Meat indeed
(αληθης βρωσις). So the best MSS., "true food." See on John 4:32 for βρωσις as equal to βρωμα (a thing eaten).Drink indeed
(αληθης ποσις). Correct text, "true drink." For ποσις see Romans 14:17; Colossians 2:16 (only N.T. examples).
Verse 55. _MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK_ _INDEED._] Or, rather, _My flesh is the true meat_, c. In both clauses of this verse, instead of αληθως, the _adverb_, I read αληθης, the _a...
In these verses Jesus repeats what he had in substance said before. EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH ... - He did not mean that this should be understood literally, for it was never done, and it is absurd to s...
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...
MY FLESH IS MOST INDEED. Is food indeed. The body does not feed upon it, but the soul. Its hunger and thirst are satisfied, and by the appropriation of this, it becomes endowed with the vital princip...
THE LOAVES AND FISHES (John 6:1-13)...
INDEED. truly. Greek. _alethos._ All the texts read _alethes_ (App-175) but not the Syriac....
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...
_my flesh is meat indeed_, &c. According to the best reading; _My Flesh is_ TRUE FOOD _and My Blood is_ TRUE _drink_; i.e. this is no misleading metaphor, but an actual fact....
_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...
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...
ἈΛΗΘΉΣ for ἀληθῶς twice: Origen substitutes ἀληθίνη. 55. ἈΛΗΘΉΣ. This reading has the highest authority; ἀληθῶς and ἀληθινή are corrections to make the passage easier. In John 4:37 we had ἀληθινός wh...
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...
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...
ΒΡΏΣΙΣ (G1035) пища. Praed. _пот._ ΑΛΗΘΉΣ (G227) истинная, подлинная, ΠΌΣΙΣ (G4213) напиток....
DISCOURSE: 1641 THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING BY FAITH ON CHRIST John 6:53. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso e...
WHOSO EATETH MY FLESH,— "Whoso thus feedeth upon me by living faith, has the principle of eternal life implanted in him, and, if faithful unto death, shall enjoy it, because I will raise him up at the...
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...
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED....
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...
MEAT INDEED] lit. 'true meat.. true drink,' i.e. true nourishment for the soul....
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...
FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED. — Better, _for My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink._ This verse further explains that he who eateth the flesh and drinketh the blood hath eternal life, for 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...
This is further shown in John 6:55-56. ἡ γὰρ σάρξ μου ἀληθῶς [better ἀληθής] ἐστι βρῶσις, “For my flesh is a genuine food and my blood is a genuine drink”; with an implied contrast to those things wit...
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...
Jesus Christ, to confirm the notion his disciples had formed of a real eating of his body, and to remove all metaphorical interpretation of his words, immediately adds, "Unless you eat the flesh of th...
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...
“ _Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves._ 54. _He who eats my flesh and...
VER. 54. After having given this explanation in a negative form (without this eating and this drinking, impossibility of living), Jesus completes the expression of His thought by adding: By this eatin...
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...
55._For my flesh is truly food. _He confirms the same statement by other words, “As the body is weakened and consumed by the want of food, so the soul, if it be not fed with heavenly bread, will soon...
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 MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED,.... Not in a corporeal, but in a spiritual sense; and the same is said of his blood: AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED, c. that is, they are both "truly" meat and drink, as th...
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. Ver. 55. _For my flesh is meat indeed_] That that will do the deed. It is neither painted meat nor enchanted, but real and substantial; yet...
_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...
MEAT INDEED-DRINK INDEED; I am the giver and sustainer of endless spiritual life....
Life through Christ's sacrifice:...
FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED....
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...
I, as a Christ crucified, not merely considered as to my Divine nature, but as to both natures united in one person, and particularly with respect to my death and suffering, am indeed the food of soul...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For those who are full-grown are said to drink, babes to suck. "For my blood," says the Lord, "is true drink."[81] Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topi...
John 6:55 For G1063 My G3450 flesh G4561 is G2076 (G5748) food G1035 indeed G230 and G2532 My...
‘For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him'. Here He was again emphasising the importance of His death, for without i...
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...
John 6:53-55. JESUS THEREFORE SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE HAVE EATEN THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRUNK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NOT LIFE IN YOURSELVES. HE THAT EATETH MY F...
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...
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 6:22. 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 6:41. _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 6:41. 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 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...
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...
IF YOU DO NOT EAT THE FLESH. John 6:63 shows us these words are symbolic. The very thought of drinking blood was offensive to the Jews, who were forbidden to taste blood (Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:10-...
_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...
_He that cometh_ &c. _Eateth, i.e._, says Ruperti, worthily, with due preparation and purification, with a previous act of contrition and sacramental confession, if a man have any mortal sin upon his...
_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 5:20; Hebrews 8:2; John 1:47; John 1:9; John 15:1;...
Indeed [α λ η θ ω ς]. Literally, truly. The best texts read ajlhqhv, true : true meat, true drink....
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...
Meat — drink indeed — With which the soul of a believer is as truly fed, as his body with meat and drink....