If you cannot believe that I can give you my flesh to eat, now that I am living amongst you, how will you believe, that, after my ascension, I can give you to eat my glorified and immortal flesh, seated on the right hand of the majesty of God? (Bible de Vence)
Verse 62. _IF YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN ASCEND_] Ye need not be stumbled at what I say concerning eating my flesh and drinking my blood, for ye shall soon have the fullest proof that this is _figura...
WHAT AND IF ... - Jesus does not say that those who were then present would see him ascend, but he implies that he would ascend. They had taken offence because he said he came down from heaven. Instea...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Feeding of the Five Thousand Men. (John 6:1 .)_ 2. The Attempt to Make Him King, (John 6:15 .) 3. The Stormy Sea. “It is I, be not afraid.” (John 6:16 .) 4. The Discourse on the...
FURTHER JEWISH OBJECTIONS. Further advance is made by the use for the first time of the phrase, to eat the flesh. To their question How? Jesus answers that the gift of life can be obtained only by suc...
WHAT AND IF YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN ASCEND? He points out. still greater marvel than eating his flesh and blood. He came from heaven and he will return there. This passage is remarkable as furnish...
When they had heard this discourse many of his disciples said: "This word is hard! Who is able to listen to it?" Jesus well knew within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this; so he said...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
WHAT AND IF, &C.? The _Apodosis_ which is wanting (by _Ellipsis)_ must be supplied thus: "If" (as in John 6:51) therefore ye should behold the Son of man ascending up where He was before [will ye be o...
_What and if_, &c. Literally, IF THEREFORE YE SHOULD BEHOLD THE SON OF MAN ASCENDING _where He was before?_The sentence breaks off (_aposiopesis_) leaving something to be understood: but what is to be...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
ἘᾺΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν Θ. Literally, IF THEREFORE YE SHOULD BEHOLD THE SON OF MAN ASCENDING _where He was before_? The sentence breaks off (_aposiopesis_) leaving something to be understood: but what is to be unde...
par Ver 60. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61. When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them,...
_TEACHING ABOUT THE BREAD OF LIFE -- JOHN 6:22-65:_ On the next day the multitude realized that Jesus was gone and they went to find Him. The people asked Jesus how or when He got to Capernaum. Jesus...
ΘΕΩΡΉΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) видеть. О возможном строении этого эллиптического предложения _см._ Brown; Barrett, ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305) подниматьс...
DOTH THIS OFFEND YOU?— "Are you offended, because I said my flesh is bread, and that it came down from heaven, and that you must eat my flesh and drink my blood, in order to your having eternal life?—...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, EXPLAINED _Text 6:60-65_ 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his discip...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:60-71 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: It is indeed pathetic to find that here in Galilee Christ met with no...
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? WHAT AND IF YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN ASCEND UP WHERE HE WAS BEFORE? 'If ye are stumbled at what I have said, how will ye b...
56 Just as Nicodemus failed to see the figure when our Lord spoke to him about the new birth, so now His followers fail to understand when He speaks of feeding on His flesh and blood. There is a subtl...
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:1 to John 7:1. Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from Jerusal...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS FEEDS 5000 MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES 6:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went across Lake *Galilee. (Lake *Galilee was cal...
WHAT AND IF YE SHALL SEE ...? — Our version adds the word “what,” as will be seen from the italics, but it rightly expresses the sense. Literally, we should read, _If then ye should behold the Son of...
CHAPTER 15 THE CRISIS IN GALILEE. “Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? But Jesus knowing in Himself that His disciples murmured at thi...
_The crisis in Galilee_....
THE SIFTING OF JESUS' FOLLOWERS John 6:60-71 The teaching of this chapter involves a deliberate act of Christ to arrest the revolutionary movement that was gathering around His person and making Him...
The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted to...
CHAPTER 33 PUZZLE OF THE MULTITUDE John 6:22-71. _“On the following day the multitude, standing beyond the sea, saw that there was no other ship except one, and that Jesus did not go along with His d...
“ _But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them: Does this word offend you?_ 62. _And if you shall see the Son of man ascending where he was before?_ 63. _It is th...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 60-65. The very difficulty in the way of understanding, which has just been referred to, caused the division between the temporary and permanent disciples...
II. THE DISCOURSES: JOHN 6:22-65. This section contains, first an historical introduction (John 6:22-24), then a series of conversations and discourses (John 6:25-65)....
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it? (61) When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth thi...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
62._What if you shall see the Son of man ascend to where he was before? _The mean and despicable condition of Christ which they saw before their eyes, while, clothed with flesh, he was not at all diff...
