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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 6
5 Five thousand are fed with five loaves
and two fishes.
15 Christ goeth apart from the people.
17 As his disciples were rowing,
19 he cometh to them walking on the water.
26 He reasoneth of the true
27 and everlasting,
35 bread of life.
42 The Jews murmur,
60 and many of the disciples,
66 depart from him.
69 The Apostles confess him to be
the Son of God.
1 After these things, Jesus went his way
(a) over the (*) sea of Galilee, which is
() Tiberias.
(a) Not that he cut over the lake of Tiberias,
but by reason of the large creeks, his sailing
made his journey the shorter, therefore
he is said to have gone over the sea,
when as he passed over from one side
of a creek to the other.
(*) Called the lake of Gennesaret.
() Tiberias, Bethsaida, and Capernaum
were on this side the lake, in respect
of Galilee; but it is here said that he went
over, because there were divers creeks
and turnings, over the which men ferried.
2 And a great multitude followed him,
because they saw his miracles, which
he did on them that were diseased.
3 Then Jesus went up into a mountain,
and there he sat with his disciples.
4 Now the Passover a (*) feast of the Jews
was near.
(*) Leviticus 23:2; Deuteronomy 16:1 .
5 (*) (1) Then Jesus lifted up his eyes,
and seeing that a great multitude came
unto him, he said unto Philip, Whence
shall we buy bread, that these might eat?
(*) Matthew 14:16; Mark 6:37; Luke 9:13 .
(1) They that follow Christ do sometime
hunger, but they are never destitute of help.
6 (And this he said to prove him, for he
himself knew what he would do.)
7 Philip answered him, (*) Two hundred
pennyworth of bread is not sufficient
for them, that every one of them may
take a little.
(*) This sum amounteth to about five
pounds sterling.
8 Then said unto him one of his disciples,
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
9 There is a little boy here, which hath
five barley loaves, and two fishes, but
what are they among so many?
10 And Jesus said, Make the people sit down.
(Now there was much grass in that place.)
Then the men sat down, in number
about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the bread, and
(*) gave thanks, and gave to the disciples,
and the disciples to them that were set
down; and likewise of the fishes as much
as they would.
(*) Prayer and thanksgiving do sanctify
our meats wherewith we are nourished.
12 And when they were satisfied, he
said unto his disciples, Gather up the
broken meat which remaineth,
that (*) nothing be lost.
(*) The abundant store of God's gifts
ought not to make us prodigal to waste
them.
13 Then they gathered it together,
and filled twelve baskets with the broken
meat of the five barley loaves, which
remained unto them that had eaten.
14 Then the men, when they had seen
the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is
of a truth the Prophet that should come
into the world.
15 (2) When Jesus therefore perceived
that they would come, and take him to
make him a (*) King, he departed again
into a mountain himself alone.
(2) Christ is not only not delighted, but
also greatly offended with a preposterous
worship.
(*) They imagined an earthly kingdom
without the testimony of God's word,
so that by this means his spiritual kingdom
should have been abolished.
16 ¶ (3) When even was now come,
his disciples went down unto the sea,
(3) The godly are often in peril and danger,
but Christ cometh to them in time, even
in the midst of the tempests, and bringeth
them to the heaven.
17 (*) And entered into a ship, and went
() over the sea, (b) towards Capernaum.
And now it was dark, and Jesus was not
come to them.
(*) Matthew 14:25; Mark 6:47 .
() Over a corner of the lake.
(b) In Mark 6:45
they are willed to go before to Bethsaida,
for Bethsaida was in the way to Capernaum.
18 And the Sea arose with a great wind
that blew.
19 And when they had rowed about
five and twenty, or thirty (*) furlongs,
they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and
drawing near unto the ship; so they were
afraid.
(*) Whereof eight makes a mile.
20 But he said unto them, It is I;
be not afraid.
21 Then (c) willingly they received him
into the ship, and the ship was by and by
at the land, whither they went.
(c) They were afraid at the first, but when
they knew his voice, they became new men,
and took him willingly into the ship, whom
they shunned and fled from before.
22 ¶ The day following, the people which
stood on the other side of the sea, saw
that there was none other ship there, save
that one, whereinto his disciples were
entered, and that Jesus went not with his
disciples in the ship, but that his disciples
were gone (*) alone,
(*) Wherefore it must needs follow that
Christ passed miraculously.
23 And that there came other ships from
Tiberias near unto the place where
they ate the bread, after the Lord had
given thanks.
24 Now when the people saw that Jesus
was not there, neither his disciples, they
also took shipping, and came to Capernaum,
seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him
on the (*) other side of the sea, they
said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou
hither?
(*) This was not straight over the lake
from side to side, but over a creek
or arm of the lake, which saved much
labor to them that should have gone about
by land.
26 (4) Jesus answered them, and said,
Verily, verily I say unto you, Ye seek
me not, because ye saw the miracles, but
because ye ate of the loaves, and were
filled.
(4) They that seek the kingdom of heaven
lack nothing, notwithstanding the Gospel
is not the food of the belly, but of the mind.
