50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
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For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
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.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
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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