Rather than focus on material things, the people ought to be emphasizing eternal, heavenly things. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. It only occurs one other time in the New Testament, when a demon-possessed man in the synagogue in Capernaum addressed Jesus with this title (Mark 1:24; Luke 4:34). 6 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. He taught that He alone is able to satisfy the hungry soul and provide for our bodily needs. He has recently attempted to explain that His miracles are meant to point towards a greater truth. 11:27; (Luke 10:22); John 7:29 except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. He knew that this carnally minded crowd did not believe His claims to be sent from God. What the above Jewish writer (n) objects to this part of the text is of very little moment: whose words are; "moreover, what he says, "not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me", shows, that he that sent, is not one and the same with him that is sent, seeing the will of him that is sent, is not as the will of him that sends.''. 16:16.) They had missed the point of the loaves and fishes and their eyes were blinded to the truth. Preparation for the miracle. "The people were thinking in terms of blood, flesh, lambs, and unleavened bread. It is readily granted that they are not one and the same person; they are two distinct persons, which sending, and being sent, do clearly show; but then they are one in nature, though distinct in person, and they agree in will and work. that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine, not that I might do my own will, but the will of him that sent me, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. We know we have an everlasting supply of spiritual food. May we learn what lessons the Lord has to teach us through His Word and by His Spirit. But they were more interested in the next miracle He would perform, so that they could fill their bellies for a few, short hours. So close is the relationship between Father and Son, that the perfect will of the Father reflects the perfect will of the Son. (n) R. Chizzuk Emmuna, par. 46 # John 1:18 Not that anyone has seen the Father, # Matt. not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me; that is, not to do his own will, as separate from his Father's, and much less as contrary to it; otherwise he did come to do his own will, which, as God, was the same with his Father's, he being one with him in nature, and so in power and will; and though his will, as man, was distinct from his Father's, yet not repugnant, but resigned unto it: and this will he came to do, was to preach the Gospel, fulfil the law, work miracles, and obtain the eternal redemption and salvation of his people. The Lord Jesus did not simply come to sustain their physical life but to give eternal life, and this was the vital message He sought to teach this great multitude. What does it mean that the light shines in the darkness (John 1:5)? And yet, He was rejected by this unbelieving crowd, who were more interested in their next meal than their eternal life in the kingdom to come. They were more interested in the material things of this life, than the spiritual food He offered that would feed their soul through time and into eternity. do this miraculous sign, they exclaimed, “Surely, he is the Prophet we have been expecting!” # 6:14b See Deut 18:15, 18; Mal 4:5-6. 2. c. 44. p. 434. When I was young, in my study of the Bible I was puzzled by John 7:39, which says: “(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” (KJV). "No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever thirst again.". For with the measure you use it … "But as I told you before, you've seen Me and yet you do not believe," Jesus continued. He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Genesis and Revelation, the Source and Conclusion... and the Author and Finisher of our faith. JOHN 6 VERSES 1 THROUGH 21. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. ", For those of us who read this passage today, we gain great joy and satisfaction in knowing that we, who came to Christ and believed on Him, will never be cast out. Verse 35 may seem a strange place for the lectionary to end this reading, since Jesus’ words continue without interruption in verse 36 (would … Continue reading "Commentary on John 6:24-35" Keep me from developing carnal desires and fleshly appetites, and I pray that I may feed on Him in my heart, by faith with thanksgiving and praise, all the days of my life, for His greater praise and glory. But the best texts read ἐκ, from, instead of ἐκ, out of, the idea being rather that of departure (I came down) than of origin. John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. I came down should be as Rev. "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out. In Him was Life everlasting. [⇑ See verse text ⇑] The people are struggling to understand Jesus' teachings. John 7:38 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] John 7:38, NIV: "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.'" Jesus wanted to show... that just as He was able to heal all their sicknesses and provide for their physical needs, He is also the One Who could heal the broken soul, release them from the slave-market of sin, bind up their emotional distresses, and bring inner peace and joy to their heart. So united in