27 (d) Labor not for the meat which
perisheth, but for the meat that () endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of man
shall give unto you, for him hath
(*) God the Father (e) () sealed.
(d) Bestow your labor and pain.
() Which nourisheth and augmenteth
our faith.
(*) John 1:32, Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:3 .
(e) That is, whom God the Father hath
distinguished from all other men by
planting his own virtue in him, as though
he had sealed him with his seal, that he
might be a lively pattern and representer
of him, and that more is, installed him to
this office, to reconcile us men to God,
and bring us to everlasting life, which is
only proper to Christ.
() For when he appointed him to be the
Mediator, he set his mark and seal in
him to be the only one to reconcile God
and man together.
28 Then said they unto him, What
shall we do, that we might work
the (f) (*) works of God?
(f) Which please God, for they think that
everlasting life hangeth upon the condition
of fulfilling the Law, therefore Christ calleth
them back to faith.
(*) Such as be acceptable unto God.
29 (5) Jesus answered, and said unto
them, (*) (g) This is the work of God,
that ye believe in him, whom he hath
sent.
(5) Men torment themselves in vain,
when they go about to please God without
faith.
(*) 1 John 3:23 .
(g) That is, this is the work that God
requireth, that you believe in me,
and therefore he calleth them back to
faith.
30 (6) They said therefore unto him,
What sign shewest thou then, that we
may see it, and believe thee?
What doest thou work?
(6) The spiritual virtue of Christ is
contemned of them which are desirous
of earthly miracles.
31 Our fathers did eat Manna in the
desert, as it is (*) written, He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.
(*) Exodus 16:14; Numbers 11:7; Psalm 78:25 .
32 (7) Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily I say unto you, (*) Moses
gave you not (h) that bread from heaven,
but my Father giveth you that true bread
from heaven.
(7) Christ, who is the true and only author
and giver of eternal life, was signified unto
the fathers in Manna.
(*) He compareth Moses with the Father,
and manna with Christ, who sendeth us
into everlasting life,
1 Corinthians 10:3 .
(h) He denieth that Manna was that true
heavenly bread, and saith that he himself
is that true bread, because he feedeth unto
the true and everlasting life.
And as for that which Paul in
1 Corinthians 10,
calleth Manna spiritual food, it maketh
nothing against this place, for he joineth
the thing signified with the sign; but in this
whole disputation, Christ dealeth with
the Jews after their own opinion and
conceit of the matter, and they had no
further consideration of the Manna,
but in that it fed the belly.
33 For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven, and giveth life
unto the world.
34 Then they said unto him, Lord, evermore
give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am that
bread (i) of life; he that cometh to me,
shall not hunger, and he that believeth in
me, shall (*) never thirst.
(i) Which have life, and give life.
(*) He shall never want spiritual nourishment.
36 But I say unto you, that ye also have
seen me, and believe not.
37 (8) All (*) that the Father giveth me,
shall come to me, and him that cometh
to me, I cast not away.
(8) The gift of faith proceedeth from the
free election of the Father in Christ, after
which followeth necessarily everlasting life;
Therefore faith in Christ Jesus is a sure
witness of our election, and therefore of
our glorification, which is to come.
(*) God doeth regenerate his elect, and
causeth them to obey the Gospel.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to
do my (k) own will, but his will which
hath sent me.
(k) Look above in John 5:22 .
39 And this is the Father's will which hath
sent me, that of all which he hath given me,
I should lose nothing, but should raise it
up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me,
that every man which (l) seeth the Son,
and believeth in him, should have everlasting
life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
(l) Seeing and believing are joined together,
for there is another kind of seeing, which
is general, which the devils have, for they
see; but here he speaketh of that kind of
seeing, which is proper to the elect.
41 (9) The Jews then murmured at him
because he said, I am the bread, which
is come down from heaven.
(9) Flesh cannot perceive spiritual things,
and therefore the beginning of our salvation
cometh from God, who changeth our nature,
so that we being inspired of him, may abide
to be instructed and saved by Christ.
42 And they said, (*) Is not this Jesus
the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know?
How then saith he, I came down from
heaven?
(*) Matthew 13:55 .
43 Jesus then answered, and said unto
them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can (*) come to me, except
the Father, which hath sent me, () draw
him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
(*) That is, or believe in me.
() By lightening his heart with his holy Spirit.
45 It is written in the (*) (m) Prophets,
And they shall be all (n) taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard, and
hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me;
(*) Isaiah 54:13; Jeremiah 31:33 .
(m) In the book of the Prophets, for the
old Testament was divided by them into
three several parts, into the Law, the
Prophets, and the Holy writ.
(n) To wit, they shall be children of the
Church, for so the Prophet Isaiah
expoundeth it,
Isaiah 54:13;
that is to say, ordained to life,
Acts 13:48,
and therefore the knowledge of the
heavenly truth, is the gift and work
of God, and standeth not in any power
of man.
46 (*) Not that any man hath seen the
Father, (o) save he which is of God,
he hath seen the Father.
