John 6:35

διψήσει for διψήσῃ (correction to usual construction: comp. John 4:14; John 10:5).

35. ἐγώ εἰμι. Comp. John 6:41; John 6:48; John 6:51 : the pronoun is very emphatic as in John 4:54. As in John 5:30, He passes from the third person to the first. These identifications are characteristic of this Gospel: Christ declares Himself to be the Light of the world (John 8:12), the Door of the Fold (John 10:7; John 10:9), the Good Shepherd (John 10:11; John 10:14), the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25), the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), the True Vine (John 15:1; John 15:5). Ὁ ἄρτος τ. ζωῆς means ὁ ἄρτ. ζωὴν διδούς: comp. τὸ ὕδωρ τ. ζ., Revelation 21:6 (Revelation 22:1), and τὸ ξύλον τ. ζ., Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:22; Genesis 3:24. ‘He that cometh to Me’ = ‘he that believeth on Me,’ and ‘shall in no wise hunger’ = ‘shall in no wise ever thirst’ (πώποτε, not, as in John 4:14, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα); i.e. the believer shall experience the immediate and continual satisfaction of his highest spiritual needs. Christ’s superiority to the manna is this, that it satisfied only bodily needs for a time, He satisfies spiritual needs for ever. Note the Hebraic parallelism.