Tuesday, December 14, 2021

A Fresh Translation of John 6

With these things Yeshua came out on the other side of the Sea of Galilee of Tiberias. And a lot of crowd were following Him, because they watched the omens which He was doing upon the sick. And Yeshua came up into the mountain and was sitting there with His disciples. And the Pascha was near, the holy day of the Iudaeans. Yeshua then, lifting up His eyes and having watched that a lot of crowd is coming in His direction says towards Philippos, “From where would we buy loaves of bread so that these folks would eat?” And He was saying this thing expecting him to get the wrong answer; because He Himself knew what He intended to do. Philippos answered Him, “Two hundred denarii’s worth of loaves of bread wouldn’t be enough for them so that each would get something small.” One of His disciples, Andreas the brother of Shimon Petros, says to Him, “There’s a little boy here who holds five loaves of barley bread and two small jars of fish paste; but what are these things as far as such ones as these? Yeshua said, “Make the people to recline on the ground.” And there was a lot of grass in the place. The men, the number like five thousand, reclined on the ground. Yeshua then took the loaves of bread and having given thanks distributed them to those reclining, likewise also from the jars of fish paste as much as they wished. And as they ate themselves full, He says to His disciples, “Collect the leftover pieces of bread, so that not anything is destroyed. They then collected and filled twelve baskets of pieces from the five loaves of barley bread which overflowed to those devouring. The people then having seen what omen He did were saying that, “This really is the Prophet coming into the universe.” Yeshua then, knowing that they intended to come and grab Him so that they would make Him king, separated just Himself from them again into the mountain.

     And as it became late, his disciples went down upon the sea and embarking into a boat they started for the other side of the Sea into K’fer-Nahum. And darkness was already happening and Yeshua hadn’t yet come to them, the Sea too had roused up a huge blowing wind. Having come then like twenty five or thirty stadia they watch Yeshua walking on the Sea and coming to be near the boat, and they were panicked. Yet the One says to them, “I Am; don’t panic.” They wished then to get Him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to be upon the land as far as which they were going.

     On the morrow, the crowd which stood on the other side of the Sea saw that another small boat wasn’t there except one and that Yeshua didn’t go into the boat with His disciples but just His disciples left; but boats came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread with the Lord having given thanks. When then the crowd saw that Yeshua isn’t there nor His disciples, they embarked into the little boats and came into K’fer-Nahum looking for Yeshua. And finding Him on the other side of the Sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, at what time had you come to be here?” Yeshua responded to them and said, “Amen amen I say to you people, You are looking for Me not because you saw omens, but because you ate from the loaves of bread and were gorged. Work not the feed which is destroyed but the feed which stays put as far as the life of the Eternal One, which the Son of Adam will give to you; because the Father God put His seal on this feed.” They said then to Him, “What should we do so that we would work the feed worked of God?” Yeshua responded and said to them, “This is the feed worked of God, so that you would put your trust into Whom that One sent.” They said to Him, “What omen then are You doing, so that we would see and would believe You? What thing are you working? Our fathers ate the manna in the wasteland, just like it is written, “He gave them bread from the sky to eat.” Yeshua said to them, “Amen amen I say to you people, Moses didn’t give you the bread from the sky, but My Father gives you the real bread from the heavenly realm; because the bread of God is the One descending from the heavenly realm and giving life to the universe.

     They then said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” Yeshua said then to them, “I Am the bread of Life; the person coming to Me will absolutely not hunger, and the person putting their trust into me will absolutely not thirst forever, but I told you that you have both seen Me and don’t believe. Every single thing which the Father gives to Me will come here to Me, and I will absolutely not throw the person coming to Me outside, because I had descended from the heavenly realm no so that I do the will which is Mine but the will of the One having sent Me. And this thing is the will of the One having sent Me, so that every single thing which He had given Me I wouldn’t destroy from Him, but would resurrect it on the last day. Because this thing is the will of My Father, so that every single person who watches the Son and puts their trust into Him would have the life of the Eternal One, and I Myself will resurrect him on the last day.”

     The Iudaeans then were grumbling about Him because He said, “I Am the bread which descended from the heavenly realm,” and they were saying, “Isn’t this Yeshua Bar-Yoseph, of whose father and mother we know? How is He now saying that, “I had descended from the heavenly realm?” Yeshua responded and said to them, “Don’t grumble with one another. No one can come to Me if the Father who sent Me shouldn’t drag him, and I will resurrect him on the last day. It is written in the prophets, “and they will all be instructed by God;” every single person who heard alongside the Father and learned comes to Me. Not that anyone had seen the Father except the One who is alongside God, this One had seen the Father. Amen amen I tell you, the person putting their trust into Me holds the life of the Eternal One. I Am the bread of Life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wasteland and died; this One is the bread which descends from the heavenly realm, so that anyone having eaten from Him would also not die. I Am the living bread which descended from the heavenly realm; if anyone should eat from this bread he will live into the eon, yet also the bread which I will give is My flesh on behalf of the life of the universe.”

     The Iudaeans were then fighting with one another saying, “How can this guy give us His flesh to eat?” Yeshua then said to them, “Amen amen I tell you, if you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Adam and drink this blood of His, you don’t hold life within yourselves. The person feeding on My flesh and drinking this blood of Mine holds the life of the Eternal One, and I will resurrect him on the last day. Because my flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink. The person feeding on My flesh and drinking this blood of Mine makes his home within Me and I within him. Just like the Living Father sent Me out and I live because of the Father, also the person feeding on Me that one will also live because of Me. This is the bread which descended from the heavenly realm, not just like the father ate and died; the person feeding on this bread will live into the eon.” He said these things teaching in a synagogue in K’fer-Nahum.

     Many then from His disciples having heard said, “This message is hard; who can listen to it?” And Yeshua knowing within Himself that His disciples are grumbling about this said to them, “Does this offend you? What if you should then see the Son of Adam ascending where He was in the first place? The Spirit is what makes alive, the flesh is of absolutely no profit at all; the words which I spoke to you are Spirit and are Life. But there are some from you who don’t believe.” Because Yeshua knew from the start who they are who don’t believe and who it is who will hand Him over. And he was saying, “Because of this I had said to you that no one can come to Me if it might not have been given to him from the Father.”

     From this many from His disciples went into the things behind and no longer were walking with Him. Yeshua then said to the twelve, “You don’t also wish to go, do you?” Shimon Petros answered Him, “Lord, to whom would we come away? You hold the words of the life of the Eternal One, and we have put our trust into You and know and You are the Holy One of God.” Yeshua answered them, “Hadn’t I selected you twelve? And one from you guys is a satan.” Yet he was speaking of Y’hudah Bar-Shimon of Iscariot, one of the twelve, because this guy intended to hand Him over.

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