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I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."
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The Bread is His Sacrificed Flesh
In this verse, Jesus makes a crucial clarification: the life-giving bread is His 'flesh.' Commentators universally agree this points directly to His future atoning sacrifice on the cross. The source of eternal life is not merely His teaching or incarnation, but His body given for the sins of the world. As one scholar states, 'Atonement... there is the kernel of the whole matter.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The bread that I will give is my flesh. That is, his body would be offered as a sacrifice for sin, according to his declaration when he in…
The living bread (ο αρτος ο ζων). "The bread the living." Repetition of the claim in 35,41,48, but with a slight change from ζωης …
19th Century
Anglican
I am the living bread. The words are again repeated (John 6:48), but with a new fullness of meaning. He spoke…
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Baptist
I am that bread of life. Your Fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man…
The key to a genuine experience with God lies in the sequence of statements in this verse. It is vested in the person of Christ, who descended from…
16th Century
Protestant
I am the living bread. He often repeats the same thing, because nothing is more necessary to know; and everyone feels in themselves with w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I am the living bread which came down from heaven This is the same with what is said in (John 6:33[Refer…
The advantage of the manna was small; it only referred to this life. But the living Bread is so excellent that the person who feeds on it shall nev…
13th Century
Catholic
After our Lord quieted the grumbling of the Jews, He now clears up the doubt they had because of His saying, I am the living bread, w…
