Verse 26

Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Referenced Verses

  • Jas 4:3-4 : 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
  • Ps 106:12-14 : 12 They believed his promises; they sang praises to him. 13 They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions. 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money, 19 saying,“Give me this power too, so that everyone I place 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 acquire God’s gift with money! 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
  • John 6:2 : 2 A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.
  • John 6:15 : 15 Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.
  • John 6:24 : 24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
  • John 6:30 : 30 So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
  • John 6:47 : 47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.
  • John 6:64 : 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.”(For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)