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Joh_6:58-59. A concluding summary, repeating the figure from which the whole discourse arose, Joh_6:32.
οὗτος ] of this nature, as explained in Joh_6:32-57. Comp. Joh_6:50; not: “this, which gives life to him who partakes of it” (Lücke); nor: “this, i.e. my flesh and blood” (De Wette); what follows requires in οὗτος the idea of modality.
οὐ καθὼς , κ . τ . λ .] It is the bread that came down from heaven, but not in the same way and manner that the fathers did eat heavenly bread. It is quite different in the case of this bread.
Joh_6:59 is simply an historical observation, without any further significance (Chrysostom: in order to impress us with the great guilt of the people of Capernaum). That ταῦτα means simply the discourse from Joh_6:41 onwards, and that what precedes down to Joh_6:40 was not spoken in the synagogue, but elsewhere, upon the first meeting with the people, Joh_6:24-25 (Ewald), would need to have been more distinctly indicated. Taking John’s words as they stand, ἐν συναγωγῇ , etc., is a more definite (according to Schenkel, indeed, mistaken) supplementary explanation of the vague πέραν τ . θαλάσσης of Joh_6:25.
ἐν συναγωγῇ , without the Art., as in Joh_18:20 : in synagogue; then follows the still more detailed designation of the locality, “teaching in Capernaum.”