#John 6

[tabernacleheart]

...Christ, in His sweetness and His gentle sustaining help, comes near to us all across the sea of sorrow and trouble. A more tender, a more gracious sense of His nearness to us is ever granted to us in the time of our darkness and our grief than is possible to us in the sunny hours of joy. It is always the stormy sea that Christ comes across, to draw near to us; and they who have never experienced the tempest have yet to learn the inmost sweetness of His presence. When it is night, and it is dark, at the hour which is the keystone of night’s black arch, Christ comes to us, striding across the stormy waters. Sorrow brings Him near to us. Do you see that sorrow does not drive you away from Him!

Alexander MacLaren; Commentary on John 6:16-21

#Alexander MacLaren #John 6:19 #John 6 #i can attest to this #this means so much to me #dark night of the soul #God is with us even now #jesus christ #Sorrow #Divine sorrow #i love this so much #do not despair #do not be afraid #Biblical commentary

[roratecaeli]

I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 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.

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

Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. 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. 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.

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

'El Salvador Con La Eucaristía' 1550 by Vicente Juan Masip

#John 6 #Corpus Christi #Holy Eucharist #Bread of Life #roman catholic #catholic #traditional catholic #christianity #christian

[therevlisad]

False Following, three prayers inspired by John 6.24-35

I am the Bread of Life by Kennedy A Paizs. “I want to desire Jesus as much as I desire to eat each day to sustain my physical life.” John 6:25-27When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not…

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#bread #confess #discipleship #false god #following Jesus #Jesus Christ #John 6 #motivation #repentance #self examination #self reflection

[helpfromheaven]

Seeking Jesus for the Right Reasons: A Devotional

John 6: 24-27 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You come here?”Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and…

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#Bible #bread of life #Christian Blogger #Daily devotional #inspiration #John 6 #miracles #seeking Jesus

[possil]

A SMALLL BAND

Responses The post ‘It’s Over – Prepare For The Future’ provoked interesting responses on the blog, where it was published elsewhere, and privately.  Perhaps the most perceptive response came in a personal email from Kathy Gyngel, editor of TCW Defending Freedom: ‘I think it is fundamentally about understanding humility – the understanding we cannot change other people, we can only change…

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#Bible #Christian Survival #John 6 #Minority Faith #Persecuted Christians

[1martinwilliams]

Scriptures From God To Us Statement 12 God spoke they wrote #scriptues #holyscriptures #john6

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[harrisonwoodard-blog]

#jesus #miracles of jesus #christianity #peter #walk on water #matthew 14 #Mark 6 #John 6 #sea of galilee #bible story

[reedreadsgreek]

John 6, Reed's Version

Some time later, Jesus was traveling beyond the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). A huge crowd was following him because of the signs he’d been doing, healing the sick. Then Jesus went up the hillside and sat there with his apprentices. Now, this was near the time of the Jewish festival of Passover.

When Jesus looked up and saw that the crowd was approaching, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?” (Now Jesus already knew what he was going to do; he just wanted to see what Philip would say.) And Philip responded, “If we had ten-thousand dollars worth of bread, it would only be enough for each person to get a single bite!” Another one of his apprentices, Andrew (Simon Peter’s brother), said, “There’s a boy here who has two loaves of barley and two fish. But what good is that for so many people?” Jesus told them, “Have all the people sit down,” since it was a grassy area. So they sat down (the men alone numbered about five thousand). Then Jesus took the loaves, said a prayer, and then handed it out to everyone as they sat. Then he did the same with the fish. And everyone had as much as they wanted. When everyone had eaten their fill, Jesus told his disciples, “Go pick up all the leftover pieces so nothing is wasted.” So they did, and from the five original loaves they filled up twelve large baskets of pieces that the people had left behind. When the people saw Jesus perform this miracle, they began to say to one another, “He must really be the prophet who was foretold to come into the world!” But Jesus knew that they wanted to come and make him king by force, so he retreated further up the hillside by himself.

When it got to be evening, the apprentices went down to the shore, got into a boat, and set out for Capernaum across the lake. Later, after it was dark, before Jesus had joined them, the sea began to grow rough by a strong wind that was blowing. After they’d rowed about three or four miles, they suddenly saw Jesus coming toward them, walking on the water! And as he drew near to the boat, they were terrified. But he said, “Don’t be afraid. It’s just me,” so then they were willing to let him into the boat. And just then, the boat arrived at shore, at just the place where they had been headed.