In chapter 6, then, it is the Lord come down from heaven, humbled and put to death, not now as the Son of God, one with the Father, the source of life; but as He who, although He was Jehovah and at th...
[WHAT] AND IF YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN,.... Meaning himself then in a state of humiliation, and was taken for a mere man, though the true Messiah, and Son of God: ASCEND UP WHERE HE WAS BEFORE? fo...
_What_ and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? Ver. 62. _What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend_] Then you shall not be scandalized (so some sense it); or then you s...
_When Jesus knew_ Greek, ειδως δε ο Ιησους εν εαυτω, _Jesus knowing in himself; that his disciples murmured at it_ Though they did not speak out their objections and scruples; _said, Doth this_, which...
WHAT AND IF YE SHALL SEE; are you offended at the honor which I now claim as the bread of life? What will you say, then, when you see me receiving greater honor than this, by ascending to heaven, when...
THE OFFENSE OF MANY DISCIPLES. The disciples murmur:...
WHAT AND IF YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN ASCEND UP WHERE HE WAS BEFORE?...
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, available...
60-65 The human nature of Christ had not before been in heaven, but being God and man, that wondrous Person was truly said to have come down from heaven. The Messiah's kingdom was not of this world;...
Our Saviour by these words may seem rather to increase than to abate their offence. That which stumbled them was, his calling himself the bread of life; his affirming that he came down from heaven; th...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity If Christ is only man, why does He say, "What if ye shall see the Son of man ascending thither where He was before? "[101]...
John 6:62 G3767 if G1437 see G2334 (G5725) Son G5207 Man G444 ascend G305 (G5723) where G36
‘But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?” ' Aware of...
THE DISCIPLES MUST NOW FACE UP TO WHO HE IS (JOHN 6:60). The discourse began with the challenge to the crowds. It then moved on to the challenge to the Judaisers. Now it becomes a challenge to the di...
John 6:62. WHAT THEN IF YE BEHOLD THE SON OF MAN ASCENDING WHERE HE WAS BEFORE? The meaning of this ascent is surely clear in itself; but if it were not, the mention of a past _descent_ (John 6:41; Jo...
In the miracle of the multiplying of the bread Jesus has symbolically presented Himself as the true bread of life. This thought is now unfolded in the various discourses with which the remainder of th...
WHAT THEN IF YE SHOULD BEHOLD (εαν ουν θεωρητε). No "what" in the Greek. Condition of third class with εαν and present active subjunctive, "if ye then behold."ASCENDING (αναβαινοντα). Present act...
We shall read tonight part of that blessed sixth chapter of John's Gospel, beginning at the forty-first verse. John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came do...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at the Christ, John 6:41. _Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whos...
John 6:41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it t...
John 6:41. _The Jews then murmured at him,_ That is, at our blessed Lord: «The Jews then murmured at him,» John 6:41. Because he said, I am the bread which came down from heavens. And they said, Is...
CONTENTS: Feeding the 5000. Walking on the sea. Discourse on the Bread of Life. Peter's confession of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, boy, Moses, Joseph. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the true...
John 6:2. _A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles._ But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick. Ch...
THIS TEACHING IS TOO HARD. About eating and drinking his flesh and blood. They wanted the glory of raising an army to fight the Romans. Even as Jesus got ready to go up to heaven, the disciples still...
_Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?_ THE DEFECTION OF THE DISCIPLES I. OCCASIONED BY A HARD SAYING (John 6:60). It was unquestionably...
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _After this_, &c. Tiberias is here named, because the desert in which Christ fed the five thousand was near to Tiberias. _After this_, not immediately, but almost a year afterwards....
VER. 59. _This is the bread_, &c. He intimates the same thing which I have said at the end of the foregoing verse. For Christ came down from heaven not as man, but as God. Wherefore he who eateth Him...
_Jesus knowing in Himself,_ Greek, _ε̉ν έαυτω̃_, Syriac, _in His soul, i.e._, through His omniscience, without any one to tell, or reveal it. "For this was a proof of His Divinity, that He revealed se...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 6:22. NONE OTHER BOAT, RATHER LITTLE SHIP (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been present when...
EXPOSITION JOHN 6:1 2. _Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source_. JOHN 6:1 (1) _The supply of human wants illustrated by a well known _"_si...
Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool o...
1 Peter 3:22; Acts 1:9; Ephesians 4:8; John 16:28; John 17:11;...
What and if ye shall see [ε α ν ο υ ν θ ε ω ρ η τ ε]. The question is marked by an aposiopesis, i e., a breaking off of the sentence and leaving the hearer to complete it for himself. Literally, if th...
What if ye shall see the Son of man ascend where he was before? — How much more incredible will it then appear to you, that he should give you his flesh to eat?...