Better Manna(s)

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Claim - The Bread of Life provides the essential sustenance (bread) for eternal life with God (life) - Jesus is that bread, and is eaten through God allowing belief in him.
Focus - Our only eternal hope is to ask God to give us belief in Jesus.
Function - To reject the food of this world (passions and views) and devour the glorious flesh of Jesus!
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Three Stale Rolls!

3 stale bread rolls

1 - Bread of this life v25-26

2 - Bread of the religious

3 - Bread of our own recipie

(followers left Jesus - He’s not the bread they thought he was)

One Perfect Loaf!

1 - Better than the three stale rolls

2 - Where can I buy this perfect loaf?

Plead to God for mercy - Believe in Jesus

3 - Nutrilional value of Jesus?

- etenral assurnce, he never looses a dinner!
One mouthful of the Bread of Life is eternal, assuarance!

Looking for Jesus - v22-26

Looking for Jesus - v22-26
A recap of the feeding of the 5000 - showing that they missed the key point of the miracle - which was to point owards the gospel - all based on who Jesus is! It had a parabolic meaning.
John is about to therefore explain it using the ‘Bread of Life’ teaching of Jesus that was taught v59 at the synagog in Caperneum.
Remeber this isn’t a chronoligical account, but a topical overview of the life of Jesus - he’s joining the dots between symbolic actions and signs and the teaching points of Jesus.
We too ought ot be looking for Jesus!

You need Better Manna(s) - v27-34

The miracle of feeding 5000 led them to think he was the promised prpphet - IE - one better than Moses! But moses provided manna in the dessert, so Jesus’ feeding of the 5000 wasn’t that amazing in the grande scheme! They need greater proof - what is the ‘better’ thing you are going to do!
THEY ARE RIGHT! JESUS WILL DO SOMETHING BETTER!
Don’t work or look (or do anythgin) that persihes - they are poor goals - another meal etc. Instaed aim for eternal life! They think it’s all about work - so JEssu sets them straight - it’s not work per say - it’s the goal! Therfreo the work he makes the goal - believe!
v31

The exact source of the quotation is disputed. The most likely passage is Psalm 78:24 (LXX 77:24), but the Greek has echoes also of Nehemiah 9:15 and perhaps Exodus 16:4, 15; Psalm 105:40. Perhaps John is quoting the Old Testament loosely and alluding to all three passages.

Jesus the bread of life (absolutely everything you need in life - and eternal security is found in belief in Jesus!!) - v35-48

Flesh and Blood

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to John 5. The ‘Bread of Life’ Discourse (6:22–58)

What is promised to the person who eats Jesus’ flesh and drinks his blood is eternal life and resurrection at the last day (6:54), and such things are elsewhere in the Fourth Gospel promised to those who believe in the Son, or receive him. It begins to sound as if the language should be taken metaphorically, not sacramentally (in the most theologically ‘loaded’ sense of ‘sacrament’).

Eating the Flech - Very normal idea - v49-59

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to John 5. The ‘Bread of Life’ Discourse (6:22–58)

Eating the flesh of the Son of Man is a striking, metaphorical way of saying that the gift of God’s real ‘bread of life’ (v. 35) is appropriated by faith (v. 47). We must appropriate him into our inmost being. Indeed, as Beasley-Murray (p. 99) points out, we are more familiar with this kind of ‘eating’ metaphor than we may realize: we devour books, drink in lectures, swallow stories, ruminate on ideas, chew over a matter, and eat our own words. Doting grandparents declare they could eat up their grandchildren. On the very face of it, ‘The theme of John 6 is Christology.’

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to John 5. The ‘Bread of Life’ Discourse (6:22–58)

if in dialogue with the church and therefore somewhat aware of the church’s regular celebration of the Lord’s supper, would be likely to see in the rite itself a pictorial pointer to the central object of faith, the Lord Jesus himself. ‘John 6 is not about the Lord’s Supper; rather, the Lord’s Supper is about what is described in John 6.’

A hard teaching - 60-71

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