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. The final verses anticipate Jesus' betrayal by Judas Iscariot. The author of the book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel. Text The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 71 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Papyrus 75 (AD 175–225) Papyrus 66 (c. 200) Papyrus 28 (c. 250) Codex Vaticanus (325–350) Codex Sinaiticus (330–360) Codex Bezae (c. 400) Codex Alexandrinus (400–440; extant verses 1–49) Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (c. 450; extant: verses 39–71) Some writers place this chapter ahead of John 5. Swedish-based commentator René Kieffer considers the case for this reordering unproven, but he does recognise that chapter 6 may have been inserted into a putative second edition of the gospel. H. W. Watkins, in Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (1905), considered whether "a portion of the Gospel between John 5 and 6 has been lost", but treats this as a "purely arbitrary supposition". Old Testament references : ; ; Psalm : New Testament references : – "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him" Places Events recorded in this chapter refer to the following locations in Galilee: on a mountain in a deserted place, probably to the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee (or "Sea of Tiberias") ( and ) on the Sea of Galilee itself (John 6:16–21a) in Capernaum (John 6:21b, 6:24 and 6:59). Boats which had come from Tiberias and sail onwards to Capernaum are also mentioned (). Structure The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows : Feeding the five thousand : Jesus walks on the sea : The Bread from Heaven : Rejected by his own : Many disciples turn away Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, prefers not to break up the text from to , arguing that this text "forms one connected discourse spoken at one time in the synagogue at Capernaum". Introduction The events recorded in chapter 5 are set in Jerusalem. As chapter 6 opens, the setting has moved to the