Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Verse 31. _OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE DESERT_] Their argument seems to run thus: Thou hast, we grant, fed five thousand men with five loaves and two small fishes; but what is this in comparison...
OUR FATHERS - The Jews who were led by Moses through the wilderness. DID EAT MANNA - This was the name given by the Jews to the food which was furnished to them by God in their journey. It means liter...
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...
THE DESIRE FOR A SIGN: THE TRUE MANNA. After raising their expectations He had refused to go forward. In answer to their surprise at finding Him so soon across the lake He tells them why. Their hopes...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS. He may have fed. few thousands on the day before, but what was that to the feeding of the whole host of Israel for forty years in the wilderness? Is he as...
They said to him: "What sign are you going to perform that we may see it and believe in you? What is your work? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it stands written: 'He gave them bread f...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
OUR FATHERS, &c. See Exodus 16:15. Over half. million able for war; probably three millions in all. Numbers 2:32. MANNA. the manna. AS. according as. HE GAVE, &c. Quoted from Psalms 78:24.
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...
_manna_ More exactly, the manna. _He gave them bread from heaven to eat_ A rough quotation of -had rained down manna upon them to eat" (Psalms 78:24). They artfully suppress the nominative (which in t...
The Discourse on the Son as the Support of Life God's revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Th...
_Distinction between the material bread and the Spiritual Bread _...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SUPPORT OF LIFE God’s revealed word and created world are unhappily alike in this; that the most beautiful places in each are often the scene and subject of strife. Thi...
ἘΣΤΙΝ ΓΕΓΡΑΜ. See on John 2:17. What follows is a rough quotation of ‘had rained down manna upon them to eat’ (Psalms 78:24), or possibly of Nehemiah 3:15. In either case they artfully suppress the no...
par Ver 28. Then said they to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29. Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. 30. T...
_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...
ΜΆΝΝΑ (G3131) манна. Чудесная пища, манна небесная, дарованная в пустыне, служила для рабби символом богатых даров Бога в эпоху Мессии (Hoskyns; SB, 2:481; TFG, 238-50; P.Borgen, Bread from Heaven: An...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA, &C.— By extolling the miracle of the manna, by calling it _bread from heaven,_ and by insinuating that it was Moses's miracle, the Jews endeavoured to disparage Christ's mir...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, I _Text 6:30-40_ 30 They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wil...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:28-40 Below we give an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— It is both important and instructive to observe the connection between John 5 and Jo...
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE DESERT; AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN TO EAT -...
15 Exactly a year later (Joh_12:12-16) He presented Himself to them as their King. This effort to make Him King was premature and arose from the fact that they had not comprehended the significance of...
6:31 written, (b-12) Psalms 78:24 and Neh, 9.15....
DISCOURSE ON THE BREAD OF LIFE. As in John 4 Jesus is the giver of 'living water,' so here He is the 'living bread' or 'manna' of the soul. Such language had been to some extent prepared for by OT. re...
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...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA. — He claims to be the Messiah; but the Messiah was to be greater than Moses, and the sign He has shown is less. The Messiah was to cause manna again to fall from heaven, as...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE. John 6:1. In this chapter John follows the same method as in the last. He first relates the sign, and then gives our Lord's interpretation of it. As to the Samari...
This is proved by the suggestion added in John 6:31. οἱ πατέρες … φαγεῖν; they demanded that He as Messiah should make good His claim by outdoing Moses. Schoettgen and Lightfoot quote from Rabbinical...
THE FATHER'S WILL JESUS' LAW OF LIFE John 6:30-40 On the day following, our Lord had to encounter, first the demand of the people for a continuation of the miracle of the preceding night, John 6:25-4...
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...
Christ having declared that he was greater than Moses, (since Moses could not promise them bread which should never perish) the Jews wished for some sign by which they might believe in him; therefore...
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...
3. VV. 30-33. The way to reach faith. VV. 30, 31. “ _Then they said to Him: What sign doest thou then, that we may see, and believe in thee? What work dost thou do?_ 31. _Our fathers ate the manna in...
