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# John 6

John 6 is chapter 6 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 72 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ feeds five thousand with five loaves. He walks upon the sea and discourses of the bread of life.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. After these things, Jesus traveled across the sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
2. And a great multitude was following him, for they saw the signs that he was accomplishing toward those who were infirm.
3. Therefore, Jesus went onto a mountain, and he sat down there with his disciples.
4. Now the Passover, the feast day of the Jews, was near.
5. And so, when Jesus had lifted up his eyes and had seen that a very great multitude came to him, he said to Philip, “From where should we buy bread, so that these may eat?”
6. But he said this to test him. For he himself knew what he would do.
7. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii of bread would not be sufficient for each of them to receive even a little.”
8. One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him:
9. “There is a certain boy here, who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are these among so many?”
10. Then Jesus said, “Have the men sit down to eat.” Now, there was much grass in that place. And so the men, in number about five thousand, sat down to eat.
11. Therefore, Jesus took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting down to eat; similarly also, from the fish, as much as they wanted.
12. Then, when they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments that are left over, lest they be lost.”
13. And so they gathered, and they filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which were left over from those who had eaten.
14. Therefore, those men, when they had seen that Jesus had accomplished a sign, they said, “Truly, this one is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15. And so, when he realized that they were going to come and take him away and make him king, Jesus fled back to the mountain, by himself alone.
16. Then, when evening arrived, his disciples descended to the sea.
17. And when they had climbed into a boat, they went across the sea to Capernaum. And darkness had now arrived, and Jesus had not returned to them.
18. Then the sea was stirred up by a great wind that was blowing.
19. And so, when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were afraid.
20. But he said to them: “It is I. Do not be afraid.”
21. Therefore, they were willing to receive him into the boat. But immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
22. On the next day, the crowd which was standing across the sea saw that there were no other small boats in that place, except one, and that Jesus had not entered into the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had departed alone.
23. Yet truly, other boats came over from Tiberias, next to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord gave thanks.
24. Therefore, when the crowd had seen that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they climbed into the small boats, and they went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25. And when they had found him across the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
26. Jesus answered them and said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen signs, but because you have eaten from the bread and were satisfied.
27. Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
28. Therefore, they said to him, “What should we do, so that we may labor in the works of God?”
29. Jesus responded and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.”
30. And so they said to him: “Then what sign will you do, so that we may see it and believe in you? What will you work?
31. Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32. Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33. For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34. And so they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
35. Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
36. But I say to you, that even though you have seen me, you do not believe.
37. All that the Father gives to me shall come to me. And whoever comes to me, I will not cast out.
38. For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
39. Yet this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise them up on the last day.
40. So then, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
41. Therefore, the Jews murmured about him, because he had said: “I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.”
42. And they said: “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Then how can he say: ‘For I descended from heaven?’”
43. And so Jesus responded and said to them: “Do not choose to murmur among yourselves.
44. No one is able to come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, has drawn him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
45. It has been written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened and learned from the Father comes to me.
46. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God; this one has seen the Father.
47. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life.
48. I am the bread of life.
49. Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.
50. This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.
51. I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.
52. If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.”
53. Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
54. And so, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
55. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
56. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
57. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
58. Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.
59. This is the bread that descends from heaven. It is not like the manna that your fathers ate, for they died. Whoever eats this bread shall live forever.”
60. He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
61. Therefore, many of his disciples, upon hearing this, said: “This saying is difficult,” and, “Who is able to listen to it?”
62. But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?
63. Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?
64. It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh does not offer anything of benefit. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
65. But there are some among you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were unbelieving and which one would betray him.
66. And so he said, “For this reason, I said to you that no one is able to come to me, unless it has been given to him by my Father.”
67. After this, many of his disciples went back, and they no longer walked with him.
68. Therefore, Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
69. Then Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
70. And we have believed, and we recognize that you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
71. Jesus answered them: “Have I not chosen you twelve? And yet one among you is a devil.”
72. Now he was speaking about Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For this one, even though he was one of the twelve, was about to betray him.

## John 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Post hæc abiit Jesus trans mare Galilææ, quod est Tiberiadis:
2. et sequebatur eum multitudo magna, quia videbant signa quæ faciebat super his qui infirmabantur.
3. Subiit ergo in montem Jesus et ibi sedebat cum discipulis suis.
4. Erat autem proximum Pascha dies festus Judæorum.
5. Cum sublevasset ergo oculos Jesus, et vidisset quia multitudo maxima venit ad eum, dixit ad Philippum: Unde ememus panes, ut manducent hi?
