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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As the living Father hath sent me,.... Into the world, to be the Saviour of it; not by local motion, but by assumption of human nature; and not against his will, or as having superiority over him; but by joint consent and agreement: the first person in the Godhead is here styled, "the living Father"; not because he is the Father of spirits, of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught it in Capernaum.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which camte down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. This is spiritual feeding upon spiritual truth.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This is that bread which came down from heaven,.... That true bread, the bread of God, the bread of life, living bread; meaning himself, as in John 6:32; not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: this is bread of a quite different nature from that; that was only typical bread, this true; that was the bread of angels, but this is the bread...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it. It was not merely the blinded...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things said he in the synagogue,.... Openly and publicly, in the place of divine worship, where the Jews resorted for that purpose: as he taught in Capernaum; his own city, and where there was a synagogue, into which he often went and taught his doctrines, and wrought miracles; see Matthew 3:13.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? Preachers must not be astonished if they stagger their hearers when they proclaim the truth, they must not retract what they have said, nor tone it down, because so-and-so is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? Let...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Many therefore of his disciples,.... Not of the twelve, nor of the seventy, but of the multitude of the disciples, who followed him from place to place, attended on his ministry, and might be baptized in his name; see John 4:1; when they had heard [this]; that his flesh and blood were truly and really meat and drink, and that none had life in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When Jesus knew in himself,.... And of himself, without any intelligence from others, or hearing what was said, being the omniscient God: that his disciples murmured at it; at the doctrine he had delivered, looking upon it as absurd, incredible, and contrary to sense and reason: he said unto them, does this offend you? or trouble you? cannot you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; — The inward, Spiritual meaning gives life to the Word, and life to us also: “It is the spirit that quickeneth;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? What will you say then?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? He that is offended at any gospel truth may expect to be still more offended, for there are higher and deeper doctrines than Jesus had then uttered. If you stagger under the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[What] and if ye shall see the son of man,.... Meaning himself then in a state of humiliation, and was taken for a mere man, though the true Messiah, and Son of God: ascend up where he was before? for Christ was, he existed before his incarnation, and he was in heaven before; not in his human nature, but as the word and Son of God: and he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
It is the Spirit that quickeneth,.... It is the spirit of man that quickens him; or which being breathed into him, he becomes a living soul; for the body, without the spirit, is dead; it is a lifeless lump: and it is the Spirit of God that quickens dead sinners, by entering into them as the spirit of life, and causing them to live: and it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. They are not carnal; they are not gross they have in them an inner sense which is full of life and spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. “You are not to take them as if they were flesh, and understand them carnally. They do but embody my words do but embody a living soul of meaning, which it will be for you to receive if you are indeed quickened, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Do not look at them as dead words regard them as full of life, and understand them in their living spiritual sense.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: That is to say, it is the meaning of Christ’s words that gives life, not the words themselves; and if we stumble at the letter, and begin to ask, “How can we eat the flesh of Christ?” taking that expression literally, it will kill us. We need to get into the spirit of what he says, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. Could that be truly said of any here? “There are some of you that believe not.” If so, you know what becomes of unbelievers; you certainly cannot attain the blessings promised to faith. May God grant that, ere this day is quite over,...