Bread From Heaven?

John 6:41–51

41 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”

A reminder of what we’ve encountered in Ch 6. A miraculous feeding, a miraculous sea crossing, Moses, I AM statements, today grumbling. Which as we’ve mentioned places us in a new and greater exodus. Is it a new and greater people?

42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

“Do not marvel at this!”

The false claim to knowledge, and the assertion of unsubstantial objections, are both met in the same manner. The Jews were unable to understand the divine descent of the Lord, which seemed irreconcilable with His actual circumstances.

He replies that

a spiritual influence is necessary before His true Nature can be discerned, and that such influence was promised by the prophets as one of the characteristic blessings of the Messianic age. ~Westcott

As long as you stay “amongst yourselves”, you will have no ability to perceive such marvels.

44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

“No one”.

Has the power or ability. It is not

Universal statement. It means no one.

Jeremiah 31:3 “3 The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.”

45 “It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

46 “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

47 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

48 “I am the bread of life.

49 “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.