Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
John 6:58
This is that bread ... - This is the true bread that came down. The word “that” should not be in the translation.
Shall live for ever - Not on the earth, but in the enjoyments of a better world.
This is that bread ... - This is the true bread that came down. The word “that” should not be in the translation.
Shall live for ever - Not on the earth, but in the enjoyments of a better world.
JOHN 6:58 oi` pate,rej {A} Since the evidence for oi` pate,rej is predominantly Egyptian, one might argue that the absence of u`mw/n is the result of Alexandrian pruning. On the whole, however, it is...
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...
FURTHER JEWISH OBJECTIONS. Further advance is made by the use for the first time of the phrase, to eat the flesh. To their question How? Jesus answers that the gift of life can be obtained only by suc...
YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA. That food might sustain life for. season, but could not impart it, for it was dead food. The Bread from heaven is endued with life, and hence, gives eternal life....
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
THIS, &c. Compare John 6:50, and see on Matthew 16:18. LIVE FOR EVER. This is the opposite of death (John 6:49), and is to be only by and through resurrection (verses:...
_Further definition of the identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ as consisting in the giving of His Body and the outpouring of His Blood_ In John 6:35 Christ in His _Person_is the Bread o...
_This is that bread_ Better, _this is_ THE _Bread:_see on John 6:48. The verse is a general summing up of the whole, returning from the imagery of Flesh and Blood to the main expression of the discour...
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...
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...
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...
51–58. _Further definition of the identification of the Spiritual Bread with Christ as consisting in the giving of His Body and the outpouring of His Blood_. In John 6:35-50 Christ in His _Person_ is...
58. A general summing-up of the whole, returning from the Flesh and Blood to the main theme,—the Bread from heaven and its superiority to the highest earthly food. ΟὟΤΟΣ again may be subject or predic...
par VER 55. FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED. 56. HE THAT EATS MY FLESH, AND DRINKS MY BLOOD, DWELLS IN ME, AND I IN HIM. 57. AS THE LIVING FATHER HAS SENT ME, AND I LIVE BY...
_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...
ΚΑΤΑΒΆΣ _aor. act. part., см._ John 6:38. ΈΦΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ John 6:31. ΆΠΈΘΑΝΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать, ΖΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ, _см._...
THIS IS THAT BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN, &C.— "If you attend to these important hints which I have given, you may in general know what I meant, by saying, as I have done, _This is the bread that came down...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, III _Text 6:52-59_ 52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say un...
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...
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. THIS IS THAT BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: NO...
56 Just as Nicodemus failed to see the figure when our Lord spoke to him about the new birth, so now His followers fail to understand when He speaks of feeding on His flesh and blood. There is a subtl...
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...
THIS IS THAT (better, _the_) BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN... _i.e.,_ of this nature, which He has expounded from John 6:32 onwards. The tense is now in the past, pointing to His historic coming, because He h...
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...
οὗτός ἐστιν … αἰῶνα. These characteristics, now mentioned, identify this bread from heaven as something of a different and superior nature to the manna....
EAT AND LIVE John 6:52-59 In John 6:57 our Lord gives the secret of His inner life. At the beginning of His ministry He told the tempter that man did not live by bread alone, but by God's Word. Here...
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...
_As the living Father hath sent me, his only, his true Son, to become man; and I live by the Father, proceeding always from him; so he that eateth me, first by faith only, by believing in me; and seco...
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)....
APPENDIX ON JOHN 6:51; JOHN 6:51. What does Jesus mean by the expressions: _to eat His flesh, to drink His blood?_ 1. Many interpreters see here only a _metaphor_, designating the act by which faith...
VER. 58. “ _This is the bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat the manna and are dead; he who eats this bread shall live forever._ ” The pronoun οὖτος does not mean: “ _Such_ i...
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...
58._This is the bread which came down from heaven. _He returns to the comparison between _the manna _and _his flesh, _with which he had begun; for it was necessary that he should close the sermon in t...
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...
THIS IS THAT BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN,.... That true bread, the bread of God, the bread of life, living bread; meaning himself, as in John 6:32; NOT AS YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA, AND ARE DE...
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. Ver. 58. _This is that bread_] Here our Saviour retu...
_Whoso eateth my flesh, &c., hath eternal life_ Has the principles of eternal life implanted in him, and shall enjoy it; _for I will raise him up, &c. For my flesh is meat indeed_, &c. My flesh and bl...
THIS IS THAT BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; NOT AS YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA AND ARE DEAD; HE THAT EATETH OF THIS BREAD SHALL LIVE FOREVER....
Life through Christ's sacrifice:...
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...
52-59 The flesh and blood of the Son of man, denote the Redeemer in the nature of man; Christ and him crucified, and the redemption wrought out by him, with all the precious benefits of redemption; p...
There is no more said in this verse than 1 THESSALONIANS 6:49: SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 6:49", and following verses to 1 THESSALONIANS 6:51. From this whole discours
Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer If any man eat of my bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."[47]...
John 6:58 This G3778 is G2076 (G5748) bread G740 which G3588 down G2597 (G5631) from G1537 heaven...
“This is the bread which came down from Heaven. Not as the fathers did eat and died. He who eats this bread will live for ever.” Now that He has revealed His coming death and resurrection He can say...
EXCEPT YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS BLOOD (JOHN 6:51). We are now gliding into the third phase of His teaching where He is teaching in the Synagogue, although the point at which t...
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 6:58. THIS IS THAT BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN. Here Jesus returns to the first theme. Since He has now set forth all that the true bread gives, the contrast with the manna is complete. ‘...
THIS IS THE BREAD (ουτος εστιν ο αρτος). Summary and final explanation of the true manna (from verse John 6:32 on) as being Jesus Christ himself....
John 6:58 Means to Faith the Scriptures and Prayer I. It is not enough to love the character of Christ; who can help loving it? It must be something of a closer and more personal feeling, if I may so...
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 6:22. 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...
THIS, THEN, IS THE BREAD. This is the comparison between himself and the manna. He may have pointed to himself as he said this....
_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...
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....
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...
_As the living Father_, &c.... _hath sent Me_, in the Flesh into the world, through the Incarnation, for the salvation of men. _The living Father_, who is Himself Divine Life, uncreated Substance, and...
_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...
This is — That is, I am the bread — Which is not like the manna your fathers ate, who died notwithstanding....