43. Christ does not answer their objections or explain. Even among the first Christians the fact of His miraculous conception seems to have been made known only gradually, so foul were the calumnies which the Jews had spread respecting His Mother. This certainly was not the place to proclaim it. He directs them to something of more vital importance than the way by which He came into the world, viz. the way by which they may come to Him.
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 MURMURING OF THE JEWS. The changes of persons here (_cf._ John 6:22, the multitude), and of place in John 6:59, show that this chapter is not intended to record a continuous conversation, but to g...
MURMUR NOT AMONG YOURSELVES. The reply of Jesus is. rebuke. These men were not honest inquirers but cavilers....
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
a So the Jews kept murmuring about him, because he said: "I am the bread which came down from heaven." They kept saying: "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can...
AMONG YOURSELVES. with (Greek. _meta.App-104_) one another....
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...
Digression on the difficulty of coming to Christ as a believer 43. _Murmur not_ Christ does not answer their objection or explain. Even among the first Christians the fact of his miraculous conception...
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...
par Ver 41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how i...
_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...
ΓΟΓΓΎΖΕΤΕ _praes. act. imper., см._ John 6:41. _Praes. imper._ с _Отр.._ ΜΉ (G3361) прекращает текущее действие....
THE BREAD OF LIFE, II _Text 6:41-51_ 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of...
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...
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. JESUS THEREFORE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, MURMUR NOT AMONG YOURSELVES....
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...
He does not meet their difficulty. It does not appear, indeed, that it was expressed to Him. He seeks to silence the interruption which their murmuring _among themselves_ has caused, and resumes the d...
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...
In this paragraph we are first told how the Jews were staggered by our Lord's affirming that He had come down from heaven; second, how Jesus explains that in order to understand and receive Him they m...
Therefore He merely says Μὴ γογγύζετε μετʼ ἀλλήλων. That was not the way to light. Nor could He expect to convince all of them, for οὐδεὶς … ἑλκύσῃ αὐτόν, “no one can come to me unless the Father who...
THE FOOD OF ETERNAL LIFE John 6:41-51 That phrase, _the last day,_ was constantly on the Master's lips, John 6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 12:48. It is an indefinite expression for those final...
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...
“ _Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves:_ 44. _No one can come to me except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day._ ” In other word...
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)....
2. VV. 41-51. A murmur which rises in the assembly (John 6:41-42) forces Jesus to declare to the Jews distinctly their incompetency in this matter (John 6:43-46); after which, with an increasing solem...
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...
43._Murmur not among yourselves. _He throws back on them the blame of the _murmuring_, as if he had said, “My doctrine contains no ground of offense, but because you are reprobate, it irritates your e...
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...
JESUS THEREFORE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM,.... Either overhearing what they said, or knowing, as God, their secret murmurs, and private cavils among themselves, thus addressed them, MURMUR NOT AMON...
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. Ver. 43. _Murmur not among yourselves_] _q.d._ I give you no just cause so to do. You carry your galls in your ears, as some...
_The Jews then murmured at him_ The dispositions of the greatest part of the Jews being carnal, the doctrine of our Lord respecting the spiritual nature of the blessings which his followers were to re...
JESUS THEREFORE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, MURMUR NOT AMONG YOURSELVES....
The murmuring Jews:...
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...
36-46 The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation....
By this our Saviour gives them another proof of his Divine nature, viz. in his knowing of their hearts and thoughts; for though they were inwardly angry, and in a rage, yet we read not of any words sp...
John 6:43 Jesus G2424 therefore G3767 answered G611 (G5662) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 not...
‘Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No man can come to me except my Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Jesus now tried vainly to...
THE LIFE-GIVING BREAD IS FOR THOSE DRAWN BY THE FATHER AND HE WILL GIVE HIS FLESH FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD (JOHN 6:41). At this point there would appear to be an important change in the narrative. Up...
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 6:43. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, MURMUR NOT AMONG YOURSELVES. For such murmurers Jesus has only reproof. It is very strange that in our day some writers on this Gospel should have had dif...
MURMUR NOT (μη γογγυζετε). Prohibition with μη and the present active imperative, "stop murmuring" (the very word of verse John 6:41). There was a rising tide of protest....
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 6:30. _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...
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 6:22. 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 Jews then murmured at Him because He said, I am the bread which came down from heaven_ WEIGHTY TRUTHS I. THAT CHRIST’S LOWLY CONDITION IS A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO THE NATURAL MAN. 1. Had He come a...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:43 The grumbling is like the grumbling against God in the OT (e.g., Exodus 16:8; Numbers 14:27)....
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....
_Jesus therefore answered_, &c... _among themselves_ (Vulg. _in invicem_). It is intimated that some were for Him, and others against Him: and through some attacking Him, and others defending Him, the...
_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...
Hebrews 4:13; John 16:19; John 6:64; Mark 9:33; Matthew 16:8...
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...