John 6:47-51

“ 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 bread that comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. 51. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and this bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. ”

The words verily, verily, are uttered with the sense of authority which Jesus derives from the unique position which He holds according to John 6:46, and in opposition to the objections of the Jews (John 6:41-42). “It is thus, whatever you may say of it.” Jesus' tone becomes gradually more elevated, and assumes more of energy and solemnity. The words εἰς ἐμέ, on me, omitted by four Alexandrian documents, are perfectly suited to the context, in which the principal idea is the person of Jesus.