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Joh 6:26. Λέγω, I say) The people themselves did not know their own true character so well as Jesus now exhibits it to them. Up to this time Jesus had collected mere hearers; now, in the midst of the time of His ministry, He begins to make a selection, by means of His figurative discourse concerning His passion, and the benefit to be derived from it through faith.-οὐκ ὅτι εἴδετε σημεῖα, not because ye saw the miracles) They had not as yet been led by the miracles to faith: Joh 6:29, etc.: otherwise faith, and not the desire of food, would have prompted them to seek Jesus.-σημεῖα, miracles) in the case of the sick, as also in the case of the loaves: Joh 6:2; Joh 6:14, “A great multitude followed Him, because they saw His miracles on them that were diseased;-Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did-(in feeding the 5000)-they said, This is of a truth that prophet.”-ἐφάγετε, ye did eat) The people, anxious about food, were wishing that they might daily receive it in the same way; and they were now no longer, as before, Joh 6:2, attracted to Him by the mere sight of His miracles, but rather by the desire of being fed. Comp. Mat 14:20, note [the fragments were on that occasion gathered up for future use as food, not, as the manna, merely for a memorial: the people were not to carry any away as a curiosity]. The barley harvest was immediately after the Passover; and immediately before the harvest, the price of provisions is usually dearer. Therefore, at that season of the year, His benefit conferred on the five thousand had been especially appropriate.