John 6:28

The people asked Jesus, “What is the work that God wants us to do, so that we can live for ever?”

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Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

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27Listen, that food, like you ate yesterday, it doesn’t last long. So don’t work for food like that. You have to work for food that gets you to live with God for ever. I am God’s special man from heaven, and I can give you that special food. And God, my father, told me to do that.”

29Jesus said, “This is the work that God wants you to do, he wants you to believe in the man he sent to the world.”

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Cross References

Acts 2:37All the people heard the things that Peter said, and they felt a lot of shame. So they said to Peter, and to Jesus’s other special workers, “Friends, what can we do?”

Acts 16:30Then he took Paul and Silas out of the jail, and he asked them, “Sirs, what can I do so that God will save me?”

Matthew Henry on John 6:23-28

Christ's Discourse with the Multitude. 22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; 23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his… Read the whole commentary →

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