6. Hoc autem dicebat tentans eum: ipse enim sciebat quid esset facturus.
7. Respondit ei Philippus: Ducentorum denariorum panes non sufficiunt eis, ut unusquisque modicum quid accipiat.
8. Dicit ei unus ex discipulis ejus, Andreas, frater Simonis Petri:
9. Est puer unus hic qui habet quinque panes hordeaceos et duos pisces: sed hæc quid sunt inter tantos?
10. Dixit ergo Jesus: Facite homines discumbere. Erat autem fœnum multum in loco. Discubuerunt ergo viri, numero quasi quinque millia.
11. Accepit ergo Jesus panes: et cum gratias egisset, distribuit discumbentibus: similiter et ex piscibus quantum volebant.
12. Ut autem impleti sunt, dixit discipulis suis: Colligite quæ superaverunt fragmenta, ne pereant.
13. Collegerunt ergo, et impleverunt duodecim cophinos fragmentorum ex quinque panibus hordeaceis, quæ superfuerunt his qui manducaverant.
14. Illi ergo homines cum vidissent quod Jesus fecerat signum, dicebant: Quia hic est vere propheta, qui venturus est in mundum.
15. Jesus ergo cum cognovisset quia venturi essent ut raperent eum, et facerent eum regem, fugit iterum in montem ipse solus.
16. Ut autem sero factum est, descenderunt discipuli ejus ad mare.
17. Et cum ascendissent navim, venerunt trans mare in Capharnaum: et tenebræ jam factæ erant et non venerat ad eos Jesus.
18. Mare autem, vento magno flante, exsurgebat.
19. Cum remigassent ergo quasi stadia viginti quinque aut triginta, vident Jesum ambulantem supra mare, et proximum navi fieri, et timuerunt.
20. Ille autem dicit eis: Ego sum, nolite timere.
21. Voluerunt ergo accipere eum in navim et statim navis fuit ad terram, in quam ibant.
22. Altera die, turba, quæ stabat trans mare, vidit quia navicula alia non erat ibi nisi una, et quia non introisset cum discipulis suis Jesus in navim, sed soli discipuli ejus abiissent:
23. aliæ vero supervenerunt naves a Tiberiade juxta locum ubi manducaverant panem, gratias agente Domino.
24. Cum ergo vidisset turba quia Jesus non esset ibi, neque discipuli ejus, ascenderunt in naviculas, et venerunt Capharnaum quærentes Jesum.
25. Et cum invenissent eum trans mare, dixerunt ei: Rabbi, quando huc venisti?
26. Respondit eis Jesus, et dixit: Amen, amen dico vobis: quæritis me non quia vidistis signa, sed quia manducastis ex panibus et saturati estis.
27. Operamini non cibum, qui perit, sed qui permanet in vitam æternam, quem Filius hominis dabit vobis. Hunc enim Pater signavit Deus.
28. Dixerunt ergo ad eum: Quid faciemus ut operemur opera Dei?
29. Respondit Jesus, et dixit eis: Hoc est opus Dei, ut credatis in eum quem misit ille.
30. Dixerunt ergo ei: Quod ergo tu facis signum ut videamus et credamus tibi? quid operaris?
31. Patres nostri manducaverunt manna in deserto, sicut scriptum est: Panem de cælo dedit eis manducare.
32. Dixit ergo eis Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis: non Moyses dedit vobis panem de cælo, sed Pater meus dat vobis panem de cælo verum.
33. Panis enim Dei est, qui de cælo descendit, et dat vitam mundo.
34. Dixerunt ergo ad eum: Domine, semper da nobis panem hunc.
35. Dixit autem eis Jesus: Ego sum panis vitæ: qui venit ad me, non esuriet, et qui credit in me, non sitiet umquam.
36. Sed dixi vobis quia et vidistis me, et non creditis.
37. Omne quod dat mihi Pater, ad me veniet: et eum qui venit ad me, non ejiciam foras:
38. quia descendi de cælo, non ut faciam voluntatem meam, sed voluntatem ejus qui misit me.
39. Hæc est autem voluntas ejus qui misit me, Patris: ut omne quod dedit mihi, non perdam ex eo, sed resuscitem illud in novissimo die.
40. Hæc est autem voluntas Patris mei, qui misit me: ut omnis qui videt Filium et credit in eum, habeat vitam æternam, et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die.
41. Murmurabant ergo Judæi de illo, quia dixisset: Ego sum panis vivus, qui de cælo descendi,
42. et dicebant: Nonne hic est Jesus filius Joseph, cujus nos novimus patrem et matrem? quomodo ergo dicit hic: Quia de cælo descendi?
43. Respondit ergo Jesus, et dixit eis: Nolite murmurare in invicem:
44. nemo potest venire ad me, nisi Pater, qui misit me, traxerit eum; et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die.
