|
Psalm 78
|
|
John 6
|
7,32
|
The works of God
|
28,29
|
The works of God
|
8,9
|
spirit not steadfast...went back
|
66
|
Many...went back and walked no more with him
|
11
|
Forgot his wonders
|
26
|
Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles
|
18,19
|
Asking meat for their lust. . Can God furnish a
table?
|
30,31
|
What sign shewest thou?...Manna in the desert
|
20
|
Bread...can he provide flesh?
|
35,52
|
I am the Bread of Life...How can this man give his flesh to
eat?
|
22
|
Believed not in God
|
36
|
Ye also have seen me, and believe not.
|
23
|
Opened the doors of heaven
|
33
|
He which cometh down from heaven
|
24,25
|
Manna...the corn of heaven
|
31,32
|
Manna...the true bread from heaven
|
29
|
They did eat, and were well filled
|
26
|
Because ye did eat...and were filled
|
31
|
The wrath of God upon them
|
49
|
Your fathers...died
|
36,37
|
They lied unto him...
|
34
|
Lord, evermore give us this bread
|
39
|
Flesh...a wind (spirit) that passeth away
|
63
|
The flesh profiteth nothing... the words that 1 speak they are
spirit and they are life
|
41
|
They turned back...and limited the Holy One of
Israel
|
66
|
Many went back
|
56-72
|
(A prophetic parable of the selection of “David”
and the casting off of Israel)
|
69
|
RV. The Holy one of God
|
23.
|
After that the Lord had given thanks. The phrase became
a kind of technical term in the early church for the
|
|
Breaking of Bread. Here it prepares the way for v.
53-56.
|
|
The Lord. In John this title is used only in 4:1; 6:23;
and the Resurrection record. Why? Were the two earlier places seen as
foreshadowing Baptism and the Breaking of Bread, both of which have their roots
in the Resurrection?
|
25.
|
Rabbi. They were in the synagogue; v. 59. But note the
deterioration of the people’s attitude to him — from v. 25, 34 to v.
41, 42, 52, 60, 66, 71.
|
27.
|
Labour not (cont. v.) for the meat which perisheth.
They were already hungry again.
|
|
Shall give unto you; v. 32, 51; 4:14.
|
|
Sealed. The word also carries the meaning consecrated;
Rev. 7:3; 9:4.
|
30.
|
Believe thee. There is a subtle difference between this
and the normal phrase: believe into.
|
33.
|
He which cometh down from heaven. The Gk. is ambiguous.
It could read: “that which”, with reference to the manna; hence v.
34; cp. v. 31, 50.
|
36.
|
Seen me. This verb very commonly refers to the
experience ot seeing divine power at work.
|
42.
|
We know. This present tense sorely implies that Joseph
was still alive.
|
48.
|
Bread of life. Note the sequence:
|
|
v26
|
Loaves
|
|
v32
|
Bread from heaven
|
|
v33
|
Bread of God
|
|
v35, 48
|
Bread of life
|
|
v51
|
The living Bread
|
|
|
|
50.
|
Cometh down from heaven. This continuous present tense
strongly disallows of any “pre-existence argument being based on this
verse or its context: cp. v. 33.
|
51.
|
The living bread. Here there is sharp contrast, of
course, with the corruptive manna.
|
|
My flesh, cp. 1:14. The synoptists’ equivalent is
“body, blood”.
|
53.
|
No life in you; 15:4; 20:31.
|
54.
|
Eateth my flesh. Here and in v. 56, 57, 58b Jesus
switches to a different word for “eat” to indicate a sacramental
partaking of Bread and Wine, which otherwise goes without specific mention in
John’s gospel. Only in this way is the omission to be explained. A
contrasting word for “eat” is used in v. 58a.
|
56.
|
Dwelleth in me, and I in him. One commentator over
aptly says: “We abide in him because we are his members: but he abides in
us because we are his temple”. See 1 Jn. 3;24; 4:15,16 — both places
referring to the Breaking of Bread (see “First Epistle of John”, by
H.A.W.).
|
56.
|
The living Father. The heavenly Father has eternal
life, and therefore I have eternal life; so whoever abides in me has eternal
life.
|
57.
|
Sent me. See on 1:6.
|
|
Live by the Father...by me. In both places,
“because of”; i.e. because of the redeeming Purpose initiated by the
Father and being fulfilled in the Son.
|
59.
|
In the synagogue. Probably a mid-week assembly, for
would such a crowd have crossed Galilee on a sabbath?
|