John 6:26
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "I tell you for certain that you are not looking for me because you saw the miracles, but because you ate all the food you wanted.

New American Bible
Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled.

Verily.

John 6:47,53 Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me hath everlasting life. . . .

John 3:3,5 Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . .

Ye seek.

John 6:15,64 Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone. . . .

Psalm 78:37 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

Psalm 106:12-14 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. . . .

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Acts 8:18-21 And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, . . .

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

1 Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

James 4:3,4 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences. . . .

Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
25And when they had found him on that other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? 26Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled. 27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.…
Cross References
John 6:2
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

John 6:14
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world.

John 6:24
When therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they took shipping and came to Capharnaum, seeking for Jesus.

John 6:36
But I said unto you that you also have seen me, and you believe not.

John 6:25
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