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John 6:35 (NIV)
35Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will
never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:41 through John 6:51 (NIV)
41At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the
bread that came down from heaven.” 42They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from
heaven’?”
43“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44“No one can come to me
unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last
day. 45It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’
Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46No one has
seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47I
tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48I am the bread of
life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here
is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51I
am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he
will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 28-35
Constant exercise of faith in Christ, is the most important and difficult part
of the obedience required from us, as sinners seeking salvation. When by his
grace we are enabled to live a life of faith in the Son of God, holy tempers
follow, and acceptable services may be done. God, even his Father, who gave
their fathers that food from heaven to support their natural lives, now gave
them the true Bread for the salvation of their souls. Coming to Jesus, and
believing on him, signify the same. Christ shows that he is the true Bread; he
is to the soul what bread is to the body, nourishes and supports the spiritual
life. He is the Bread of God. Bread which the Father gives, which he has made to
be the food of our souls. Bread nourishes only by the powers of a living body;
but Christ is himself living Bread, and nourishes by his own power. The doctrine
of Christ crucified is now as strengthening and comforting to a believer as ever
it was. He is the Bread which came down from heaven. It denotes the Divinity of
Christ’s person and his authority; also, the Divine origin of all the good which
flows to us through him. May we with understanding and earnestness say, Lord,
evermore give us this Bread.
VERSES 36-46
The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy
Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which
hinders applying to him for salvation. The Father’s will is, that not one of
those who were given to the Son, should be rejected or lost by him. No one will
come, till Divine grace has subdued, and in part changed his heart; therefore no
one who comes will ever be cast out. The gospel finds none willing to be saved
in the humbling, holy manner, made known therein; but God draws with his word
and the Holy Ghost; and man’s duty is to hear and learn; that is to say, to
receive the grace offered, and consent to the promise. None had seen the Father
but his beloved Son; and the Jews must expect to be taught by his inward power
upon their minds, and by his word, and the ministers whom he sent among them.
VERSES 47-51
The advantage of the manna was small, it only referred to this life; but the
living Bread is so excellent, that the man who feedeth on it shall never die.
This bread is Christ’s human nature, which he took to present to the Father, as
a sacrifice for the sins of the world; to purchase all things pertaining to life
and godliness, for sinners of every nation, who repent and believe in him.