‘But you,’ he asked ‘who do you say I am?’ Peter spoke up and said to him, ‘You are the Christ.’

‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’

This people honours me only with lip-service,

while their hearts are far from me.

‘Lord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we know that you are the Holy One of God.’

The sanctuary of God in heaven opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it.

'So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’

‘I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me will never be hungry;

he who believes in me will never thirst.’

‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’

“Make us a god to go at our head; this Moses, the man who brought us up from Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and gave them out to all who were sitting ready;