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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:46

“Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God, he has seen the Father.” But even though such people have heard the Father they have not seen the Father, because no man has seen God at any time (John 1:18). Indeed no one can see God and live (Exodus 33:20). But there is One, and only One, Who has uniquely seen the Father. He is the One Who is from God, and it is Jesus Himself. He alone is such that He can actually look on the Father’s glory, (a glory which had once been... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:47-50

“In very truth I tell you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.” The Pharisees believed that by reading and assiduously obeying the Law of Moses they would find eternal life by being established in the covenant. Jesus informed them that eternal life was rather to be found now by believing in Him. It was response to Him that would... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:51

“I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live for ever. Yes, and the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” In contrast to the ‘manna from Heaven’, Jesus points out that He is ‘the living bread which came down from Heaven’, heavenly food that gives life. Indeed if anyone eats of this bread (by coming to Him and believing on Him - John 6:35) he will live for ever. Thus the ‘eternal life’ is not only a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 6:51-59

Except You Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and Drink His Blood (John 6:51-59 ). We are now gliding into the third phase of His teaching where He is teaching in the Synagogue, although the point at which the break comes is not fully apparent. Now He knows that He is talking to those who are seeking His life, and His message therefore alters to take that fact into account. This explains the change in emphasis. From now on He has His coming death in view. 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

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 6:31

Here they magnify Moses; he did not bring them a law only, but confirmed it by signs from heaven to be the will of God, by obtaining for them bread to be mined from heaven to satisfy their hunger, Exodus 16:15; Numbers 11:7; which is also confirmed by the psalmist, Psalms 78:25. This Moses did for the whole congregation of Israel forty years together. From hence they would seem to conclude, that they had more ground to believe Moses than Christ, who, though he had indeed lately fed five... 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

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