{"id":1292,"date":"2020-09-28T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2020-09-28T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:35:45","slug":"i-am-the-bread-of-life-john-635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"I am the Bread of Life John 6:35"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOHN 6:55 = The first of the seven great I AM sayings in John\u2019s Gospel. Followed by some words which are harder to understand
\nvv53-55 What did Jesus mean ?
\nSpecifically \u2013 is this eucharistic language? Relating to the Lord\u2019s Supper or communion, C.f. Matthew 26:26-29 ?
\nI think John 6 is NOT Eucharistic language, not referring to communion, for a number of reasons.
\n1 John doesn\u2019t record institution of the Lord\u2019s Supper. Instead in the Upper Room John 13 describes Jesus washing his disciples feet.
\n2 Word in Matthew 26 at last supper is body soma, Jesus\u2019s physical body
\nWord in John 6 is flesh \u2013 sarx \u2013 referring here to Jesus\u2019s life on earth
\n3 Whatever Jesus said in John 6 would need to make some kind of sense to disciples at the time Jesus said it, which was BEFORE the Last Week and the Upper Room. So the disciples would not hear Jesus talking about \u201ceating his flesh\u201d and immediately think of taking communion, because Jesus had not yet instituted the Lord\u2019s Supper.
\nV 52 Jews misunderstood \u2013 as if Jesus was suggesting literally eating his flesh = cannibalism. That was universally condemned at that time. Although later on, probably around the time John was writing his Gospel, the Romans would make the same mistake and accuse the early church of cannibalism because they misunderstood what they heard about the Lord\u2019s Supper. But that does not mean that was what Jesus was saying or intending.
\nVv 54-56 \u201cDrinking his blood\u201d was not only a universal taboo. In addition, for Jews the drinking of the blood of any animal was forbidden in the Old Testament. You might remember how that prohibition was one of just four Old Testament regulations imposed on Gentile Christians by the church at Jerusalem in Acts 15. Even more than that in Leviticus 17 the Israelites were specifically prohibited from drinking the blood of the Passover Lamb.
\nSo whatever \u201ceating his flesh and drinking his blood\u201d would mean, Jews would know that it was a metaphor and not to be taken literally.
\n57-58 Jesus talks about feeds on me, and feeds on this bread from heaven. This feeding must be a metaphor, symbolic language, in the same way as the claim \u201cI am the bread of life\u201d is a metaphor.
\nV27 = food that endures for eternal life.
\nV32-33 = true bread from heaven is not the Manna that Moses gave to the Israelites in the wilderness, but Jesus who is himself the Bread of Life
\nV 35 Jesus is the Bread of Life
\nVv39-40 The heart of Jesus\u2019s work of salvation was to bring eternal life, which itself was an anticipation of the Resurrection of the Dead on the last day.
\nVv48-51 Eating the Bread of Life, feeding on Jesus, whatever that means, is what brings a person eternal life. But this is not referring to cannibalism. Nor is it referring to receiving the bread and wine in a communion service.
\nSo how do we feed on Jesus?
\nV29 \u2013 we feed on Jesus by believing in Jesus. In John\u2019s Gospel believing in Jesus means believing that He is indeed the Son of God and putting our trust in Jesus as our Saviour.
\nV35 \u2013 we believe in Jesus.
\nV40 we come to Jesus, we look to Jesus and we put our trust in Him.
\nV47 Truly, Truly I say to you
\nThe one who believes has eternal life!
\nV51 And what we are putting our trust in, is his flesh, the human life of Jesus, given up on the cross for us all.
\nSo let us hear these amazing words of Jesus JOHN 6:35
\nHere is the promise we can all claim for ourselves JOHN 6:40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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