John 6:47-65

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:61-62

‘But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?” ’ Aware of their murmuring and the danger of their falling into disbelief Jesus answered them by pointing to His resurrection. ‘Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?’ (John 6:62). Though His death must come, He told them, it would be followed by resurrection, and the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:63

“It is the Spirit who makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”.’ This now brought Him to the essence of the matter. “It is the Spirit who makes alive. The flesh is of no benefit’. Jesus in the flesh alone can do nothing for them, and when He has spoken of flesh He has not been talking about literally eating physical flesh, but about flesh being offered in sacrifice from which they must spiritually benefit (something well illustrated in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:64-65

‘But there are some of you who do not believe’ (for Jesus knew from the beginning which of them did not believe, and who it was who would betray him). And he said, “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is given to him by the Father”.’ But Jesus knew that among His wider group of disciples were some who did not truly believe. They had their own motives for following Him. So once again Jesus recognised the sovereign work of the Father in the salvation and destiny of men.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:41-51

John 6:41-Colossians : . 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 give specimens of Christ’ s teaching as the author has come to see its meaning, of objections raised and how they were answered. Jesus’ claims are challenged on the ground of His lowly origin ( cf. Luke 4:22, Mark 6:3). The answer takes up the thought of John... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:52-65

John 6:52-Jude : . 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 such means. The reference to the sacrificial death is made clearer by the addition “ and drink His blood.” The true life can be gained only by the assimilation of the “ Body” and the “ Blood,” the life set free by death for wider purposes. Those who partake of this “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:47-48

See Poole on "John 3:18". See Poole on "John 3:36". See Poole on "John 6:35". read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:49

Your fathers by nature, or in respect of unbelief, did eat manna in the wilderness, and they are naturally dead; (manna would not always preserve their natural life); and those of them who were unbelievers, are also dead eternally; their eating of manna, which was a type of me, without believing in me, would not save them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:50

But I am that bread of life, who came out of the highest heavens, from the bosom of my Father; that bread, which if a man eateth thereof, he shall never die eternally. Eating Christ in this text signifieth no more than believing in him, so often before mentioned under the notion of coming to him, believing in him, &c. And believing is fitly expressed by this notion of eating; because as eating is the application of meat to our stomachs, for the sustenance of our bodily life; so believing is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: See Poole on "John 6:33". See Poole on "John 6:35". Our Saviour’s so often inculcating this, and what follows, lets us see both how necessary this is to be known, and also how difficult the work of believing is. Those words, he shall live for ever, expound those that went before in the John 6:50, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. His saying that the bread which he giveth is his flesh, expounds what he said before, viz. how he is the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:52

They will still understand spiritual things in a carnal sense; yet it is hard to conceive how they could imagine that Christ spake of giving them his flesh to eat, as men eat the flesh of oxen or sheep; but which way soever they did understand it indeed, their captious temper inclined them to conceal any other sense they had of it, and to represent what our Saviour said as exceedingly absurd. read more

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