3We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us. 4These things have not been hidden from their sons in any generation: declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, and the wonders that he has done. 5And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons, 6so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons. 7So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments. 8May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God. 9The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle. 10They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law. 11And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them. 12He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. 13He broke the sea and he led them through. And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel. 14And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night. 15He broke through the rock in the wasteland, and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss. 16He brought forth water from the rock, and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers. 17And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment. 18And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires. 19And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert? 20He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people?” 21Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel. 22For they neither put their trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation. 23And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven. 24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven. 25Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance. 26He transferred the south wind from heaven, and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind. 27And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea. 28And they fell down in the midst of their camp, encircling their tabernacles. 29And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires. 30They were not cheated out of what they wanted. Their food was still in their mouth, 31and then the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones among them, and he impeded the elect of Israel. 32In all these things, they continued to sin, and they were not trustworthy with his miracles. 33And their days faded away into vanity, and their years with haste. 34When he slew them, then they sought him. And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning. 35And they were mindful that God is their helper and that the Most High God is their redeemer. 36And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue. 37For their heart was not upright with him, nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant. 38Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. And he will not destroy them. And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. And he did not enflame his wrath entirely. 39And he remembered that they are flesh: with a spirit that goes forth and does not return. 40How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place? 41And they turned back and tempted God, and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel. 42They did not remember his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them. 43Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Tanis. 44And he turned their rivers into blood, along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink. 45He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, and the frog, and it scattered them. 46And he gave up their fruits to mold and their labors to the locust. 47And he slew their vineyards with hail and their mulberry trees with severe frost. 48And he delivered their cattle to the hail and their possessions to fire. 49And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels. 50He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death. 51And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham. 52And he took away his own people like sheep, and he led them through the wilderness like a flock. 53And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. And the sea covered their enemies. 54And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: the mountain that his right hand had acquired. And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution.
17And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts. 19Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity. 20But this is not what you have learned in Christ. 21For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus: 22to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, 23and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.
24Therefore, when the crowd had seen that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they climbed into the small boats, and they went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25And when they had found him across the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26Jesus answered them and said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen signs, but because you have eaten from the bread and were satisfied. 27Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.” 28Therefore, they said to him, “What should we do, so that we may labor in the works of God?” 29Jesus responded and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.” 30And so they said to him: “Then what sign will you do, so that we may see it and believe in you? What will you work? 31Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34And so they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” 35Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.