Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
John 6:34
Evermore give us this bread; not yet understanding its spiritual nature, but supposing it to be some miraculous kind of bread that should give life to the body.
Evermore give us this bread; not yet understanding its spiritual nature, but supposing it to be some miraculous kind of bread that should give life to the body.
Verse 34. _LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD._] Either meaning, "Let the miracle of the manna be renewed, and continue among us for ever:" or, "Let that bread of which thou hast spoken, become our co...
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...
LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD. One cannot fail to see the resemblance to the case of the woman of Sychar. There the emblem is water, here _bread;_ there Christ offers water that will permanently s...
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...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
LORD. App-98. EVERMORE. Greek. _pantote,_ see notes on John 6:35....
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...
_Then said they They said_ THEREFORE. _Lord, evermore give us this bread_ -Lord" is too strong, and makes the request too much like the prayer of a humble believer. Our translators wisely vary the ren...
_Distinction between the material bread and the Spiritual Bread _...
ΚΎΡΙΕ. ‘Lord’ is too strong, making the request too much like the prayer of a humble believer: as in John 4:11; John 4:15; John 4:19, ‘Sir’ would be better (see on John 4:11)
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...
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...
ΔΌΣ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 6:31. _Aor. imper._ призывает к специфическому действию с оттенком срочности....
DISCOURSE: 1638 THE LIVING BREAD John 6:34. _Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread_. A FANCIED approbation of the Gospel will consist with rooted enmity against it. But such an a...
LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD.— It is reasonable to imagine, as we have observed a little before, that the people who now heard our Lord were of different characters: many of them, no doubt, were...
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...
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. THEN (OR 'THEREFORE') SAID THEY UNTO HIM, LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD - speaking now with a certain reverence, as at ; the perpetui...
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...
LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US.... — Comp. Note on John 4:15. It would be better to read _Sir_ for “Lord” here, as there. They, as the Samaritan woman, think of the satisfaction of physical need. They do not...
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...
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...
St. Augustine with all the Fathers, believed that the Jews did not understand this in its proper sense; but only understood a material bread, of superior excellence to the manna, which would preserve...
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...
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)....
4. VV. 34-40. The two classes of hearers, the unbelievers and the believers. VV. 34, 35. “ _They said therefore to him: Lord, evermore give us this bread._ 35. _But Jesus said to them: I am the bread...
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...
34._Give us always this bread. _There is no doubt that they speak ironically, to accuse Christ of vain boasting, when he said that he was able to give _the bread of life. _Thus wretched men, while the...
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...
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM,.... At least some of them: LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD; that is so divine and heavenly, and has such a quickening virtue in it: these words are said by them either seri...
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Ver. 34. _Lord, evermore give us this bread_] This they speak jeeringly, as the woman of Samaria did in like case, John 4:15 ....
_Then said they, Evermore give us this bread_ On which it seems our life depends: let us always live upon this heavenly manna. Thus said some of the wiser and better part of them, though they did not...
THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD. That Jesus demanded faith in Himself as a condition of their obtaining salvation, this the Jews now understood. They therefore demanded proo...
Bread from heaven:...
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...
Most interpreters agree that they spake this seriously, that is, that they were willing enough to have such bread (if any such were to be had); but yet not conceiving aright the nature and excellency...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Elsewhere the Lord, in the Gospel according to John, brought this out by symbols, when He said: "Eat ye my flesh, and drink my blood; "[87]...
John 6:34 Then G3767 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 Him G846 Lord G2962 give G1325 (G5628) us...
‘They said therefore to him, “Lord, evermore give us this bread continually”.' They then simply asked Him to provide them with what He was talking about ‘for evermore'. This reply can be taken in two...
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...
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 6:34. THEY SAID THEREFORE UNTO HIM, LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD. We cannot see in these words the mere expression of a desire that earthly wants may be satisfied (comp. John 4:15). This wou...
LORD (Κυριε). Used now instead of _Rabbi_ (25) though how much the people meant by it is not clear.EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD (παντοτε δος ημιν τον αρτον τουτον). Second aorist active imperative...
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...
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...
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 6:14. _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 6:1. _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...
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...
GIVE US THIS BREAD ALWAYS. Compare the woman at the well, and what Jesus said to her there (John 4:10-15). They "half believe," but do not understand what it is all about....
_Lord, evermore give us this bread_ I. THE VAIN PRAYER. Because 1. It recognizes not the Giver in the bread. 2. It recognizes not the Bread of Life in the giver. II. THE ANSWER OF JESUS aims to d...
_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...
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....
_They said therefore_, &c. "Without labour, in pleasant ease let us eat joyfully this Bread, that It may prolong our life, like the tree of life in Paradise, that we may reach the years of Methuselah....
_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...
John 4:15; John 6:26; Psalms 4:6...
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...
Give us this bread — Meaning it still, in a literal sense: yet they seem now to be not far from believing....
Observe here, 1. How the carnal Jews hearing of the bread which Christ had commended so highly, and conceiving of it carnally, desire they may partake of it constantly; LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BRE...