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Joh 6:27. Ἐργάζεσθε, [tractate] trade in) So τὴν θάλασσαν ἐργάζεσθαι, Rev 18:17. Devote your exertions [labour for, Engl. Vers.], saith He, to the everlasting food: just as you are now seeking Me with great earnestness for the sake of bread. Jesus gives no reply to the When? of the Jews [Joh 6:25, When earnest Thou hither?]: and so often in His discourses He has regard rather to those things which the series of circumstances and the state of souls require, than to the unseasonable interruptions of the speakers.-μή, not) Very similar things are opposed to one another: ch. Joh 4:10, [Jesus to the woman of Samaria] “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.”-τὴν ἀπολλυμένην, that perisheth) Joh 6:12, “Gather up the fragments-that nothing be lost; ἀπόληται:” 1Co 6:13, “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them.” The food of the body perisheth; therefore it confers not immortality.-ἥν) βρῶσιν. Ye ought not, saith He, ask from Me nutriment for the body, but for the soul. First it is set before us as food [meat], Joh 6:27; next as bread, Joh 6:32, “The true bread from heaven;” then in express terms, the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, Joh 6:51; Joh 6:53, “The bread that [will give, is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world:-Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.”-δώσει, will give) Joh 6:51.-γάρ, for) This Ætiology [enunciating not merely the proposition, but also, at the same time, the reason and cause of it] appertains to the μένουσαν, which endureth.-ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ Θεός, God the Father) Therefore Jesus Christ is the Son of God.-ἐσφράλισεν, hath sealed) Hath pointed out and distinguished Him by this very miracle, Joh 6:14 [as the anointed Prophet: “Those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world”]; as also by His whole testimony, which in its turn needed to be sealed by the faith of the hearers: Joh 6:29, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent;” ch. Joh 3:33, “He that hath received His testimony hath set to His seal that God is true.” By a seal, that which is genuine is stamped with commendation, and all that is not genuine is excluded.