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I Am the Bread of Life

22 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

23 Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.

For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you?

What work do you perform? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?

How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

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.

45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever 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 that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died.

Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

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I. Introduction

II

A. The “I Am” Statements of Jesus

A. Background/Setting- The feeding of the 5,000 ()

A. Background/Setting- The feeding of the 5,000 ()

1. Absolute “I am” statements 6:20; 8:24, 28, 58; 18:5

2. Metaphorical “I am” statements

18:5Metaphorical “I am” statements

A. Background/Setting- The feeding of the 5,000 ()

a.

I am the bread of life6:35, 48, 512.

b.

I am the light of the world8:12; 9:53.

c.

I am the door of the sheep10:7, 94.

d.

I am the good shepherd10:11, 145.

e.

I am the resurrection and the life11:256.

d.

I am the way, the truth, and the life14:67.

e.

I am the true vine15:1A.

B. Background/Setting- The feeding of the 5,000 ()

6 After this Jesus went away to the other

1..

At the end of this feeding, they would take Jesus by force to make him king (v.15)

2. Jesus had left them to go to Capernaum, a fishing village located in the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

(v.

16-19)

3.

They followed him to go to the other side.

(v.

22-24)

4. Jesus accused them of following only to satisfy their empty bellies.

(25-26)

5.

He then shifted the conversation into more spiritual matters.

6.

It is within this context that this “I am the bread of life” statement was made.

6 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw

15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

B. At the end of this feeding, they would take Jesus by force to make him king (v.15)

Background: Fe

C. Jesus had left them to go to Capernaum, a fishing village located in the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee (v.

16-19)

D. They followed him to go to the other side (v.

22-24)

II.

The Significance of “I am” and “Bread of Life”

E. Jesus accused them of following only to satisfy their empty bellies (25-26)

II.

The Significance of “I am” and “Bread of Life”

F. He then shifted the conversation into more spiritual matters.

II.

The Significance of “I am” and “Bread of Life”

G.

It is within this context that this “I am the bread of life” statement was made.

II.

The Significance of “I am” and “Bread of Life”

The

II

A. Am Who I Am (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, ehyeh asher ehyeh).

A name for God.

At the burning bush, God gives Moses this name when he asks what to tell the Israelites when they ask who sent him (4).