Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

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.

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples