CHAP. VI.

Christ feeds 5000 with five loaves. FTER these things JESUS went A over the sea of giles, which

is that of Tiberias:

2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

3 JESUS therefore went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

4 Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. 5 When JESUS therefore had lifted up his eyes, and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?

6 And this he said to try him : for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him: Two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

8 One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, saith

to him:

9 There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves, and two fishes; but what are these among so many? 10 Then JESUS said: Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down,in number about five thousand.

11 And JESUS took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the fishes as much as they would.

12 And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they

be lost.

13 They gathered up therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.

14 Now those men, when they had seen what a miralce JESUS had done

said: This of a truth is the prophet
that is to come into the world.
therefore
that they would or when he knew

by force and make him king, fled
again into the mountain himself
alone.

16 And when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea. 17 And when they had gone up into a ship, they went over the sea to Capharnaum: and it was now dark, and JESUS was not come unto them.

18 And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew.

19 When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see JESUS walking upon the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship, and they were afraid.

20 But he saith to them: It is I: be not afraid.

21 They were willing therefore to take him into the ship: and presently the ship was at the land, to which they were going.

22 The next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea, saw that there was no other ship there but one, and that JESUS had not entered into the ship with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone.

23 But other ships came in from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where they had eaten the bread, the Lord giving thanks.

24 When therefore the multitude saw that JESUS was not there, nor his disciples, they took shipping, and came to Capharnaum seeking for JESUS.

25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

26 JESUS answered them, and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

27 Labour not for the meat Father that sent me: that every which perisheth, but for that which one who seeth the Son, and believendureth unto life everlasting, eth in him, may have life everlastwhich the Son of man will give ing, and I will raise him up in the you. For him hath God, the Fa- last day. ther, sealed.

28 They said therefore unto him: What shall we do that we may work the works of God?

29 JESUS answered, and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

30 They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew that we may see, and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

31 Qur fathers did eat manna in the desert as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

32 Then JESUS said to them Amen, amen I say to you, Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

34 They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.

35 And JESUS said to them: I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst.

36 But I said unto you, that you also have seen me, and you believe not.

37 All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 Now this is the will of the Father who sent me; that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again in the last day.

41 The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said, I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

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?

43 JESUS therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets : And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

47 Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

51 I am the living bread, which came down from heaven.

52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world.

53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

40 And this is the will of my 54 Then JESUS said to them :

Ver. 44. Draw him. Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free-will under any necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.

Amen, amen I say unto you: Ex-of man ascend up where he was be cept you eat the flesh of the Son of fore? man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life and I will raise him up in the last day.

56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

57 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.

60 These things he said teaching in the synagogue, in Caphar

naum.

61 Many therefore of his disciples hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?

62 But JESUS knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

64 It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

65 But there are some of you that believe not. For JESUS knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who he was that would betray him.

66 And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

67 After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him.

68 Then JESUS said to the twelve: Will you also go away?

69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

70 And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ the Son of God.

71 JESUS answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

72 Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas 63 If then you shall see the Son he was one of the twelve.

Ver. 54. Except you eat-and drink, &c. To receive both the body and blood of Christ is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the faithful fulfil, though they receive but in one kind: because in one kind they receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from each other. Hence life eternal is here promised to the worthy receiving, though but in one kind, ver. 52. If any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world, ver. 58. He that eateth me shall live by me. ver. 59. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

Ver. 68. If then you shall see, &c. Christ by mentioning his ascension, by this instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of what he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross apprehension of eating his flesh and drinking his blood in a vulgar and carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body living with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be, as they supposed, divided, mangled and consumed upon earth.

Ver. 64. The flesh profiteth nothing. Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and carnal apprehension (which refuses to be subject to the spirit and words of Christ) profit any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity,) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profited us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.

Ver. 64. Are spirit and life. By proposing to you a heavenly sacrament, in which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit, grace, and life in its very fountain.

Christ teaches in the temple.
AFTER these things JESUS his that sent me.

walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

2 Now the Jews feast of taber-speak of myself. nacles was at hand.

3 And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Judea: that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

18 He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.'

4 For there is no man that doth 19 Did not Moses give you the any thing in secret, and he himself law, and yet none of you keepeth seeketh to be known openly. If the law? thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

11 The Jews therefore sought 26 And behold he speaketh openhim on the festival day, and said:ly, and they say nothing to him. Where is he? Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the CHRIST?

prehend him: and no man laid apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was hands upon him.

45 The ministers therefore came 31 But of the people many believed to the chief priests and the Phariin him, and said: When the CHRIST sees. And they said to them: Why cometh shall he do more miracles have you not brought him? than these which this man doth ? 32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

40 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words 4 And said to him: Master, this of his, some said: This is the pro-woman was even now taken in phet indeed. adultery.