The bread of God ...gives life to the world
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In our entry with Jesus of Nazareth, He has just been through the miracle of feeding the five thousand, dismissed the crowd for alone-time & prayer, sends the disciples ahead and walks to catch up with them on the water…to which the crowds seeing that Jesus was missing chased after him in boats.
It is here he begins to tell them about -
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.”
They connected Jesus’ claim about bread as a sign to their past with manna, but Jesus gives a deeper claim.
Let’s catch up as we read the scripture from John 6:35, then John 6:41-51
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.
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 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’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 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— not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 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.”
Looking at how the people responded to Jesus, just after they had witnessed his miracles, and then caught up to him, we might realize a connection. A connection we have to them in these trying times.
I see the needs around me, and my question for the future. I too, would love to have a guarantee of “bread” for the rest of my life.
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.
I’d like to see the healing that Jesus gave, and if I’m not careful, to count on such healing for my wife and son and other’s who need it to the point of seeing that instead of the giver of life Himself.
This is a question about belief, and faith
This is a question about your calling to faith.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 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. 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.”
This is also a tossing out the exception of who we are, or where we’ve come from. in verses John 6:48-51 Jesus gives how he is superior to the manna their forefathers ate.
It didn’t matter about where they’d been or who they are, but that if they partake of Jesus and receive his gift, they’ll have eternal life.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
It is in this discussion that Jesus makes the case that he is the Christ, the Messiah the one promised to come. That the bread is symbolic of his body that will be given for us.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
He is the Bread of God…that gives life to the world (Jn 6:33)