John 6
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John 6:8-12 on the recto side of Papyrus 28, written about AD 250.
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| Book | Gospel of John |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 4 |
| Category | Gospel |
John 6 is the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Jesus' miracles of feeding the five thousand and walking on water, the Bread of Life Discourse, popular rejection of his teaching and Peter's confession of faith, and anticipates his betrayal by Judas Iscariot.
The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.
Events recorded in this chapter refer to the following locations in Galilee:
Boats which had come from Tiberias and sail onwards to Capernaum are also mentioned (John 6:23-24).
The New King James Version organizes this chapter as follows:
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges prefers not to break up the text from John 6:26 to 6:58, arguing that this text "forms one connected discourse spoken at one time in the synagogue at Capernaum".
The events recorded in chapter 5 are set in Jerusalem. As chapter 6 opens, the setting has moved to the Sea of Galilee, one hundred miles further north.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges observes that "the scene shifts suddenly from Judaea to Galilee; but we are told nothing about the transit. We see more and more as we go on, that this Gospel makes no attempt to be a complete or connected whole. There are large gaps in the chronology". Anglican Bishop Charles Ellicott considered whether "a portion of the Gospel between John 5 and 6 has been lost", but treats this as a "purely arbitrary supposition".
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