Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 6:57
I live by the Father — Being one with him. He shall live by me — Being one with me. Amazing union!
I live by the Father — Being one with him. He shall live by me — Being one with me. Amazing union!
Verse 57. _SO HE THAT EATETH ME, EVEN HE SHALL LIVE BY ME._] From which we learn that the union between Christ and his followers shall be similar to that which subsists between God and Christ....
I LIVE BY THE FATHER - See the notes at John 5:26....
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 LIVING FATHER. The Father who is the fountain of life. He sent Christ endowed with his life. So Christ endows with life those who "eat" him. It was the _meat_ of Jesus to do the will of the Fathe...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
AS. According as. See John 13:15. 1Jn 2:6. 1 John 2:4. LIVE. See note on John 4:50. BY. through. Greek. _dia._ App-104.John 6:2....
Not a mere repetition of the previous statement but an enlargement of it. The result of this close union is perfect life, proceeding as from the Father to the Son, so in like manner from the Son to al...
_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...
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...
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...
ΖΉΣΕΙ for ζήσεται. The future of ζάω occurs 20 times in N.T. In 6 quotations from LXX. ζήσομαι is used: 4 times in S. John (John 5:25; John 6:57-58; John 14:19) ζήσω is used; so also probably in...
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 55. FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED. 56. HE THAT EATS MY FLESH, AND DRINKS MY BLOOD, DWELLS IN ME, AND I IN HIM. 57. AS THE LIVING FATHER HAS SENT ME, AND I LIVE BY...
_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...
ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ John 6:29. ΖΏ _praes. ind. act., см._ John 6:51. ΔΙΆ (G1223) с _асс._ из-за. ΚΑΊ (G2532) также, ΖΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act., см._...
AS THE LIVING FATHER HATH SENT ME, &C.— "As it is my meat and drink to do the will of the Father, who is the fountain and author of life and happiness; as I nourish and delight my mind, as man, with t...
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...
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. AS THE LIVING FATHER HATH SENT ME [ apesteilen (G649)] - 'sent Me,' to communicate His o...
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...
6:57 account (e-12) account (e-25) _ Dia_ with the accusative is not simply 'by' or 'through,' and here it is evident that it is important to be accurate. The sense is 'by reason of what the Father is...
The life-imparting union between the Father and the Son, is a figure of the life-imparting union between Christ and the believer....
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...
I LIVE BY THE FATHER... HE SHALL LIVE BY ME. — The preposition “by” here is ambiguous, and it is better, therefore, to render the words, _I live by reason of the Father_... _he shall live by reason of...
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...
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...
As (t) the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the (u) Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. (t) In that Christ is man, he receives that power which quickens and gives life 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...
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...
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)....
“ _He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him._ 57. _As the living Father sent me, and I live by the Father, so he who eats me, he also shall live by me._ ” By drinking throug...
VER. 57. To be in communion with Jesus is to live, because Jesus has access Himself to the highest source of life, namely, God. “Life passes from the Son to the believer, as it passes from the Father...
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...
_THE FOOD OF THE SAINTS_ ‘As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.’ John 6:57 These words, simply and naturally, imply, first of...
57._As the living Father hath sent me. _Hitherto Christ has explained the manner in which we must become partakers of life. He now comes to speak of the principal cause, for the first source of life i...
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...
AS THE LIVING FATHER HATH SENT ME,.... Into the world, to be the Saviour of it; not by local motion, but by assumption of human nature; and not against his will, or as having superiority over him; but...
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Ver. 57. _So he that eateth me, liveth by me_] All out of Christ then, though they seem to...
_Whoso eateth my flesh, &c., hath eternal life_ Has the principles of eternal life implanted in him, and shall enjoy it; _for I will raise him up, &c. For my flesh is meat indeed_, &c. My flesh and bl...
AS THE LIVING FATHER HATH SENT ME, AND I LIVE BY THE FATHER, SO HE THAT EATETH ME, EVEN HE SHALL LIVE BY ME....
Life through Christ's sacrifice:...
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...
OLBGrk; God is often in holy writ called _the living God, _ not only because he hath life in himself, but because he is the fountain of life to all his creatures. Christ here declareth his Father to b...
John 6:57 As G2531 living G2198 (G5723) Father G3962 sent G649 (G5656) Me G3165 I G2504 live...
“As the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.” Here He was not only thinking of the fact that His human life had been given to Him, and...
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...
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 6:57. AS THE LIVING FATHER SENT ME, AND I LIVE BECAUSE OF THE FATHER; SO HE THAT EATETH ME, HE ALSO SHALL LIVE BECAUSE OF ME. He that sent the Son into the world is the living Father, the Being w...
THE LIVING FATHER (ο ζων πατηρ). Nowhere else in the N.T., but see John 5:26 and "the living God" (Matthew 16:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16). The Father is the source of life and so "I live because of the...
John 6:57 _(with Galatians 2:20)_ The Meaning of Justification by Faith I. Looking steadily at the two passages of Scripture which I have chosen for my text, we shall gain the clue to the full scrip...
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...
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, 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 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 6:22. 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...
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...
THE LIVING FATHER SENT ME. The Father, who is the source of life, sends life to the believer through the Son. "Perfect life" comes through our union with Christ (Romans 8:1-4)....
_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...
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...
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....
_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 15:22; 1 John 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 13:4;...
The living Father [ο ζ ω ν π α τ η ρ]. A phrase found nowhere else in the New Testament. On living and live, see John 1:4. By the Father [δ ι α τ ο ν π α τ ε ρ α]. Wrong. Render, because of, as Rev....