware of this, Jesus said to them, 'Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened?'

  • Matt 15:33
    72%

    33His disciples replied, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”

  • John 6:14
    72%

    14When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, 'This truly is the Prophet who is to come into the world.'

  • Luke 6:3
    72%

    3Jesus answered them, "Have you not even read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?

  • Luke 9:13
    72%

    13But he said to them, 'You give them something to eat.' They replied, 'We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all these people.'

  • Mark 6:42
    72%

    42They all ate and were satisfied.

  • John 21:5
    72%

    5Jesus said to them, 'Children, do you have any fish?' They answered him, 'No.'

  • John 6:11-12
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    72%

    11Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks, he distributed them to those who were reclining, and likewise the fish, as much as they wanted.

    12When they were full, he said to his disciples, 'Gather up the leftover pieces so that nothing is wasted.'

  • Mark 6:52
    72%

    52for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

  • John 6:2
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    2A large crowd was following him because they were seeing the signs he was performing on those who were sick.

  • John 7:34
    71%

    34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'