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Step 1 - Create an account or log in to start your free trial. Three easy steps to start your free trial subscription to Bible Gateway Plus. The reason the crowds are hovering around Jesus is that these folks are hoping He will provide them with free bread forever. They have been given a free meal, and they want more of the same. We need to read verse 27 very carefully lest we misunderstand our Lord here as His audience does.
In the Greek text, the verb is an imperative in the present tense, and it is negated. The negation conveys the thought that men should not work—more precisely, that men should stop working. I do not believe we are to read them into the text as we do. Jesus is not suggesting that men cease working for earthly bread, but work hard for heavenly bread. It is not bread for which men work. Thus, the sense of His words would be something closer to: Under this Microsoft seal, these words are printed: As a result, I am reluctant to translate or retranslate the text.
I am going to make an exception here, however, because the order of the words in the Greek text seems to suggest the answer to one of our questions. Literally rendered, the text would read something like this: Of course this is true. But our Lord may be saying that the Father has sealed Him as God. In other words, Jesus has been performing miracles—doing the work of His Father. This claim of our Lord is the claim He made in chapter 5, the same claim which got Him into trouble with the Jewish religious leaders in Jerusalem.
Jesus does just the opposite. Once again He boldly makes this claim as a part of His gospel. Men who would receive the gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ must receive it from Him as God. Someone might conceivably come to faith in Jesus without fully grasping this truth, but as I read the Scriptures, no one will receive eternal life from Jesus who rejects His deity. This is why Jesus makes such a point of this truth.
What will you do? They think that Jesus is encouraging them to accomplish some work that will please God, and thus they can earn eternal life. They think the law spells out what God requires of them, so that through law-keeping they can earn His favor. Paul sums up what the role of the law really is, and how men must be saved:. For there is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. Salvation is accomplished through the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Men are not saved by striving, but simply by believing in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life. The Jews once again take these words the wrong way. They reason something like this: If we are to believe in Him, then He must prove Himself to us, showing us that He is worthy of our trust. He must perform some very impressive miracle if He is going to get us to believe in Him. This is truly amazing.
They seem to ask for one great work, one magnificent miracle. They then seek to remind Jesus of what Moses did or at least what they thought he did. They claim that Moses gave their ancestors bread from heaven to eat. Jesus is expected to meet or exceed this standard. They are requiring that for them to believe in Jesus as their Messiah, Jesus must provide bread from heaven, as Moses did. This manna was provided for the Israelites for 40 years. It seems that this is at least how long Jesus is expected to provide bread for them.
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First, the words which Jesus is about to speak are of the utmost importance. Second, it was not Moses who gave the Israelites bread in the wilderness; it was God. This is the clear teaching of the Scriptures which speak of the feeding of the Israelites in the wilderness:. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not Exodus The people asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven Psalm The bread is a Person. Jesus is that bread:. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.
They still think Jesus is offering them some kind of literal bread, which they can eat and fill their stomachs, just as they ate the barley loaves at the feeding of the 5, If these folks are to believe in Jesus as He has said they must in verse 29 , then they must have proof, and He must provide it. They expect Jesus to perform some miracle to prove that He is worthy of their faith. The fact is that Jesus has already performed many miracles, and yet they have not believed in Him. So now Jesus takes up the matter of their unbelief.
He has already told them all they need to know, and they have seen Him at work, performing many miracles—miracles such as the feeding of the 5, None of this brings them to faith, however. They persist in their unbelief. The reason for this is not popular, but it is true:. Everyone the Father gives to the Son comes to Him in faith.
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And everyone who comes to the Son in faith will be accepted—none will ever be sent away verse The Son will not act independently of the Father, but only in submission to the Father. If the Father gives someone to the Son as a believer, the Son will receive this individual, because the Father has given them to Him. No wonder Satan sought to tempt our Lord to act independently of the Father! And those the Father gives, He gives for keeps, and the Son does keep them. He turns none away who come to Him, and He loses none of those He receives. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever.
The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. By this time, there are many differing opinions about Jesus. The Jewish religious leaders have long since made up their minds that Jesus will not be the Messiah—not if they have anything to do with it! They have, in fact, already determined to put Him to death see 5: Some would have Jesus as their king, even if by force see 6: A number are still undecided about Jesus, but some sincerely believe in Him as the Messiah. Included in this number are the 11 disciples and a number of others see 1: Some of the people seem to embrace the view of their religious leaders, rejecting Jesus as an impostor, or at least not their kind of Messiah.
Notice that their words are not addressed to Jesus, but to others about Jesus: It underscores the alleged inconsistency those who oppose Jesus are claiming. We know about His birth as a mere man. How can he now, at this point in his life, claim to be divine? If Jesus was born of earthly parents alone, then His claim to have come from heaven is absurd. In one sense, Mary and Joseph were the earthly parents of our Lord.
Mary was His biological mother, while Joseph was not His biological father. Had these folks given careful heed to the Old Testament Scriptures, they would have known that the promised Messiah was to be both human and divine, God and man see Deuteronomy He was to be born of a virgin Isaiah 7: He was to be born in Bethlehem Micah 5: The asking of the question is not wrong, in and of itself. We should not hesitate to probe the claims of Jesus Christ and to expect a reasonable answer. This question is wrong because of the facts it assumes, and because it totally disregards other crucial facts.
Look at the miracles our Lord performs in chapter 2 and elsewhere 5: Our Lord did not testify alone to His divine and heavenly origins; there were many witnesses. But His opponents closed their eyes to these witnesses. Theirs was a willful unbelief. Our Lord responds to this complaint, but not in a way His adversaries expect, and certainly not in a way they wish.
Jesus tells them to stop mumbling to one another. Do they not believe Him? This is no blow to His pride, nor is it a shock. They do not believe because they cannot believe. Jesus explains that it is impossible for anyone to believe in Him unless the Father who sent Him draws them, and these He Jesus will raise up in the last day verse God must draw men to faith in the Son, the same God who sent the Son.
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Do these folks find it impossible to believe in Jesus? Jesus is not taken aback by their unbelief. Jesus does not strive to convince them that He is who He claims to be. He simply tells them that they are not among those whom the Father has given Him.