33For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
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For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-59)Whether this conference was with the Capernaites, in whose synagogue Christ now was, or with those who came from the other side of the sea, is not certain nor material; however, it is an instance of Christ’s condescension that he gave them leave to ask him questions, and did not resent the interruption as an affront, no, not from his common hearers, though not his immediate followers. Those that w…
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