(*) Matthew 11:27 .
(o) If only the Son hath seen the
Father, then it is he only that can teach
and instruct us truly.
47 Verily, verily I say unto you, he that
believeth in me, hath everlasting
life.
48 (10) I am that bread of life.
(10) The true use of Sacraments, is to
ascend from them to the thing itself,
that is to Christ, by the partaking of
whom only, we get everlasting life.
49 (*) Your fathers did eat Manna in the
wilderness, () and are dead.
(*) Exodus 16:15 .
() Then there is no food that can nourish
our souls, but Jesus Christ.
50 (p) This is the bread, which cometh
down from heaven, that he which eateth
of it, should not die.
(p) He pointed out himself when he
spake these words.
51 (11) I am that (q) living bread,
which came down from heaven; if any
man (r) eat of this bread, he shall live
forever; and the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I will give for the life of
the world.
(11) Christ being sent from the Father,
is the selfsame unto us for the getting
and keeping of everlasting life, as that
bread and flesh, yea meat and drink are
to the use of this transitory life.
(q) Which giveth life to the world.
(r) That is to say, whosoever is partaker
of Christ indeed, who is our food.
52 (12) Then the Jews strove among
themselves, saying, How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?
(12) Flesh cannot put a difference between
fleshly eating which is done by the help
of the teeth, and spiritual eating which
consisteth in faith, and therefore it
condemneth that which it understandeth
not; yet notwithstanding the truth must be
preached and taught.
53 Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily I say unto you, Except ye
eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink
his blood, ye have (s) (*) no life in you.
(s) If Christ be present, life is present,
but when Christ is absent, then is death
present.
(*) Where Christ is not, there death reigneth.
54 Whosoever (*) eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, hath eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
(*) 1 Corinthians 11:27 .
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed.
56 He (*) that eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, () dwelleth in me,
and I in him.
(*) As our bodies are sustained with meat
and drink; so are our souls nourished with
the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
() To eat the flesh of Christ and drink his
blood, is to dwell in Christ and to have
Christ dwelling in us.
57 As (t) the living Father hath sent me,
so live I by the (u) Father, and he that
eateth me, even he shall live by me.
(t) In that Christ is man, he receiveth that
power which quickeneth and giveth life
to them that are his, of his Father; and he
addeth this word (That) to make a
distinction between him and all other
fathers.
(u) Christ his meaning is, that though he
be man, yet his flesh can give life, not of
its own nature, but because that flesh of
his liveth by the Father, that is to say,
doeth suck and draw out of the Father,
that power which it hath to give life.
58 This is the bread which came down
from heaven; not as your fathers have
eaten Manna, and are dead.
He that eateth of this bread, shall live
forever.
59 These things spake he in the Synagogue,
as he taught in Capernaum.
60 (13) Many therefore of his disciples
(when they heard this) said, This is a hard
saying; who can (*) hear it?
(13) The reason of man cannot
comprehend the uniting of Christ and his
members, therefore let it worship and
reverence that which is better than itself.
(*) That is, understand it.
61 But Jesus knowing in himself, that
his disciples murmured at this, said unto
them, Doeth this offend you?
62 What then if ye should see the Son of
man () ascend up (*) where he was
before?
() He meaneth not that his humanity
descended from heaven; but he speaketh
touching the union of both natures,
attributing to the one that which
appertaineth to the other.
(*) John 3:13 .
63 (14) It is the (x) Spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh (*) profiteth nothing; the words
that I speak unto you, are spirit and life.
(14) The flesh of Christ doeth therefore
quicken us, because that he is man,
and he is God; which mystery is only
comprehended by faith, which is the gift
of God, proper only to the elect.
(x) Spirit, that is, that power which floweth
from the Godhead, causeth the flesh of
Christ, which otherwise were nothing but
flesh, to live in itself, and to give life to us.
(*) To wit, if it be separate from the Spirit,
whereof it hath the force; for it cometh
of the power of the Spirit that the flesh
of Christ giveth us life.
64 But there are some of you that believe
not.
For Jesus knew from the beginning, which
they were that believed not, and who should
betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you,
that no man can come unto me, except
it be given unto him of my Father.
66 (15) From that time, many of his
disciples went back, and walked no more
with him.
(15) Such is the malice of men, that they
take occasion of their own destruction,
even of the very doctrine of salvation
(unless it be a few, which believe through
the singular gift of God.)
67 Then said Jesus to the twelve,
Will ye also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him,
Master, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of (*) eternal life;
(*) For Them without Christ there is but
death; for his word only leadeth us to life.
69 And we believe and know that thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
70 (16) Jesus answered them, Have not
I (*) chosen you twelve, and () one of
you is a devil?
(16) The number of the professors of
Christ is very small, and among them
also there be some hypocrites, and
worse than all others.
(*) Matthew 26:16 .
() Although your number be small, yet
shall ye be diminished.
71 Now he spake it of Judas Iscariot
the son of Simon, for he it was that
should betray him, though he was one
of the twelve.
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