1. VV. 25-40. This first phase is made up of four brief dialogues, each including a question of the Jews and an answer of Jesus. The last of these answers is more fully developed; Jesus expresses in...
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)....
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with h...
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...
31._Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. _Thus we see that Christ put his finger on the sore, when he told them that they came like brute beasts to fill their belly; for they discover this gross d...
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...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS,.... Which was a sort of food prepared by angels in the air, and rained down from thence about the tents of the Israelites; it was a small round thing, as s...
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Ver. 31. _Our fathers did eat manna in the desert_] Here they bewray themselves, and confirm what our...
_They said, What sign showest thou_ What miracle dost thou work; _that we may see and believe thee?_ Since thou requirest us to give thee credit, and to regard thee as invested with a higher character...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA; still thinking that Jesus was speaking of the bread that should nourish the body, they intimate that the miracle of the manna in the desert, Exodus 16:13-18, was greater tha...
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...
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 o...
Here they magnify Moses; he did not bring them a law only, but confirmed it by signs from heaven to be the will of God, by obtaining for them bread to be mined from heaven to satisfy their hunger, EXO...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews meats, but fed on "angel's loaves"[60] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary food the mem...
John 6:31 Our G2257 fathers G3962 ate G5315 (G5627) manna G3131 in G1722 desert G2048 as G2531 is...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD (JOHN 6:26). The narrative that follows must be carefully divided up if it is to be properly understood. There are in fact three clearly dif...
WORDS TO THE CROWDS (JOHN 6:26). Jesus' initial words were spoken to the crowds who had followed Him. These were the more simple folk whose thoughts were on more food, and miraculous provision. They w...
‘They said therefore to him, “What then will you do for a sign that we may see and believe you? What work are you going to do? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written ‘He gave th...
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...
John 6:31. OUR FATHERS DID EAT THE MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS. Amongst the miracles wrought by Moses the Jews seem (and with reason) to have assigned to the manna a foremost place. In a Hebrew commentary...
ATE THE MANNA (το μαννα εφαγον). The rabbis quoted Psalms 72:16 to prove that the Messiah, when he comes, will outdo Moses with manna from heaven. Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah and able to gi...
These people had crossed the Sea of Galilee, and gone to Capernaum, «seeking for Jesus.» It seemed a very hopeful sign that they should be willing to make such efforts to find Christ, but see how the...
John 6:1. _After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were disease...
John 6:14. _Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come an...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
John 6:22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went...
John 6:30. _They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them b...
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...
OUR ANCESTORS ATE MANNA IN THE DESERT. Jesus may have fed a few thousands, but they say their ancestors were fed by a miracle in the desert for forty years! Lipscomb thinks they expected Jesus to feed...
_The day following_ JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE I. OUR LORD’S AVOWAL OF HIS DIVINE NATURE AND HIS HEAVENLY ERRAND. More than thirty times in this one discourse does He use the personal pronouns “Me” and...
_What sign showest Thou then that we may see and believe_ CHRIST THE CHRISTIAN’S FOOD Hewitson writes: “I think I know more of Jesus Christ than of any earthly friend. ” Hence one who knew Him well...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:31 The OT reference seems to involve several passages, with Psalms 78:23 being the most prominent (see also Exodus 1
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....
_Our fathers_... _as it is written_ (Psalms 78:24). As though they said, "Moses fed our fathers in the desert, even more than six hundred thousand men, with heavenly and most sweet food, ever the mann...
_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 Corinthians 10:3; Deuteronomy 8:3; Exodus 16:35; Exodus 16:4; Jo
Manna. Properly, the manna, referring to the familiar historic fact. A passage is cited from a Hebrew commentary on Ecclesiastes, as follows : "As the first Redeemer made the manna to descend, as it i...
Our fathers ate manna — This sign Moses gave them. He gave them bread from heaven — From the lower sublunary heaven; to which Jesus opposes the highest heaven: in which sense he says seven times, John...