Spirit and Truth are the Son and the Father, that Jesus was the radiance of His heavenly glory on earth. Jesus came down to earth from heaven to breathe new life into those who were dead in their sin and estranged from God. They refused to believe in Jesus unless He produced a miracle.. equivalent to that of Moses - who 'fed' the children of Israel with manna for 40 years! After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. What does it mean that the Word was in the beginning (John 1:1)? According to Church tradition, their mother was Salome. (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. He came to bring hope for the lost, joy for the sorrowing, strength for the weak, and encouragement for the downhearted. He was the Lord Whom king David worshipped, for He was the root and stem of Jesse. Jesus was attempting to teach this unbelieving crowd that His life did not begin in Bethlehem as the son of Mary. Jesus told this crowd the truth when He called Himself, "the Bread of Life", for in Him was Life. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Jean 6:38 Interlinéaire • Jean 6:38 Multilingue • Juan 6:38 Espagnol • Jean 6:38 Français • Johannes 6:38 Allemand • Jean 6:38 Chinois • John 6:38 Anglais • Bible Apps • Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. It is the word for drawing a heavily laden net to the shore (John 21:6; John 21:11). Thank You that Jesus is the Living Bread of Life, and that in Him is eternal life for ALL who believe on His name. Throughout His ministry, Jesus was teaching the people that He had been sent from God to carry out the will of the Father. He was first a disciple of John the Baptist. They would not trust the words that came from the incarnate Word of God, Who told them, "I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me.". John 6:40. Jesus gave a detailed discourse about the Bread of Life to the same multitude who had just partaken of the five barley loaves and two small fishes. He was the eternal Word of God, made flesh. 14 When the people saw him # 6:14a Some manuscripts read Jesus. He was the Giver of Life, and He is the Sustainer of Life. He existed before Abraham and was greater than Moses. When He referred to Himself as, "the Bread of Life", He was meaning spiritual Life - eternal Life. It is the word for drawing a sword from the belt or from its scabbard ( John 18:10 ). He sent His Son to pay the price so He could purchase us. What is the meaning of “grace upon grace” in John 1:16? This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. He came to bring hope for the lost, joy for the sorrowing, strength for the weak, and encouragement for the downhearted. "I am the bread of life", He told them. May we rejoice in the joy of our salvation and may we become so rooted and grounded in Him that we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length, and width, height, and depth of God’s love, and to know the love that surpasses knowledge - so we may be filled with all the fullness of God. It is used of Paul and Silas being dragged before the magistrates in Philippi ( Acts 16:19 ). John the Apostle was the son of Zebedee and the younger brother of James, son of Zebedee (James the Greater). He was the incarnate Word. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Sacrifice and Offering (Easter Reflections - (9). Δὲ, moreover) The will of the Father, mentioned in John 6:38, is more fully declared in this ver.— τοῦ πέμψαντός με Πατρός —40, τοῦ Πατρὸς τοῦ πέμψαντός με, of Him who hath sent Me, even the Father—of the Father, who hath sent Me) Such is the oldest reading What does John 6:38 mean? It also summarizes the events in John 6. John 6:33 "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven." And this is the Father's will which hath sent me. Wesley's John 18:38 Bible Commentary 18:38 What is truth? He was proclaiming to be the promised Messiah, Who had come in fulfilment of Scripture. 47 Most assuredly, I say to you, # (John 3:16, 18) he who believes in Me has everlasting life. This sequence describes the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. At the same time, we understand that food enters the body as one eats and becomes a more or less permanent part of the body as the body uses it. The copyist was trying to harmonize John 6:69 with Matt. 6:4 toV pavsca, hJ eJorthV tw'n =Ioudaivwn According to John’s sequence of material, considerable time has elapsed since the feast of 5:1. In John 6:38 Jesus went further in explaining this. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. John 6:38 "I came down from heaven." When He referred to Himself as, "the Bread of Life", He was meaning spiritual Life - eternal Life. This may be part of John’s emphasis on the reality of the flesh and blood of Jesus (cf. 15 When Jesus saw that they were ready to force him to … He said, “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.” This was always God’s plan for us. JOHN 6 VERSES 22 THROUGH 25. John 6:35 Context. 39 And this is the a Father’s b will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose c nothing, but should d raise it up again at the last day. Jesus is the centre and circumference of life. “The Holy One of God” is an unusual designation for Jesus. