Joh 6:31-35 | JFB | STEP | 28-31. What shall we do ... the works of God-- such works as God will approve. Different answers may be given to such a question, according to the spirit which prompts the inquiry. (See ; ). Here our Lord, knowing whom He had to deal with, shapes His reply accordingly.

‏ John 6:31-35

28-31. What shall we do ... the works of God--such works as God will approve. Different answers may be given to such a question, according to the spirit which prompts the inquiry. (See Ho 6:6-8; Lu 3:12-14). Here our Lord, knowing whom He had to deal with, shapes His reply accordingly.

32-33. Moses gave you not, &c.--"It was not Moses that gave you the manna, and even it was but from the lower heavens; 'but My Father giveth you the true bread,' and that 'from heaven.'"

34. Lord, evermore give us this bread--speaking now with a certain reverence (as at Joh 6:25), the perpetuity of the manna floating perhaps in their minds, and much like the Samaritan woman, when her eyes were but half opened, "Sir, give Me this water," &c. (Joh 4:15).

35. I am the bread of life--Henceforth the discourse is all in the first person, "I," "Me," which occur in one form or other, as Stier reckons, thirty-five times.

he that cometh to me--to obtain what the soul craves, and as the only all-sufficient and ordained source of supply.

hunger ... thirst--shall have conscious and abiding satisfaction.