John 6:36

I said unto you When? no such saying is recorded. Ewald thus finds some slight evidence for his theory that a whole sheet of this Gospel has been lost between Chapter s 5 and 6. But the reference may easily be to one of the countless unrecorded sayings of Christ, or possibly to the general sense of John 5:37-44. In the latter case -you" must mean the Jewish nation, for those verses were addressed to Jews at Jerusalem. See on John 10:26, where there is a somewhat similar case. That -I said" means -I would have you to know," and has no reference to any previous utterance, does not seem very probable.

ye also have seen me -Also" belongs to -have seen," not to -ye," as most English readers would suppose: ye have even seen me(not merely heard of me), and(yet) do not believe. The tragic tone again. See on John 1:5; John 1:10-11.