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and He is the True Vine, without Whom we can do nothing. But the crowds in Jerusalem Who heard the Son of God proclaim this staggering truth, refused to see God the Son standing in their midsts. The Gospel of John shows Jesus at the head of a new Exodus, leading His disciples out of the bondage of the world, through the trials of mortality, and on to eternal life. John 6:38. John Chapter 6 can also be found near the bottom of this webpage at this link. John’s account specifically mentions three Passovers (Joh 2:13; 6:4; 11:55), and a fourth one is most likely referred to by the expression “a festival of the Jews” at Joh 5:1. Also according to some traditions, Salome was the sister of Mary, Jesus' mother, making Salome Jesus' aunt, and her sons John the Apostle and James were Jesus' cousins. - Said Pilate, a courtier; perhaps meaning what signifies truth? the will of Him that sent Me—What this twofold will of Him that sent Him is, we are next sublimely told (Joh 6:39, 40): "if this respects the descent of the soul, the soul of every man descended from thence; but if it respects the body, the rest of the evangelists contradict his words, particularly Luke, when he says, Luke 2:7 that his mother brought him forth at Bethlehem.''. John 6:39. John 6 – The Bread from Heaven A. Preachers may need to remind their congregations about last week’s text and the feeding of the multitude because in today’s text, John begins to unpack the meaning of that earlier event. What does it mean that the Word became flesh (John 1:14)? For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. Jesus came to do the will of His Father by bringing redemption to the lost race of man. Everywhere Jesus forestalls the idea that He is speaking for Himself, and is uttering merely human judgments, or is in any way regulated in His action by what is arbitrary: it is the Supreme Will He represents. Evidently John identified the nearness of the Passover because of Jesus" later references to Himself as the Bread of Life ( John 6:33; John 6:35; John 6:51), the fulfillment of what the Passover bread typified. Jesus has existed from all eternity with His heavenly Father - yet they refused to recognise Him and believe Him. His treatment of scripture is essential to What does John 1:1,14 mean when it says that Jesus is the Word of God? But this descent regards neither his soul nor body, but his divine person, which always was in heaven, and not any local descent of that; but, as before observed, an assumption of human nature, which he took of the virgin on earth; and so there is no contradiction between the evangelists; nor is descent from heaven unsuitable to Christ as a divine person, since it is ascribed to God, Genesis 11:7; and if God may be said to go down from heaven by some display of his power, and intimation of his presence, Christ may be said to descend from heaven by that marvellous work of his, taking upon him our nature, and walking up and down on earth in the form of a servant; and which was done with this view, as he says. The Lord Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life. Verse 4. THE MEANING OF JOHN 7:39. The eternal word will leave no doubt as to its meaning. Jesus often used the natural to illustrate a spiritual truth, and the feeding of their bodies with food was used as a demonstration of what He could do for them in the spiritual realm. This example highlights the value of comparing the Gospel accounts to gain a more complete picture of Jesus’ life. Jesus alone is the One that can supply the spiritual food every one of us so desperately needs. Is that a thing worth hazarding your life for?So he left him presently, to plead with the Jews for him, looking upon him as an innocent but weak man. He was the Giver of Life, and He is the Sustainer of Life. Heavenly Father, thank You that the Lord Jesus set aside his position in heaven to come down to earth as a Man, to dress Himself in human flesh, and live a perfect life so that we might be redeemed by faith in His shed blood. but—in respect to both the foregoing things, the divine and the human side of salvation. The tense is the perfect. John chapter 6 KJV (King James Version) 1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.. 3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.. 4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. Lucifer is the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus.Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or the underworld. And He came to supply spiritual food for hungry soul. But the Lord could read their hearts. Although they were prompted to follow Jesus, it was only to gratify their earthly appetites and not to satiate their spiritual poverty. 1. In this first part of the chapter Jesus feeds 5,000 people with just five barley loaves and two little fish. Luke 6:38 says, "Give, and it will be given to you. Jesus was the exact image of His Father's essence - in holiness and purity, in goodness and grace, in compassion and mercy, and in every godly attribute forever and ever. (I am come down). He was in the beginning with God and He Himself was God. THE JEWISHNESS OF JOHN’S USE OF THE SCRIPTURES IN JOHN 6:31 AND 7:37-38 Glenn Balfour Summary Two of some eighteen citations of scripture in the Fourth Gospel are examined in detail in order to demonstrate that John’s use of the Old Testament is based on received Jewish exegetical methods. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 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