John 6:43-51

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 6:41-51

6:41-51a 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 he now say: 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus answered: "Stop murmuring to each other. No one can come to me except the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. It stands written in the prophets: 'And all will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 6:51

6:51b-59 "The bread which I will give him is my flesh, which is given that the world may have life." So the Jews argued with each other. "How" they said, "can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them: "This is the truth I tell you--unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot possess eternal life within yourselves. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. My flesh is the real food and my... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 6:51

Let us see now if we can find out something of what Jesus meant and of what John understood from words like this. There are two ways in which we may take this passage. (i) We may take it in a quite general sense. Jesus spoke about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Now the flesh of Jesus was his complete humanity. John in his First Letter lays it down almost passionately: "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit which does not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:43

Jesus therefore answered and said unto them ,.... Either overhearing what they said, or knowing, as God, their secret murmurs, and private cavils among themselves, thus addressed them, murmur not among yourselves : meaning neither about his descent from heaven, nor about coming to him, and believing in him; for it follows, read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:44

No man can come to me ,.... That is, by faith, as in John 6:35 ; for otherwise they could corporeally come to him, but not spiritually; because they had neither power nor will of themselves; being dead in trespasses and sins, and impotent to everything that is spiritual: and whilst men are in a state of unregeneracy, blindness, and darkness, they see no need of coming to Christ, nor anything in him worth coming for; they are prejudiced against him, and their hearts are set on other things;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:45

It is written in the prophets ,.... In the book of the prophets, as the Ethiopic version renders it: the Jews divided the books of the Old Testament into three parts, the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa; now in that division which was called the Prophets, are the following words: or in one of the prophets, namely, in Isaiah 54:13 ; so the Syriac version reads, "in the prophet"; though some think reference is had to more prophets, and more passages than one, as besides the above... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:46

Not that any man hath seen the Father ,.... This is said, lest it should be thought from the above words, that our Lord meant that men should be so taught of God, as that they should visibly see the Father, and vocally hear his voice, and be personally instructed by him; for his voice is not heard, nor his shape seen; see John 1:18 ; save he which is of God ; who is begotten of him, and of the same nature and perfections with him, though a distinct person from him, and who was always... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:47

Verily, verily, I say unto you ,.... This is a certain truth, and to be depended on: he that believeth on me hath everlasting life ; not only he may have it, as in John 6:40 , and shall have it, but he has it; he has it in Christ, his head and representative; he has it in the covenant of grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has a right unto it, and a meetness for it; he has the earnest of it, the grace and Spirit of God; and he has the beginning and foretastes of it in his soul, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:48

I am that bread of life. See Gill on John 6:35 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:49

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness ,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness. It is observable, that Christ says, not "our fathers", but "your fathers"; for though Christ, as concerning the flesh, came of these fathers, yet in every sense they were rather theirs than his; because regard may be had to such... read more

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