Jesus Offers A Better Bread (John 6:51-59) Series

Today, we continue working our way through John 6. Let's start by simply rereading, starting from verse 22. This verse picks up after Jesus fed 5,000 people the bread and the fish, and after Jesus walked on the water.

(22) On the next day, the crowd-- the one standing on the other side of the Sea -- saw

that other boats weren't there, except only one,

and that he hadn't entered with his disciples-- Jesus-- into the boat,

but his disciples alone had departed,

but boats from Tiberias came near the place

where they ate the bread/loaf, after the Lord gave thanks.

(24) Then, when the crowd saw that Jesus isn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats,

and they came to Capernaum,

seeking Jesus,

(25) and finding him on the other side of the Sea, they said to him,

"Rabbi, when here did you get?"

(26) He replied to them-- Jesus--

and he said,

"Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me,

not because you saw signs,

but because you ate from the breads/loaves,

and you were filled/satisfied.

(27) Don't work for the food-- the one perishing/being lost,

but the food-- the one abiding for eternal life,

which the son of man to you will give.

For this one, The Father-- the God-- has set his seal on.

(28) Then, they said to him,

"What shall we do,

in order that we may work the works of God?"

(29) Jesus answered,

and he said to them,

"This is the work of God: that you give allegiance to the one whom That One sent."

(30) Then, they said to him,

"Then what sign do you do,

in order that we may see it,

and give allegiance to you?

What will you work?

Our fathers, the manna, they ate in the wilderness,

just as it is written,

"Bread from heaven he gave them to eat."

(32) Then, he said to them-- Jesus--

"Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses hasn't give you the bread from heaven,

but my father is giving you the bread from heaven-- the true one.

For the bread of God is the one coming down from heaven,

and life giving to the world."

(34) Then, they said to him,

"Lord/sir, always give to us this bread."

(35) He said to them-- Jesus--

"I am the bread of life.

The one coming toward me will absolutely never hunger,

and the one giving allegiance to me will absolutely never thirst again,

but I said to you,

that indeed you have seen me,

and you don't believe/give allegiance.

(37) Each one whom the Father gives, toward me he will come,

and the one coming toward me I will absolutely never throw out,

because I have come down from heaven,

not in order that I would do my will,

but the will of The One Sending me.

(39) Now, this is the will of The One Sending me:

that each one whom He has given me, I would not lose any of them,

but I will raise them up on the last day.

(46) For this is the will of my Father,

that each one looking at the son

and giving allegiance to him would have eternal life,

and I will raise him-- I-- on the last day.

(41) Then, the Judeans were grumbling about him because he said,

"I am the bread-- the one coming down from heaven,"

(42) and they were saying,

"Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph,

whose, we know the father and the mother?

How now does he say

that "from heaven I have come down"?

(43) Jesus answered,

and he said to them,

"Don't grumble with one another.

No one is able to come toward me, unless only the Father-- the One Sending me-- draws him,

and I will raise him on the last day.

(45) It is written in the prophets,

"And they will all be taught by God."

Each one hearing from the Father and learning comes toward me.

(46) It is not that, the Father, anyone has seen,

except only the one being from God.

This one has seen the Father.

(47) Truly, truly, I say to you, the one believing/giving allegiance has eternal life.

(48) I am the bread of life.

(49) Your fathers ate in the wilderness, the manna,

and they died.

(50) This is the bread-- the one from heaven coming down,

that each one from it may/shall eat,

and he may/shall not die.

(51) I am the living bread-- the one from heaven coming down.

If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever.

So that's where we cut off last week. This week, we begin with the last half of verse 51. Jesus is still talking about how he is the bread, and how he offers bread. But now, his words takes a small step forward ("de"; "Now,). And we are going to find ourselves thinking about Jesus as bread, in a very different way suddenly: