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Jesus the Bread of Life
Commentary Sunday School

/ lily, verify, ! say unto you, Moses gave
| you not that bread from heavenI
The close meaning here is not per-
fectly clear. 1t may be that the en-
pha.Is is to be placed on Moses, who
was esteemed so highly by the Jews
as a prophet. 1t may be that the Lord
would insist that. although the miracle
was wrought through Moses as the
leader of the people of Israel, yet it
was a real work of God, as His own
work of feeding the thousands was.
With this Interpretation we are to un-
derstand that His own work was a
real work which was done because God
was with TIim-and therefore He
should be accepted as sufficiently Gre
dentialed. But my Father-This ut
terance must be carefully noted. Sure
ly Jesus is not here speaking like an
ordinary man. The Fatherhood VI
God though not much spoken of, even
among the Jews-was a belief in the
world. But no one ever spoke of the
F'atherhood Of God as did Jesus; and
when He says my Father" He does
80 in an unique and very exceptional
sense. From all eternity God was His
Father, and Himself was the Fathers
beloved and eternal and only begotten
Son-siveth tho true bread from hea-
| ven.
Then said they unto him, Lord,
evermore give Is this bread. Like the
Samaritan woman's petition: "Sir, give
/ me this water, that / thirst not, neither
como hither to draw" and with per-
haps no more sense of the real mean
ing which the Lord had in mind. After
all it is probable that the people were
after some material food, as Jesus in
the beginning of the interview init
mated. 1t would be nice thing FOR
some folks If living were provided
for them; and some would even make
a profession OF faith for "a living"
And Jesus said unto them, ! am the
bread of Iife;-Reminds US of what
He afterward said to Martha, 81 am
the resurrection and the life" Peo-
pie want Jesus to give them things:
but the Father hath given Him for all,
and He offers Himself to all, and Ill
we need is in Him. He that spared not
his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shall he not also with him
freely give us all things ?"-he that
eometh to me shall never hunger; and
he that believeth on me shall never
of life; that is. He is all we need; and
in order to realize on Him we must
come unto Him-that is, we must be-
lieve on Him-that is, we must by
faith embrace Him for all that we
need; and in the embrace of Christ
we shall be abundantly satisfied.
But | say unto you, That ye also
have seen mo, and believe not. Him
self is the greatest evidence that any
reasonable man ought to demand
They who behold the Lamb of God,
in that very beholding have sufficient
proof to justify them in Immediately
embracing Him.
All that the Father siveth me shall
como to ne;-At first view this looks
like a limited provision by the Father
of salvation, or at least limited pur-
pose of grace on the part of the
Father. But we must not limit the
Holy One OF Israel by our interpreta-
ton Of such passages The Father
loved the world and gave His Son for
the life of the world, and for the pur-
pose that whosJever will might be
saved. The word translated all" In
this verse is not In the masculine gen.
der, as If it referred to all persons;
but it is in the neuter gender and sin
gular number, and should be trans
lated the whole" as distinct from n
part THE whole wide world for
Jesus."-and him that eometh to mo
will in nowise cast out