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The Book of Jesus Chapter Seven: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
The Discourse in the Capernaum Synagogue
NARRATOR.
The next day after they had landed at Gennesaret, the people who had stayed on the other side of the lake saw that only one boat had
been there and that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had set off by themselves. However, other
boats that had put in from Tiberias landed near the place where the Lord had given thanks and the bread was eaten. When the people
saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they boarded the boats from Tiberias and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus.
When they found him, on the other side of the lake, they said to him:
PEOPLE.
Rabbi, when did you come here?
JESUS.
I tell you most sincerely, you're not looking for me because you've seen the signs, but because you ate the bread and were filled. Don't
work for food that can't last, but work for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him,
God the Father has set his seal.
PEOPLE.
What do we have to do to be able to labor in God's work's?
JESUS.
This is God's work's, that you believe in the one whom he has sent.
PEOPLE.
Then what sign will you show us so that we can see it and believe you? What work will you do? Our fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness as it is written; 'He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'
JESUS.
I tell you most sincerely, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father. It is He who gives you the true bread from
Heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world.
PEOPLE.
Lord, always give us this bread.
JESUS.
I am the bread of life, the person who comes to me will never hunger, the person who believes on me will never thirst. But as I have
said to you, that you also have seen me, but you still don't believe. Everything that the Father has given me, will come to me, and
whoever comes to me, I will in no way turn him away. Because I have come from Heaven, not to do my own will, but to do the will of
the one who sent me. Now the will of the Father who has sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but that I
should raise it up again on the Last Day. And this is the will of Him who sent me; that everyone who sees the Son and believes on him
may have everlasting life and that I will raise him up on the Last Day.
NARRATOR.
Meanwhile, the Jews were complaining to each other about Jesus, because he had said, 'I am the bread of life that came down from
Heaven'.
JEWS.
Isn't this Jesus, Joseph's son? We know his father and mother, so how can he say 'I came down from Heaven?'
NARRATOR.
Jesus said in reply:
JESUS.
Stop grumbling among yourselves!. No one can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise him up at
the Last Day. It is written in the prophets: 'And they will all be taught by God'.
Therefore, every man who has heard and has learned of the Father, comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, except the one
who is of God, he has seen the Father. I tell you most sincerely, everyone who believes on me has everlasting life. I am the bread of
life. Your father's did eat manna in the wilderness and they are dead, but this is the bread that comes down from Heaven, that a man
may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread
that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
NARRATOR.
The Jews then started arguing among themselves.
JEWS.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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