Robertson Word Pictures - John 6:51 - 6:51

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Robertson Word Pictures - John 6:51 - 6:51


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The living bread (ho artos ho zōn). “The bread the living.” Repetition of the claim in Joh 6:35, Joh 6:41, Joh 6:48, but with a slight change from zōēs to zōn (present active participle of zaō). It is alive and can give life. See Joh 4:10 for living water. In Rev 1:17 Jesus calls himself the Living One (ho zōn).

For ever (eis ton aiōna). Eternally like aiōnion with zōēn in Joh 6:47.

I shall give (egō dōsō). Emphasis on egō (I). Superior so to Moses.

Is my flesh (hē sarx mou estin). See note on Joh 1:14 for sarx the Incarnation. This new idea creates far more difficulty to the hearers who cannot grasp Christ’s idea of self-sacrifice.

For the life of the world (huper tēs tou kosmou zōēs). Over, in behalf of, huper means, and in some connexions instead of as in Joh 11:50. See Joh 1:30 for the Baptist’s picture of Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. See also Joh 3:17; Joh 4:42; 1Jo 3:16; Mat 20:28; Gal 3:13; 2Co 5:14.; Rom 5:8. Jesus has here presented to this Galilean multitude the central fact of his atoning death for the spiritual life of the world.