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Verse 51. _IS MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE_, c.] Our Lord explains his
meaning more fully, in these words, than he had done before. Having
spoken so much of the _bread_ which _feeds_ and _nourishes_ t...
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THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE IS BY FLESH - That is, his body would be
offered as a sacrifice for sin, agreeably to his declaration when he
instituted the Supper: “This is my body which is broken for you...
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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...
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THE MURMURING OF THE JEWS. The changes of persons here (_cf._ John
6:22, the multitude), and of place in John 6:59, show that this
chapter is not intended to record a continuous conversation, but to
g...
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51.. AM THAT BREAD OF LIFE.
The multitude had spoken of the manna given to their fathers. They had
all perished, for it was not the bread of life, and could not
communicate life, but the true Bread w...
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a So the Jews kept murmuring about him, because he said: "I am the
bread which came down from heaven." They kept saying: "Is this not
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can...
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THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
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LIVING. See note on John 4:10.
IF. For the condition, see App-118.
THIS BREAD. this [One before you]. One of three passages in which
"this" indicates the speaker. Compare John 2:19; Matthew 16:18.
h...
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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...
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_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...
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_the living bread_ Not merely the Bread of life (John 6:48), the
life-giving Bread, but the living Bread, having life in itself, which
life is imparted to those who partake of the Bread.
_which came d...
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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...
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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...
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51 Omit ἥν ἐγὼ δώσω after ἘΣΤΊΝ, with אBCDLT
against the mass of later MSS. A is defective here.
51. Ὁ ΖΩ͂Ν. Τῆς ζωῆς referred to its _effects_, like
the Tree of Life, which was a mere instrument; ὁ ζ...
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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...
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VER 47. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TO YOU, HE THAT BELIEVES IN ME HAS
EVERLASTING LIFE. 48. I AM THAT BREAD OF LIFE. 49. YOUR FATHERS DID
EAT MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS, AND ARE DEAD. 50. THIS IS THE BR...
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_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...
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I AM THE LIVING BREAD— Because it was a matter of infinite
importance to his hearers, that they should form a just notion of his
ability to save them, and believe in him as the Redeemer of the world,...
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THE BREAD OF LIFE, II
_Text 6:41-51_
41
The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the
bread which came down out of heaven.
42
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of...
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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...
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of
this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
I A...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WHICH I WILL GIVE] an allusion to our Lord's atoning death, as is made
evident by the mention of His blood in John 6:53. THE WORLD] Salvation
is offered to all mankind....
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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...
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I AM THE LIVING BREAD. — The words are again repeated (comp. John
6:35; John 6:48), but with a new fulness of meaning. He spoke before
of bread which was “of life,” characterised by life, producing
li...
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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...
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In this paragraph we are first told how the Jews were staggered by our
Lord's affirming that He had come down from heaven; second, how Jesus
explains that in order to understand and receive Him they m...
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In John 6:51 Jesus adds two fresh terms in explanation of the living
bread, which, however, through their want of apprehension, increased
their difficulty. The first is ἐγώ εἰμι … ζωῆς. In
giving this...
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THE FOOD OF ETERNAL LIFE
John 6:41-51
That phrase, _the last day,_ was constantly on the Master's lips, John
6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 12:48.
It is an indefinite expression for those final...
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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...
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(11) I am the (q) living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
(r) eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I
will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the...
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Christ now no longer calls the belief in him, or the preaching of the
gospel, the bread that he will give them; but he declares that it is
his own flesh, and that flesh which shall be given for the li...
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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...
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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)....
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2. VV. 41-51.
A murmur which rises in the assembly (John 6:41-42) forces Jesus to
declare to the Jews distinctly their incompetency in this matter (John
6:43-46); after which, with an increasing solem...
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“ _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...
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The affirmation of John 6:51 a is the summing up of all that precedes,
with the design of passing to a new idea (51b). The epithet ὁ
ζῶν, _the living bread_, declares even more clearly than the
expres...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_THE EUCHARIST_
‘The bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world.’
John 6:51
The Jews expressed no desire to know how to obtain this promised
blessing, but perpl...
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51._I am the living bread. _He often repeats the same thing, because
nothing is more necessary to be known; and every one feels in himself
with what difficulty we are brought to believe it, and how ea...
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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...
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I AM THE LIVING BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN,.... This is the
same with what is said in John 6:33, which is true of Christ, as he
has life in him; and is the author and giver of life to others; a...
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of
this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Ver....
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_I am the living bread_ Because it was a matter of infinite importance
to his hearers that they should form a just judgment of his ability to
save them, and believe in him as the Saviour of the world,...
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MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD; an allusion,
which could not be understood at the time by his hearers, to the gift
of his flesh on the cross for the salvation of the world....
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I AM THE LIVING BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; IF ANY MAN EAT OF
THIS BREAD, HE SHALL LIVE FOREVER; AND THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE IS
MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.
Jesus c...
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Living Bread to eat:...
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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...
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47-51 The advantage of the manna was small, it only referred to this
life; but the living Bread is so excellent, that the man who feedeth
on it shall never die. This bread is Christ's human nature, wh...
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I AM THE LIVING BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: SEE POOLE ON "1
THESSALONIANS 6:33". SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 6:35". Our
Saviour's so often inculcating this, and what follows, lets us see
both...
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Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ
of the world."[197]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Now, just before (the passage in hand), He had declared His flesh to
be "the bread which cometh dow...
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John 6:51 I G1473 am G1510 (G5748) living G2198 (G5723) bread G740
which G3588 down G2597 ...
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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...
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“I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If any man eats
of this bread he will live for ever. Yes, and the bread which I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”...
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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...
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John 6:51. I AM THE LIVING BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN. Once
more Jesus declares that the bread of which He has spoken is Himself;
but the assertion is expressed in words that differ significa...
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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...
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THE LIVING BREAD
(ο αρτος ο ζων). "The bread the living." Repetition of the
claim in John 6:35; John 6:41; John 6:48, but with a slight change
from ζωης to ζων (present active participle of ζαω). It...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_The Jews then murmured at Him because He said, I am the bread which
came down from heaven_
WEIGHTY TRUTHS
I. THAT CHRIST’S LOWLY CONDITION IS A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO THE NATURAL
MAN.
1. Had He come a...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 6:51 LIVING BREAD. Jesus satisfies the spiritual
hunger of those who believe in him.
⇐...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:14; 1 Peter 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Co
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The living bread [ο α ρ τ ο ς ο ζ ω ν]. Literally, the bread
the living (bread). Wyc., quick bread.
I will give. The ejgw, I, is emphatic, in contrast with Moses (ver.
32).
Flesh. See on 1 14.
Whic...
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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...
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If any eat of this bread — That is, believe in me: he shall live for
ever — In other words, he that believeth to the end shall be saved.
My flesh which I will give you — This whole discourse concernin...