The next morning, back at the place where the lord had given thanks and multiplied the bread, the people looked around and couldn’t find Jesus. They remembered that there had only been one boat the day before, and that the disciples had set off in it without him. But some boats from the nearby town of Tiberias had blown ashore there during the night, so the crowd set off in them toward Capernaum to look for Jesus. And when they found him on the far side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, how did you get here?”

Jesus replied, “I know the truth, that you’re not looking for me because you were moved by the miracles you saw me do, but because you got free bread and now you want more. Stop striving for food that won’t last! Strive for food that will last into eternity. The Son of Man will give you this food, as he comes with God the Father’s full approval.” So the people said, “What does God require of us in order to get such food?” Jesus replied: “Merely this: believe in the person He has sent.”

Then they asked him, “So what miracle are you going to perform for us so we’ll believe you? Our ancestors believed Moses because they miraculously got manna to eat every day, like Scripture says, ‘He gave them food from heaven to eat.’” But Jesus told them, “I assure you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the food from heaven, but my Father. And He’s still providing real food to you, food that’s not of this earth but that comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”

So they said, “Sir, give us this bread every day like Moses did!” But Jesus said, “The bread is me! I am the bread that gives life. Whoever presses on toward me will never be hungry again; whoever believes in me will never be thirsty ever again. But despite everything you’ve seen, you still won’t believe. Everyone the Father gives to me will be with me, and I will never reject any of them. You see, I came from heaven not to do what I want, but what my Father wants. And this is what He wants: for me to keep secure everyone whom He has given me, and raise them from the dead on the last day of this age. Again, this is what my Father wills: that everyone who investigates the Son and then places their faith in him will obtain eternal life; I will resurrect them when this world comes to an end.”

Then the Jewish leaders began whispering about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “This guy is Jesus, Joseph’s son, right? We know his family and where he came from! So how can he claim to come from heaven?” But Jesus replied, “Stop whispering to one another. The only people who can accept me are those whom the Father has drawn to me. Those are the ones I will resurrect when this world ends. In Scripture, Isaiah the prophet says, ‘One day everyone will learn directly from God.’ Indeed, whoever listens to God and learns from him will come to me. (That’s not to say that they’ve seen the Father directly; only the one who came from God has seen Him.) I assure you, if you believe, then you have everlasting life. I am the bread that gives life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert but they still died. But this bread that comes from heaven, whoever eats it will never die! This living bread that came down from heaven is me. Whoever eats this bread will live for eternity. And this bread that I give to bring new life to the world is my very own body.”

Then things got even more heated, and the Jewish leaders objected, “How does he think that he can give us his body to eat?” So Jesus told them, “I’m not kidding. If you won’t eat the Son of Man’s flesh or drink his blood, you have no life in you. But anyone who will ingest my flesh and my blood has life forever, because I will raise them from the dead in the new world. My flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. All those who ingest my flesh and drink my blood become a part of me, and I become a part of them. I have my life through the life-giving Father who sent me, and in the same way those who ingest me will have life through me. This bread from heaven is not like the manna your ancestors ate, because they still died. But ingesting this bread will make you live forever.”

Now, this discussion took place while Jesus was teaching in the Capernaum synagogue.

By now, many of Jesus’s own followers were whispering, “This teaching is too difficult. Who could accept it?” But Jesus knew in his heart that they were saying this, and he asked them, “Is this tripping you up? Do I need to fly back up to heaven, where I used to be, in order for you to believe? God’s Spirit is what gives life; no human power can do this. And the Spirit uses my words to lead you to life. But some of you still won’t believe.” (Of course this was no surprise to Jesus, who already knew who would refuse to believe, and which one was going to get him arrested.) And Jesus continued, “That’s why I told you that no one can come to me in faith unless the Father has first enabled them to do so.”

This was the breaking point for many of Jesus’s followers, who now deserted him and returned to their lives. So Jesus asked his twelve closest followers, “What about you? Do you want to leave me, too?” But Simon Peter replied, “Lord, who would we follow instead? You’re the one with the message about everlasting life. We believe and are still convinced that you’re God’s Holy One.” Jesus replied, “That’s why I chose you to be my twelve closest companions. And yet, one of you is in league with the devil!” By this he meant Judas, the son of Simon from Kerioth. He was one of the Twelve, and yet he’s the one who later turned Jesus in.

