John 6:50

Ver. 50. “Here is the bread which will truly accomplish the result that you desire.”

The ἵνα, in order that, might depend on ὁ καταβαίνων, which comes down, but it is better to make it depend on the principal idea: “It is here... in order that one may eat of it and not die,” for: “in order that if one...he may not die.” It is still the Hebrew paratactic construction. To perform the first of these acts is ipso facto to realize the second. Several commentators take the word die, in John 6:50, in the moral sense of perdition. But the preceding antithesis, the death of the Jews in the wilderness, does not allow this explanation. Jesus here and elsewhere, denies even physical death for the believer (comp. John 8:51); which He of course does not mean in the absolute sense in which it would become an absurdity (see Keil who makes the idea of the resurrection, John 6:40, an objection against me), but in the sense that what properly constitutes death in what we call by that name the total failing of the physical and moral being, does not take place at the time when his brethren see him die. Morally and physically, Jesus remains his life, even at that moment, and, by His personal communion with him, takes away the death of death.