He which cometh down [ο κ α τ α β α ι ν ω ν]. So it may be rendered; but also that which, referring to artov, bread : and so, better, as Rev., since Jesus does not identify Himself with the bread until ver. 35.
THE BREAD OF GOD - The means of support which God furnishes. That which, in his view, is needful for man. IS HE ... - Is the Messiah who has come from heaven. AND GIVETH LIFE ... - See the notes at...
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 DESIRE FOR A SIGN: THE TRUE MANNA. After raising their expectations He had refused to go forward. In answer to their surprise at finding Him so soon across the lake He tells them why. Their hopes...
THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN. He here defines the marks of the true bread: 1. It comes from heaven; 2. It bestows life upon the soul and sustains it; 3. It is for the world, n...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
They said to him: "What sign are you going to perform that we may see it and believe in you? What is your work? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it stands written: 'He gave them bread f...
HE, or "That". the world. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for its inhabitants. Used in John to show that Gentiles will be included in Israel's blessing....
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 bread of God is he which_ Better, _the bread of God is_ THAT _which_. Christ has not yet identified Himself with the Bread; it is still impersonal, and hence the present participle in the Greek....
_Distinction between the material bread and the Spiritual Bread _...
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...
Ὁ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΩΝ. THAT WHICH _cometh down_. Jesus has not yet identified Himself with the Bread, which is still impersonal, and hence the present participle: CONTRAST John 6:41. There is a clear reference...
par Ver 28. Then said they to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29. Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. 30. T...
_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...
ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ КАΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G2597) спускаться, нисходить. Subst. part. Иисус не просто дает хлеб, Он Сам — дар Божий, как хлеб в ВЗ (Becker), ΔΙΔΟΎΣ _praes. act. part., см._ John 6:3...
OUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA, &C.— By extolling the miracle of the manna, by calling it _bread from heaven,_ and by insinuating that it was Moses's miracle, the Jews endeavoured to disparage Christ's mir...
THE BREAD OF LIFE, I _Text 6:30-40_ 30 They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wil...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 6:28-40 Below we give an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— It is both important and instructive to observe the connection between John 5 and Jo...
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD. This verse is per...
15 Exactly a year later (Joh_12:12-16) He presented Himself to them as their King. This effort to make Him King was premature and arose from the fact that they had not comprehended the significance of...
6:33 of (c-12) _ Ek_ . see Note, ch. 3.31....
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...
HE WHICH COMETH] RV 'that which cometh.' 35. What bread and water are to the body; that Christ is to the soul. Every aspiration after God and holiness He is able to satisfy....
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 WHICH. — Better, _that which._ The identification with Himself does not occur before John 6:35. This verse is a fuller expression of the last clause of John 6:32, to which each term answers. “My Fa...
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...
Moses therefore could not give this bread, since it comes down out of heaven. It is characterised by two attributes: (1) it is ὁ καταβαίνων ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, that which cometh down out of heaven not, as...
THE FATHER'S WILL JESUS' LAW OF LIFE John 6:30-40 On the day following, our Lord had to encounter, first the demand of the people for a continuation of the miracle of the preceding night, John 6:25-4...
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...
A life of immortality and eternal happiness to all who worthily receive it....
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...
1. VV. 25-40. This first phase is made up of four brief dialogues, each including a question of the Jews and an answer of Jesus. The last of these answers is more fully developed; Jesus expresses in...
VV. 33 applies this idea of true _bread from heaven_, to Jesus, but for the moment in obscure words. The difficulty of this verse is that the words _descending from heaven_, which are the paraphrase o...
“ _Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say unto you: Moses did not give you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the bread from heaven, the true bread;_ 33 _for the bread of God...
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)....
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...
33._For the bread of God. _Christ reasons negatively from the definition to the thing defined, in this manner: “_The heavenly bread is that which hath come down from heaven to give life to the world _...
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...
FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN,.... In the way and manner just now mentioned: and which clearly points out Christ himself, who may be called "the bread of God"; to distinguis...
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Ver. 33. _Which came down from heaven_] From the highest heaven (not out of the middle region of the air only...
_Jesus said, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven_ It was not Moses who in ancient times gave the manna to your fathers, neither was the manna _bread from heaven_, though it be so called by the p...
HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN; rather, as the original may be rendered, that which cometh down from heaven; for the Jews, as appears from the following verse, did not yet understand him as speaking...
Bread from heaven:...
FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHICH COMETH DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD....
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...
28-35 Constant exercise of faith in Christ, is the most important and difficult part of the obedience required from us, as sinners seeking salvation. When by his grace we are enabled to live a life o...
Moses gave you spiritual, heavenly bread; but that was only spiritual as it was typical and prefigured me; heavenly, as it came from the lower heavens, was mined down from thence, not made upon the ea...
Tertullian On Prayer and, a little above, "The Bread is the Word of the living God, who came down from the heavens."[41] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII lump of teaching and of truly ancient l...
John 6:33 For G1063 bread G740 God G2316 He G2076 (G5748) who G3588 down G2597 (G5723) from...
‘Jesus therefore said to them, “In very truth I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from Heaven. But my Father is giving you the true bread from Heaven. For the bread of God is that whic...
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...
WORDS TO THE CROWDS (JOHN 6:26). Jesus' initial words were spoken to the crowds who had followed Him. These were the more simple folk whose thoughts were on more food, and miraculous provision. They w...
John 6:33. FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS THAT WHICH COMETH DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN, AND GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD. The ‘bread of God' is the bread which God gives (John 6:32). It is not easy to decide on the tr...
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...
THE BREAD OF GOD (ο αρτος του θεου). All bread is of God (Matthew 6:11). The manna came down from heaven (Numbers 11:9) as does this bread (ο καταβαινων). Refers to the bread (ο αρτος, masculine). B...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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 6:1. _After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were disease...
John 6:14. _Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IS HE WHO COMES DOWN. The true bread: (1) comes down from heaven; (2) gives life to the spirit; (3) is for the entire world. Jesus is that _bread,_ and he alone can give life to mankind....
_The day following_ JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE I. OUR LORD’S AVOWAL OF HIS DIVINE NATURE AND HIS HEAVENLY ERRAND. More than thirty times in this one discourse does He use the personal pronouns “Me” and...
_What sign showest Thou then that we may see and believe_ CHRIST THE CHRISTIAN’S FOOD Hewitson writes: “I think I know more of Jesus Christ than of any earthly friend. ” Hence one who knew Him well...
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....
_For the Bread of God_, &c. Christ proves that not the manna, but His own Bread, _i.e._, He Himself, is true Bread, _i.e._, truly heavenly and Divine, by two arguments. 1. Because He alone really came...
_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 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 Timothy 1:15; John 13:3; John 16:28;...
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...
He that — giveth life to the world — Not (like the manna) to one people only: and that from generation to generation. Our Lord does not yet say, I am that bread; else the Jews would not have given him...