Matthew 14:
34-36; Mark 6: 52-56; John 6: 22-71
"It is
the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak
unto you are spirit and life. " John 6: 63
Jesus, after
reaching out and save Peter from drowning, enters, he and Peter on the boat,
head towards Gennesaret. Arriving there the locals and surrounding flock to for
healing and deliverance from their sufferings. The Master pays attention to
everyone and some just by touching his clothes are cured. But others come there
and ask him when he had arrived. "Rabbi, when did you get here?" John
6: 25 For they saw only the disciples get into the boat, without the Master and
find it there, Jesus knowing their heart and intent of the question, answered
them, "Verily, I tell you truly seek me, not you saw the signs, but
because you ate the bread and you saciastes. Do not work for food that spoils,
but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto
you; this because the Father, God the sealed ". John 6: 26-27 There is in
most people think only of the material well-being, healing the diseases of the
body, ridding the sufferings of the soul, material prosperity, a good job, a
nice car, home, forget the spiritual side. The Jews sought the Lord that he
would deliver them from the evils and misfortunes of life, hunger and expected
deliverance from Roman captivity, had only a vision of the problems surrounding
them in the world in which they lived. Jesus from the beginning of his ministry
shows them the spiritual meaning of the kingdom of God, his miracles, signs and
wonders leads them to believe in a spiritual God, but in their view, due to the
interpretation of the scribes and Pharisees of the Mosaic law, shows them the
meaning of the Messiah as the restorer of the Jewish kingdom likeness of King
David, a human kingdom, land. The law subjected the man to the works, which
they expiated their sins. They ask the Master to do the works pleasing to God.
"What we do to do the works of God?" John 6: 28 Jesus answered them
that the works do not save, but who believes in the Son of God will be saved.
"The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." John 6:
29 The Apostle Paul mentions in Galatians justification by faith. "Knowing
that a man is not justified by works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, might be justified by faith in Christ
and not by observing the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified. " Gal. 2: 16 They, the Jews, asking him what the sign to show
them his divine power to what they might believe in him, if Moses had given
them manna from heaven, Jesus replies by telling them that the manna was not
Moses you gave them, but God has given them to live during the pilgrimage and
that manna was not eternal, but he would, if believed, the eternal bread
himself to them. "I am the bread of life; He who comes to me shall not
hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. " John 6: 35
affirms his divinity and gives the true meaning of his spiritual ministry,
telling them to have come from the Father "I came down from heaven, not to
do mine own will, but the will of him who sent me." John 6: 38 This
compares to manna, that those who ate it died, but those who eat of their
flesh, believe in him in spirit, hath everlasting life. "Verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am the bread of
life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the
bread which cometh down from heaven, that one may eat it and not die. "
John 6: 47-50
The Master
gives a play on words as believe and have faith in him, appropriating it
completely, in a figurative way of eating his flesh and drinking his blood.
Some believe he is speaking of the Lord's Supper, but that is not the meaning
of their words, but taken from a real life. In contrast to what the rabbis
quoted on the bread, the Torah, the law of Moses, thought gave life to his
followers. "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6: 54 eat the flesh and
drink his blood suggests full ownership of Jesus by faith, believing in his
human nature and his divinity, he is the man God, the God flesh and spirit.
Jews understand this meaning, but do not accept the divinity of Jesus. A man
came from a humble family flying-from heaven. "Murmured therefore it Jews,
because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. And they said, Is
not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How, then,
he says, came down from heaven "John 6: 41-42 And many who followed him
moved away from him, feeling frustrated in his thoughts said:" This is an
hard saying; Who can hear "John 6: 60 They were only twelve, and he asks
them if they also wish to get away from him. "Will ye also go away? Said
to him, Simon Peter: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. " John 6: 67-69 They stood beside the Master, these words were
not spoken in just a moment or impulse, but the total reality of life as
experienced by later follow the Master and some were killed. But among them was
one who would betray him, and Jesus knew it. Those who come to Christ with
devotion are brought to him by God and receive the seal of the Spirit of God,
have eternal life and be resurrected on the last day. "For the will of him
that sent me is this, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him,
may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. " John 6: 40
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