45. Est scriptum in prophetis: Et erunt omnes docibiles Dei. Omnis qui audivit a Patre, et didicit, venit ad me.
46. Non quia Patrem vidit quisquam, nisi is, qui est a Deo, hic vidit Patrem.
47. Amen, amen dico vobis: qui credit in me, habet vitam æternam.
48. Ego sum panis vitæ.
49. Patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto, et mortui sunt.
50. Hic est panis de cælo descendens: ut si quis ex ipso manducaverit, non moriatur.
51. Ego sum panis vivus, qui de cælo descendi.
52. Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in æternum: et panis quem ego dabo, caro mea est pro mundi vita.
53. Litigabant ergo Judæi ad invicem, dicentes: Quomodo potest hic nobis carnem suam dare ad manducandum?
54. Dixit ergo eis Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis: nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis, et biberitis ejus sanguinem, non habebitis vitam in vobis.
55. Qui manducat meam carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, habet vitam æternam: et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die.
56. Caro enim mea vere est cibus: et sanguis meus, vere est potus;
57. qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet, et ego in illo.
58. Sicut misit me vivens Pater, et ego vivo propter Patrem: et qui manducat me, et ipse vivet propter me.
59. Hic est panis qui de cælo descendit. Non sicut manducaverunt patres vestri manna, et mortui sunt. Qui manducat hunc panem, vivet in æternum.
60. Hæc dixit in synagoga docens, in Capharnaum.
61. Multi ergo audientes ex discipulis ejus, dixerunt: Durus est hic sermo, et quis potest eum audire?
62. Sciens autem Jesus apud semetipsum quia murmurarent de hoc discipuli ejus, dixit eis: Hoc vos scandalizat?
63. si ergo videritis Filium hominis ascendentem ubi erat prius?
64. Spiritus est qui vivificat: caro non prodest quidquam: verba quæ ego locutus sum vobis, spiritus et vita sunt.
65. Sed sunt quidam ex vobis qui non credunt. Sciebat enim ab initio Jesus qui essent non credentes, et quis traditurus esset eum.
66. Et dicebat: Propterea dixi vobis, quia nemo potest venire ad me, nisi fuerit ei datum a Patre meo.
67. Ex hoc multi discipulorum ejus abierunt retro: et jam non cum illo ambulabant.
68. Dixit ergo Jesus ad duodecim: Numquid et vos vultis abire?
69. Respondit ergo ei Simon Petrus: Domine, ad quem ibimus? verba vitæ æternæ habes:
70. et nos credidimus, et cognovimus quia tu es Christus Filius Dei.
71. Respondit eis Jesus: Nonne ego vos duodecim elegi: et ex vobis unus diabolus est?
72. Dicebat autem Judam Simonis Iscariotem: hic enim erat traditurus eum, cum esset unus ex duodecim.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1338: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 549: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 439: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 559: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2835: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 698: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 728: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1296: The Signs and the Rite of Confirmation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1094: The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 423: I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 606: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2824: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1001: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 989: "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 161: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 994: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 591: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 259: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1428: The Conversion of the Baptized ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 151: "I Know Whom I Have Believed" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1355: The Liturgical Celebration of the Eucharist ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2837: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1384: The Paschal Banquet ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2837: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1524: Viaticum, the Last Sacrament of the Christian ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1509: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 787: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1391: The Paschal Banquet ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1336: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 473: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 440: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2766: The Lord's Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 438: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote against death, that we should live forever in Jesus Christ.” — St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians, 20, c. 107 (On this theme: verse 51)
- “Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven.” — St. Pius X, popular saying, source unconfirmed (Attributed: verse 51)
- “Our bodies, receiving the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, having the hope of the resurrection to eternity.” — St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, V.2.3, c. 180 (On this theme: verse 54)
- “What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do; truth Himself speaks truly, or there's nothing true.” — St. Thomas Aquinas, Adoro Te Devote, c. 1264 (On this theme: verse 55)
- “Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.” — St. Alphonsus Liguori, Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, 1745 (On this theme: verse 56)
- “Our sharing in the body and blood of Christ has no other purpose than to make us become what we receive.” — St. Leo the Great, Sermon 63 on the Passion, c. 452 (On this theme: verse 56)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 44: Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free will under any necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.
- Verse 63: 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.
- Verse 64: 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 sacarament, 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.
- Verse 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.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Nov 2, 2026: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed — Gospel, John 6:37-40
- Wed, Mar 3, 2027: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, See John 6:63c, 68c
- Fri, Apr 9, 2027: Friday of the Second Week of Easter — Gospel, John 6:1-15
- Sat, Apr 10, 2027: Saturday of the Second Week of Easter — Gospel, John 6:16-21

29 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).