Christ answers them out of their own mouths. They had spoken of the manna as superior to the multiplied loaves and fishes; but the manna did not preserve men from death. The same word is used both in John 6:49 and John 6:50; therefore for -are dead" it will be better to substitute died. Moreover, the point is, not that they are dead now, but that they perished then; the manna did not save them. They ate the manna and died.
Verse 49. _YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA - AND ARE DEAD._] That bread neither preserved their bodies alive, nor entitled them to life eternal; but those who receive my salvation, shall not only be raise...
YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA - There was a real miracle performed in their behalf; there was a perpetual interposition of God which showed that they were his chosen people. AND ARE DEAD - The bread whi...
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...
51.. AM THAT BREAD OF LIFE. The multitude had spoken of the manna given to their fathers. They had all perished, for it was not the bread of life, and could not communicate life, but the true Bread w...
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...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
DID EAT. ate. ARE DEAD. died....
47–50. Christ returns from answering the Jews to the main subject...
ἜΦΑΓΟΝ … ἈΠΈΘ. ATE THE _manna … and_ THEY DIED, see on John 8:52. The point is, not that they are dead now, but that they died then; the manna did not save them. He answers them out of their own mouth...
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...
_Identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ _...
par VER 47. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TO YOU, HE THAT BELIEVES IN ME HAS EVERLASTING LIFE. 48. I AM THAT BREAD OF LIFE. 49. YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS, AND ARE DEAD. 50. THIS IS THE BR...
_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...
ΈΦΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068) есть. Обобщ. _aor._ рассматривает сорок лет поедания манны как единое целое, ΆΠΈΘΑVOV _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать....
YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA— Our Lord next drew a comparison between himself, considered as the bread from heaven, and the manna which Moses provided for their fathers in the desart, and which they adm...
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...
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. YOUR FATHERS - of whom ye spake (). Observe, He does not say 'Our fathers'-by which, as Bengel remarks, He would hint that He had a high...
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...
YOUR FATHERS... AND ARE DEAD. — Better,... _and died._ — The manna which their fathers ate (John 6:31) seemed to them a greater work than this which He has done. Its true relation to Him is shown in t...
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...
οἱ πατέρες … μὴ ἀποθάνῃ, “Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and died: this is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die”. In other words: The manna which wa...
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...
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...
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...
“ _Verily, verily, I say unto you: He who believes on me has eternal life._ 48. _I am the bread of life._ 49. _Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they are dead. John 6:50_. _This is...
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...
49._Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead. _He says that the _manna _was a perishing food to _their fathers, _for it did not free them from death. It follows, therefore, that souls do...
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...
YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food...
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. Ver. 49. _Did eat manna_] They fed upon sacraments, and yet many of them perished eternally. A man may go to hell with font water on his fa...
_I am the bread of life_ Jesus, having explained the nature of the dignity which he had claimed in the foregoing part of his discourse, (John 6:33,) and demonstrated that it really belonged to him, he...
Living Bread to eat:...
YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS AND ARE DEAD....
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...
47-51 The advantage of the manna was small, it only referred to this life; but the living Bread is so excellent, that the man who feedeth on it shall never die. This bread is Christ's human nature, wh...
YOUR FATHERS by nature, or in respect of unbelief, DID EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS, AND they ARE naturally DEAD; (manna would not always preserve their natural life); and those of them who were unbeli...
John 6:49 Your G5216 fathers G3962 ate G5315 (G5627) manna G3131 in G1722 wilderness G2048 and G2532 dead...
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 very truth I tell you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, that a...
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...
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 6:49. YOUR FATHERS DID EAT THE MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS, AND DIED. No other bread has given life eternal. Even the manna, the bread given out of heaven, did not bestow life on their fathers, who ...
John 6:47-49. THE PHARISEES THEREFORE ANSWERED THEM, HAVE YE ALSO BEEN LED ASTRAY? HATH ANY ONE OF THE RULERS BELIEVED IN HIM, OR OF THE PHARISEES? BUT THIS MULTITUDE WHICH UNDERSTANDETH NOT THE LAW A...
AND THEY DIED (κα απεθανον). Physical death. The manna did not prevent death. But this new manna will prevent spiritual death....
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...
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...
_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 10:3; Hebrews 3:17; John 6:31; Jude 1:5; Numbers 26:65
Are dead [α π ε θ α ν ο ν]. The aorist points, not to their present condition but to the historical fact; they died. So Rev....
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...