John 6:26

World English Bible (2000)

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jas 4:3-4 : 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
  • Ps 106:12-14 : 12 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. 13 They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel, 14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit." 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
  • John 6:2 : 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
  • John 6:15 : 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
  • John 6:24 : 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
  • John 6:30 : 30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
  • John 6:47 : 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
  • John 6:64 : 64 But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • John 6:27-36
    10 verses
    81%

    27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

    28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

    29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

    30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

    31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

    32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

    33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

    34 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."

    35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

    36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.

  • John 6:23-25
    3 verses
    77%

    23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

    24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

    25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

  • John 6:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

    6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

  • John 7:36
    75%

    36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

  • John 6:48-53
    6 verses
    75%

    48 I am the bread of life.

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

    50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

    51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

    52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

    53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

  • John 6:58
    74%

    58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

  • Mark 6:36-38
    3 verses
    74%

    36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

    37 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

    38 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."

  • John 4:32-33
    2 verses
    74%

    32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

    33 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

  • John 6:41
    74%

    41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

  • Matt 16:8-11
    4 verses
    73%

    8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'

    9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

    10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

    11 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

  • Mark 8:4
    73%

    4 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

  • John 5:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

    40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  • Matt 14:16
    73%

    16 But Jesus said to them, "They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."

  • Mark 8:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."

    17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

  • Matt 15:33
    72%

    33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

  • John 6:14
    72%

    14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."

  • Luke 6:3
    72%

    3 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

  • Luke 9:13
    72%

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

  • Mark 6:42
    72%

    42 They all ate, and were filled.

  • John 21:5
    72%

    5 Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."

  • John 6:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

    12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."

  • Mark 6:52
    72%

    52 for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

  • John 6:2
    71%

    2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

  • John 7:34
    71%

    34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."