John 6:48-51

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 6:48

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:50

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven ,.... Namely, that of which he had spoken John 6:32 , meaning himself: that a man may eat thereof, and not die ; for this heavenly bread is soul quickening, soul strengthening, and soul satisfying food; nor can there be any want where this is: eating of it is not to be understood corporeally, as these Capernaites took it; nor sacramentally, as if it was confined to the ordinance of the Lord's supper, which was not, as yet, instituted; but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 6:51

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; and is of an heavenly original, and came from heaven to give life to men: and such is the virtue of this living and heavenly bread, that if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever ; not a natural, but a spiritual life; a life of sanctification, which is begun here, and will be... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:48

I am that bread of life - I alone afford, by my doctrine and Spirit, that nourishment by which the soul is saved unto life eternal. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:49

Your fathers did eat manna - and are dead - That bread neither preserved their bodies alive, nor entitled them to life eternal; but those who receive my salvation, shall not only be raised again in the last day, but shall inherit eternal life. It was an opinion of the Jews themselves that their fathers, who perished in the wilderness, should never have a resurrection. Our Lord takes them on their own ground: Ye acknowledge that your fathers who fell in the wilderness shall never have a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:50

This is the bread, etc. - I am come for this very purpose, that men may believe in me, and have eternal life. read more

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