#John #John 6 #John RV #RV

[galaghiel]

michael's running out of options so he found the next best thing to a ghostbuster or something

#fnaf #faith the unholy trinity #michael afton #john ward #crossover #fnaf 6 au #more like an au of an au??? #me doods #i just want these two to meet okay i think it would be interesting

[re4med]

The Morning Devotional: WCF 10.1

The Morning Devotional for March 28, 2023 The Westminster Confession of Faith 10.1 I. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call,a by his Word and Spirit,b out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;cenlightening their minds, spiritually and…

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#1 Corinthians 2 #Acts 13 #call #calling #devotional #effectual call #Ephesians 1 #Ephesians 2 #Ezekiel 11 #Ezekiel 36 #John 6 #Westminster Confession of Faith

[read-and-reflect]

The Sign of Bread

John 6:1-15 ‌The Setting Jesus chose a time and a place for the signs of John 6 that should call to mind the story and themes of the Exodus from Egypt. The last thing Jesus said in his discourse of chapter 5 was that Moses wrote about him, the Son of God. ‌Location: Tiberias The narrative of chapter 6 begins with Jesus going to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which verses 1 and 23 both…

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#Bread #Bread from Heaven #Gospel of John #John 6 #Sermon

[tabernacleheart]

[The miracle of the loaves & fishes in John 6 is a famous one, yet] there were certain people there without whom the miracle would not have been possible. First, there was Andrew. There is a contrast between Andrew and Philip. Philip was the man who said: "The situation is hopeless; nothing can be done." Andrew was the man who said: "I'll see what I can do; and I'll trust Jesus to do the rest." It was Andrew who brought that lad to Jesus, and by bringing him, made the miracle possible. No one ever knows what will come out of it when we bring someone to Jesus... Andrew did not know what he was doing when he brought that lad to Jesus that day, but he was providing material for a miracle. We never know what possibilities we are releasing when we bring someone to Jesus. Secondly, there was the boy. He had not much to offer, but in what he had, Jesus found the materials of a miracle. There would have been one great deed fewer in history if that boy had withheld his loaves and fishes. [By this we learn that] Jesus needs what we can bring Him. It may not be much but He needs it. It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Jesus what we have and what we are. If we would lay ourselves on the altar of His service, there is no saying what He could do with us and through us. We may be sorry and embarrassed that we have not more to bring-- and rightly so; but that is no reason for failing to bring what we have. Little is always much in the hands of Christ.

William Barclay

#william barclay #Saint andrew #The miracle of the loaves & fishes #John 6 #jesus christ #Miracles #evangelization #I am tragically guilty of this #Trust in god #Give your all to God #Nothing is impossible with God #Cooperation with God #A humbling truth #reflect on this

[dragonroilz]

Have some FAITH.

#faith #faith game #faith father garcia #faith john ward #newblood #faith airdorf #my art #this was gonna be a halloween piece but i lost motivation to finish it #then the faith survival update was announced #cranked this badboy out in like 6 hours? #its 5:30am #time for bed

[therevlisad]

Questions and Commitment - prayers inspired by John 6.56-59

Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy Turn and Return by Lisa DegreniaWhen Jesus speaks words of sacrifice, many want no part of it. They turn and walk away. You can hear the heartbreak and pain in his voice, “Do you also wish to go away?” The wound grows even deeper as Jesus states someone who stayed will eventually betray him. We fall awaySlip awayTurn awayHide awayRun awayPush awayGo our…

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#commitment #costly discipleship #doubt #following Jesus #Jesus Christ #John 6 #questions #repentance #surrender

[onlysushicat]

the sillies

#homestuck #413 #john egbert #rose lalonde #dave strider #jade harley #jane crocker #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #jake english #aradia megido #tavros nitram #sollux captor #karkat vantas #nepeta leijon #kanaya maryam #terezi pyrope #vriska serket #equius zahhak #gamzee makara #eridan ampora #feferi peixes #doodles #og art #thats a lot of tags #wanted to do the dancestors too but I only remember the design of 6 lol

[thesunpapaya]

hello there

i am here again genderbending the living shit out of saw

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