NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
John 6:56
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on the Faith
and, "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life? "[29]
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on the Faith
and, "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life? "[29]
JOHN 6:56 auvtw|/ After auvtw|/ codex Bezae adds what appears to be a homiletic expansion, kaqw.j evn evmoi. o` path.r kavgw. evn tw|/ patri,) avmh.n avmh.n le,gw u`mi/n( eva.n mh. la,bhte to. sw/ma...
Verse 56. _DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM._] Of all connections and unions, none is so intimate and complete as that which is effected by the digestion of aliments, because they are changed into the _v...
DWELLETH IN ME - Is truly and intimately connected with me. To dwell or abide in him is to remain in the belief of his doctrine, and in the participation of the benefits of his death. Compare John 15:...
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...
DWELLETH IN ME, AND. IN HIM. By this eating one enters into. Christ and partakes of his life. See Romans 6:1-8....
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
DWELLETH. abideth. Same as "endureth "in John 6:27. See note on "abode" in John 1:32....
_dwelleth in me, and I in him_ Or, ABIDETH _in Me and I in him_. This is one of S. John's very characteristic phrases to express the most intimate mutual fellowship and union. The word -abide" is also...
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...
_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...
ἘΝ ἘΜΟῚ ΜΈΝΕΙ, ΚἈΓῺ ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. This is one of S. John’s very characteristic phrases to express the most intimate mutual fellowship and union; John 14:10; John 14:20; John 15:4-5;...
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...
ΜΈΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать, изобиловать. _Praes._ указывает на длительное изобилие....
DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM,— "We are most intimately connected together in the closest union, communion, and friendship; and therefore whatever blessings I can bestow, whether by my own power, or by...
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...
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. HE THAT EATETH MY FLESH, AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD, DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM. As our food becomes incorporated with ou...
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...
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...
DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM. — _Abideth_ gives the sense more fully. (Comp. John 14:2; John 15:4 _et seq.;_ John 17:23; 1 John 3:24;...
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 further shown in John 6:55-56. ἡ γὰρ σάρξ μου ἀληθῶς [better ἀληθής] ἐστι βρῶσις, “For my flesh is a genuine food and my blood is a genuine drink”; with an implied contrast to those things wit...
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...
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...
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...
56._He who eateth my flesh. _This is another confirmation; for while he alone has life in himself, he shows how we may enjoy it, that is, by _eating his flesh_; as if he had affirmed that there is no...
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...
HE THAT EATETH MY FLESH, AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD,.... In the sense above given; John 6:53; DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM. There is a mutual indwelling of Christ, and believers; Christ is the habitation,...
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. Ver. 56. _He that eateth my flesh, &c._] That is, that partaketh of my person, merits, passions, privileges; he that rece...
_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...
DWELLETH IN ME; has a vital, saving union with me by faith, John 15:5; 1 CORINTHIANS 6:17; resembling in some respects the union between me and my Father. John 17:21....
HE THAT EATETH MY FLESH AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD DWELLETH IN ME AND I IN HIM....
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...
He that acknowledgeth and receiveth me, though he seeth me as a man, consisting of flesh and blood, and that particularly applies himself to me as dying for the sins of the world, and committeth his s...
John 6:56 eats G5176 (G5723) My G3450 flesh G4561 and G2532 drinks G4095 (G5723) My G3450 blood...
‘For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him'. Here He was again emphasising the importance of His death, for without i...
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 6:56. HE THAT EATETH MY FLESH AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD ABIDETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM. The fellowship consists in this, that the believer abides in the Life, and that He who is the Life abides in the b...
ABIDETH IN ME AND I IN HIM (εν εμο μενε καγω εν αυτω). Added to the phrase in John 6:54 in the place of εχε ζωην αιωνιον (has eternal life). The verb μενω (to abide) expresses continual mystical fel...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IF YOU DO NOT EAT THE FLESH. John 6:63 shows us these words are symbolic. The very thought of drinking blood was offensive to the Jews, who were forbidden to taste blood (Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:10-...
_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...
_For My Flesh,_ &c., _truly, i.e._, not parabolically nor figuratively, as Euthymius says from S. Chrysostom, but really and properly, according to the plain meaning of the words. Hence S. Chrysostom...
_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 John 3:24; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:15; 1 John 4:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16
Dwelleth [μ ε ν ε ι]. Render, as Rev., abideth. The word is a favorite one with John, occurring more frequently than in all the rest of the New Testament....
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...