John 6:32-40

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:36

‘ But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe’. However, He recognised that they were not willing genuinely to respond to this message. He realised that their belief was in the earthly leader whom they had envisioned for themselves, a military champion who would introduce the good times. It was not in what Jesus had really come to be and do. It was true that outwardly they had seen Him and heard Him, they had ‘heard His voice and seen His form’, but inwardly it was far from... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:37

“All whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will in no way cast out.” Happily, however, there would be those who would respond and would recognise Him for what He was. ‘All whom the Father gives to me will come to me.’ It is impossible to avoid here the suggestion that in the end those who truly come do so because the Father chooses them out, for the ‘giving’ by the Father is before the ‘coming’. John continually quite clearly depicts the difference between... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:38

‘For I am come down from Heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me’. He stresses once again that He has come down from Heaven, and that in order to do the Father’s will. It is important not to glide over this amazing fact. We can so take it for granted that we lose the wonder of it. For as we will discover in John 17:5 the point was that He had put aside the glory which He had had with the Father before the world was, for our sakes. He had left the splendour of heaven, and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:39

‘And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day’. And this was the will of the Father Who sent Him, that He should lose none of those who have been given to Him. Those on whom God lays His hand are eternally secure. Once He has chosen them they are safely in Jesus’ keeping, and He will raise them up at the last day. For them the resurrection of the righteous is assured. This is not because of any intrinsic... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:40

“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him, should have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Jesus now repeats John 6:39 from a different point of view to emphasise its ideas. In John 6:39 these promises are made to ‘all whom He has given Me’. That is God’s side of the issue. Now we have the other side. The promises are made to ‘every one who sees the Son and believes on Him’. So the ones who see the Son and believe in Him are the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:26-40

John 6:26-Matthew : . The Desire for a Sign: the True Manna.— After raising their expectations He had refused to go forward. In answer to their surprise at finding Him so soon across the lake He tells them why. Their hopes are confined to the material. They must seek the higher food, which leads to true life. They ask what they are to do. Believe in God’ s Messenger. But He has refused to act as God’ s Messiah. By what sign will He justify His claim to their faith? Will He give the new manna... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:32

You are mistaken in your opinion of that manna, which indeed was bread from heaven, spiritual meat, ( as the apostle calleth it, 1 Corinthians 10:3), but it was not given you by any power or virtue in or from Moses. Moses said otherwise; when it was first rained down, he told them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat, Exodus 16:15. It was the Lord, not Moses, that gave you that bread. Nor was that true spiritual bread; it was only spiritual (as the apostle calleth it) because... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:33

Moses gave you spiritual, heavenly bread; but that was only spiritual as it was typical and prefigured me; heavenly, as it came from the lower heavens, was mined down from thence, not made upon the earth by the art of man; and was therefore called the bread of angels; but I am the true bread of God, signified by that type, who came not down from the lower, but from the highest heavens; and who do not only maintain and uphold life in men, (as that did), but give life to men; and that not a mere... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:34

Most interpreters agree that they spake this seriously, that is, that they were willing enough to have such bread (if any such were to be had); but yet not conceiving aright the nature and excellency of the bread our Saviour mentioned; and this occasioned his clear explication of it in the following verse. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:35

I am the bread of life; the bread that giveth spiritual and eternal life, and the bread that upholdeth and maintains spiritual life; the Messiah, whom God hath sent into the world, to quicken those that are dead in trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1; and to give eternal life to as many as the Father hath given me. But those that have this life, must come unto me; which he interprets in the next phrase by believing in him. Thus he taketh them off all gross and carnal conceptions of eating and... read more

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