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Today's verse is from John 6:5,6 lifting up his eyes then and seeing that a large crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat he said this to test him, for himself knew what he would do.  John recorded that Jesus approached Philip about the need of food. The other gospel does't say this. 
John does not mention several details found in the other gospels. Matthew and Mark say that Jesus had compassion on them. Luke says he spoke to them about the kingdom of God and cured those who are in need of healing. 
While John did not use the word "compassion, clearly Jesus question to Philip reflected his compassion for the large crowd.  He asked Philip because he was from Bethesda, which was near the place where they were. And if Jesus asked a question to someone, it is not for information. He knew everything. This was for them to think. He already knew what he was about to do. 
This was Philip to understand the magnitude ...

Praise the Lord today's verse is from John 6 chapter verse three and four  Jesus went up to the mountain and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the passover, the feast of the Jews was at hand.  Jesus went up to the mountain, seems to express a desire for solitude. However, the crowd found them and gathered there.  Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews was at hand. This is the second passover mentioned in the book of John. The first was in John 2:13, when Jesus was in the temple, where he drove out the people selling oxen, sheep, and pigeons in the temple  In John 6:4, this would have been the second passover mentioned in John’s gospel and therefore the completion of the second year of Jesus ministry.  The third passover was written in John 1:21. This Passover was the crucification of Jesus in Jerusalem, when Jesus became the Passover lamb.  The Jewish Passover is the celebration of the exodus from Egypt. The The celebration was the slaughter of a l...

​ Praise the lord today's verses from John 6 verse 2  “And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.” ‭‭John‬ ‭6‬:‭2‬ ‭ESV‬‬  It becomes clear that enumerous crowds and searching enthusiasm are not always evidence of spiritual validity. One of the main reasons people were following Jesus is that he was performing many miracles. 
It is impossible for us to comprehend or realise the magnitude of this miracles, and what must have happened at these meetings, to think of blind eyes instantly being opened, with lepers instantly cleansed, and all manners of diseases instantly healed must have brought a joy unparallelled in the history of humanity.   So we might describe many of this large crowd may be disciples. However, as the story unfolds, we see soon that the crowd who followed him did not obey his command to count the cost and follow him. 
In the later part of this chapter in verse 66 we read “After this, many of the dis...

Praise the Lord. Today's verse is from John 5:45.  Do you think that I will accuse you to the Father,  there is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom you have set your hope.  Jesus said, I do not accuse you to the Father, John 3:17 says, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  Moses was the greatest leader that the Israel people had. They had set their hope in him. Moses had written the first five books of the Bible. This is called Torah, which is considered the greatest of the books of the Bible by the Jews. When the Israelities were slaves under Egypt, they cried unto God.Exodus  2:23,24 The people of Israel groaned because of their slavery, and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue, from slavery, came up to God. God heard their groaning, and remembered his covenant, and sent Moses to deliver them.  Moses led them out of Egypt, and when they were faced with the...

Praise the Lord today's verse is from John 6:1. After this Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is this sea of Tiboreus  We are starting with John chapter 6 today in this chapter we are going to see Jesus perform two more impressive miracles and impossible feats. He will feed five thousand and walk on water. This feeding of 5000 is the only miracle recorded in all four gospel, which shows the importance and significance of this miracle. 
The synoptic gospels which suggests two reasons that Jesus and his disciples withdrew to the eastern side of the lake. Mark 6, says the disciples had just returned from a preaching mission. Jesus too had been heavily involved in exhausting ministry, while they were gone, and the Lord knew the disciples needed a time of rest and instruction. Matthew 14:13 reveals that the news of John the Baptist death provided an additional reason for their withdrawal. 
So they went away by themselves in a boat, but many who saw them leavi...

Praise the Lord, today's verse is from John 5:44.  How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God.  Jesus is giving one more reason why the Jews did not believe in Jesus, because they sought the glory of man and not of God. He also makes a distinction between the glory and honour from man and the honour which comes from God.  The fatal error of the religious leaders of those days was their pride, vanity, and self love, then lived for each other's praise. God does not minister to the pride of man. He does not modify his truth so as to please man's pride. The longed for prestige and glory and honour from one another, and they were willing to sacrifice the honour which comes from God alone for the sake of man's honour.  If they had acknowledged Christ as their Messiah, they must have to give up the good opinion of the multitude. They chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit the reput...