John 6:43-51

Jesus is the Word made flesh, the living bread, and those that partake of Him will not die but will be raised by His Spirit to spend eternity with Him. 

Christ within is the promise of His glory.

Jesus gave up His life so that we could have an abundant life with Him for eternity. Communion is sacred and holy and never to be taken lightly. Our redemption cost God the life of His only begotten Son.  

Jesus is our Redeemer King.

"Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church, or closet, nor exercised only in prayer and meditation but that everywhere I am in Thy presence." Susanna Wesley

John 6:43-51

43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore 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 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

This discussion about Jesus as the “bread of life” is often understood as John’s treatment of the Lord’s Supper (also called Holy Communion or Eucharist). The Synoptic Gospels record Jesus’ instituting the observance during the Last Supper  using the bread to symbolize His body and the wine to symbolize His blood.

Jesus’ teaching in this section repeats and reinforces that  belief in Jesus leads to eternal life. He repeats the metaphor that He is the “bread of life” and heightens the contrast between the manna that provided only physical nourishment and the bread from heaven that provides eternal life.

Jesus’ physical death is the price for the world’s spiritual life. Faithlife Bible.

God draws people by teaching them. Everyone, then, who hears and learns from the Father will come to Christ. 

Jesus was trying to get the religious leaders to see beyond the physical aspects of His teaching to the real issue—namely, that if they believed on Him they would have everlasting life. Because they did not believe, many of these disciples did not follow Jesus any longer. NKJ Bible.

The advantage of the manna was small, it only referred to this life; but the living Bread is so excellent, that the man who feedeth on it shall never die. This bread is Christ’s human nature, which he took to present to the Father, as a sacrifice for the sins of the world; to purchase all things pertaining to life and godliness, for sinners of every nation, who repent and believe in him. Matthew Henry.

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Luke 10:22 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

John 6:58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”