Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus. They wanted Him to stay with them, so He did, for 2 days. Jesus was welcomed in Galilee, though a prophet has no honor in His own country. They had witnessed His miracles in Jerusalem because they were there too. He went back to Cana where He had turned the water into wine. An official came and begged Jesus to heal his sick son. Jesus told him his son would live and he believed Him and went home. On the way a servant came out to tell him his son was well. The official figured out that his son became well the moment Jesus told him his son would live.
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem, to the healing pool called Bethesda and saw a man who had not walked for 38 years. Jesus asked him if he wanted to get well. The man told Him there was no one to help him get into the pool before someone else got in. Jesus told him to pick up his mat and walk. So he did. Some Jews had a problem with the healed man carrying his mat because it was the Sabbath. He told them that the man who healed him told him to. Later, at the temple, he found out that he had been healed by Jesus. The Jews were all fired up because not only was Jesus working on the Sabbath, but he had the nerve to call God His own Father! They tried even harder to kill Jesus. Jesus explained many things in this passage: the Son does whatever the Father does, the Father has entrusted all judgement to the Son, the time was coming when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live, as the Father has life in himself so the Son has life in himself, Jesus did not seek to please Himself but God. There had been many testimonies about Jesus Christ. John the Baptist, the work that God sent Jesus to do was testimony to the truth, the Scriptures testify about Him, Moses wrote about Jesus, but they refused to believe Jesus was the Christ.
Some time after that, Jesus crossed the lake and a large crowd followed Him and He sat on a mountainside and taught them. Jesus fed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish. Jesus left them to be alone, because He knew they wanted to force Him to be their king. After sunset, the disciples got into the boat and set off across the lake, the waves got high and the disciples saw Jesus walking on the water toward them. At first they were scared, but Jesus told them not to be and they took Him into the boat and were immediately at the other shore. The next day the crowd still on the other side realized that Jesus wasn't there, but they knew He hadn't been in the boat. They went in search of Jesus. When they found Him they asked Him when He got there. Jesus told them they should work for food that endures to eternal life. Then He told them the work of God they needed to do was to believe in the one He has sent. They wanted a sign like manna from heaven. He told them it was His Father who gave them the bread of life, or Jesus Christ. Jesus told them He wasn't there to do whatever He wanted, but to do the will of God. They knew who His parents were and they couldn't understand what Jesus meant. Jesus said, "I am the bread of life." (6:48) Anyone who eats this bread will have eternal life.
Tomorrow read John 6:52-8:20
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