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John 6:52
The Jews, therefore, strove among themselves, saying, How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?
The Jews, therefore, strove among themselves, saying, How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?
JOHN 6:52 @auvtou/# {C} Since external evidence for and against the presence of auvtou/ is so evenly balanced, and since considerations of internal probabilities are not decisive, the Committee deci...
Verse 52. _HOW CAN THIS MAN GIVE US HIS FLESH TO EAT?_] Our Lord removes this difficulty, and answers the question, in John 6:63....
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...
THE JEWS STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES. They could not comprehend what had just been said, and they discussed how Jesus "could give his flesh to eat....
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
STROVE. were contending. Greek. _machomai._ Only here, Act 7:26. 2 Timothy 2:24.James 4:2. An advance on "murmuring" in John 6:41. AMONG THEMSELVES. with (Greek. _pros._ App-104.) one another....
_Further definition of the identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ as consisting in the giving of His Body and the outpouring of His Blood_ In John 6:35 Christ in His _Person_is the Bread o...
_strove among themselves_ Their excitement increases; they have got beyond muttering among themselves (John 6:41). _give us his flesh to eat_ -To EAT " is their own addition; they wish to bring out i...
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...
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...
ΠΡῸΣ�. ONE WITH ANOTHER (John 4:33; John 16:17): their excitement increases; they have got beyond murmuring about Him (John 5:4), but they are not all equally hostile (John 7:12
51–58. _Further definition of the identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ as consisting in the giving of His Body and the outpouring of His Blood_. In John 6:35-50 Christ in His _Person_ is...
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...
par VER 52. THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, HOW CAN THIS MAN GIVE US HIS FLESH TO EAT? 53. THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TO YOU, EXCEPT YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE...
_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...
ΈΜΆΧΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΜΆΧΟΜΑΙ (G3164) сражаться, вести словесную войну (RWP); inch. _impf._ ΔΟΎΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. _Inf._ как дополнение гл. ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ....
THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE— All the terms made use of by our Lord on this occasion, were such as the Jews had been accustomed to interpret figuratively; for which reason they might easily have understo...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, III _Text 6:52-59_ 52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say un...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:41-59 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: The first thirteen verses of John 6 describe the feeding of the multi...
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES (ARGUING THE POINT KEENLY AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING), HOW C...
34 Eating to supply the demands of physical hunger and thirst is but a symbol of the spiritual satisfaction apart from which life is debased to mere existence. Desires and aspirations for spiritual su...
6:52 flesh (c-14) Or 'give us flesh.'...
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...
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...
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...
THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES. — They have passed beyond the murmuring of John 6:41. They understand that He means, though His own words have not yet expressed it, that His flesh is to be...
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...
Ἐμάχοντο … The further explanations sprang from a fresh question put not directly to Jesus, but to one or other of the crowd. They differed in their judgment of Him. Some impatiently denounced Him as...
EAT AND LIVE John 6:52-59 In John 6:57 our Lord gives the secret of His inner life. At the beginning of His ministry He told the tempter that man did not live by bread alone, but by God's Word. Here...
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...
(12) The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? (12) Flesh cannot make a difference between fleshly eating, which is done by the help of the teet...
The bread which I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world. [2] In most Greek copies we read, is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. Christ here promised what he afterwards i...
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...
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)....
APPENDIX ON JOHN 6:51; JOHN 6:51. What does Jesus mean by the expressions: _to eat His flesh, to drink His blood?_ 1. Many interpreters see here only a _metaphor_, designating the act by which faith...
VER. 52. “ _The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can he give us his flesh to eat?_ ” The term ἐμάχοντο, _strove_, goes beyond the ἐγόγγυζον, _murmured_, of John 6:41; it is now a vi...
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...
52._The Jews therefore debated among themselves. _He again mentions the Jews, not by way of honor, but to reproach them with their unbelief, because they do not receive the well known doctrine concern...
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...
THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES,.... Fell to cavilling and disputing one among another; some understanding Christ, and others not; some being for him, and vindicated what he said; and other...
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us _his_ flesh to eat? Ver. 52. _Strove among themselves_] They tumultuously contradicted, murmured, mutinied, which was a si...
_The Jews therefore strove among themselves_ Greek, εμαχοντο, literally, _they fought_, that is, they debated with great violence, some being inclined to believe, others to reject this doctrine; some,...
HIS FLESH TO EAT; they meant literally. And the true answer to that question was, he would not in any way give them literally his flesh to eat. That was not his meaning. But by eating his flesh, he me...
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...
52-59 The flesh and blood of the Son of man, denote the Redeemer in the nature of man; Christ and him crucified, and the redemption wrought out by him, with all the precious benefits of redemption; p...
They will still understand spiritual things in a carnal sense; yet it is hard to conceive how they could imagine that Christ spake of giving them his flesh to eat, as men eat the flesh of oxen or shee...
John 6:52 Jews G2453 therefore G3767 quarreled G3164 (G5711) among G4314 themselves G240 saying G3004 (G5723) How...
‘The Judaisers thus strove the one with the other, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” ' The Judaisers professed to be puzzled at His statement that the bread that they were being to...
EXCEPT YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS BLOOD (JOHN 6:51). We are now gliding into the third phase of His teaching where He is teaching in the Synagogue, although the point at which t...
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...
John 6:52. THE JEWS THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, HOW CAN THIS MAN GIVE US HIS FLESH TO EAT? As before, the Jews take hold of those words which are most susceptible of a merely material s...
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...
STROVE (εμαχοντο). Imperfect (inchoative) middle of μαχομα, to fight in armed combat (Acts 7:26), then to wage a war of words as here and 2 Timothy 2:24. They were already murmuring (John 6:41), now...
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 6:22. 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 6:41. _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...
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 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...
_He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life_ EVERLASTING LIFE I. THE BLESSING, “everlasting life.” Everlasting life was never proposed in the schools of philosophy to the faith of man, or urged a...
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. 49, 50. _Your fathers_, &c, _in the desert_, "signifying," says S. Chrysostom, "that the manna did not long continue, nor come to the land of promise; for as soon as they reached it the manna cea...
_If any one shall eat_, &c. For this Bread gives to the soul the life of grace, which endures even to the life of glory for all eternity. And It shall make the body to rise from death to live together...
_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 2:14; Acts 17:32; John 10:19; John 3:4; John 3:9;...
Strove [ε μ α χ ο ν τ ο]. The murmuring (ver. 41) now breaks out into open contention among the Jews themselves....
THE BREAD OF LIFE John 6:33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When the devil said to Christ. "If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread," the Lord quickly unsheathed the sword of the Spiri...
Observe the degrees: the Jews are tried here; the disciples, John 6:60, the apostles, John 6:67....
Observe here, How the Jews, understanding Christ after. carnal manner, were offended at what he had said: for they thought it was inhuman to eat man's flesh, and could not understand how the body of C...