João 6:26

26. Ye seek me This response of Jesus is even more abrupt than his opening reply to Nicodemus. See note on John 3:3. He promptly charges upon the animal nature of their motives.

Did eat… were filled For the stomach’s sake they would make him king, and for that same sake they tracked him across the lake and are here before him. He points them to an effort for the higher boon within his gift as Son of man, of which this lower is but the type and yet the pledge. With a purpose and spirit so low and animal, these men were beneath the reach of, and unsusceptible to, the Father’s drawings. They had no susceptibility for those drawings to take hold of; just as wood is unaffected by the attraction of the magnet.