Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 6:14

"When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, This is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world." — John 6:14 (ASV)

Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

But the faith that comes by the way of the stomach is not worth much. If people are converted by loaves and fishes, bigger loaves and bigger fishes will make them go the other way; converts made thus are of small worth.

Then those men, when they had seen the miracle which Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

They were convinced through their stomachs. They came to this conviction merely through eating and drinking, and that faith which comes by the senses is no faith at all, or it is a sensual faith which cannot save the soul. These people, who came to this belief through eating, were very poor followers of Christ, as he said to them, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.