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John 6:51
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49 aYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  
50 aThis is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.  
51 I am the living bread awhich came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and bthe bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”  
52 The Jews therefore aquarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”  
53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless ayou eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.  
54 aWhoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.  
55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is2 drink indeed.  
56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood aabides in Me, and I in him.  
57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
58 aThis is the bread which came down from heaven—not bas your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”  
59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

Many Disciples Turn Away

60 aTherefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a1 hard saying; who can understand it?”  
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John 6:51

The living bread (o artov o zwn). "The bread the living." Repetition of the claim in 0:0-1:1, but with a slight change from zwhv to zwn (present active participle of zaw). It is alive and can give life. See John 4:10 for living water. In Revelation 1:17 Jesus calls himself the Living One (o zwn).

For ever (eiv ton aiwna). Eternally like aiwnion with zwhn in John 6:47.

I shall give (egw dwsw). Emphasis on egw (I). Superior so to Moses.

Is my flesh (h sarc mou estin). See on John 1:14 for sarc the Incarnation. This new idea creates far more difficulty to the hearers who cannot grasp Christ's idea of self-sacrifice.

For the life of the world (uper thv tou kosmou zwhv). Over, in behalf of, uper means, and in some connexions instead of as in John 11:50. See John 1:30 for the Baptist's picture of Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. See also John 3:17; John 4:42; I John 3:16; Matthew 20:28; Galatians 3:13; II Corinthians 5:14 f.; Romans 5:8. Jesus has here presented to this Galilean multitude the central fact of his atoning death for the spiritual life of the world.




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