By Frank Tyler
I. Introduction
Most of us enjoy celebrating Father’s Day with special meals, cards, and remembrances. If earthly fathers bless their children, then how much more so our Heavenly Father! Today in order to celebrate Father’s Day, we will examine John chapter 6 and learn how the Lord Jesus honors His Father by extolling the Father’s work in salvation. [38]
II. The Setting
As Jesus and His disciples leave Judea for Galilee, a large multitude follows after them. Jesus miraculously feeds 5,000 men with their women and children. The men rightly conclude that He is the prophet like Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15-19). As they conspire to proclaim Him King of Israel, Jesus escapes to the mountains while His disciples depart by boat to Capernaum. The next morning, unable to find Jesus, many of the previous day’s multitude cross the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum.
III. The Work of God
Jesus rebukes His followers, Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him (John 6:27). Instead of rowing across the Sea of Galilee for another meal—labor in order to partake of the food that endures to everlasting life. He then seizes the opportunity to evangelize them by proclaiming the work of God in salvation and the promise of eternal life—the bread of life that endures to everlasting life.
6:28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” [39] (John 6:28-29; underlining added)
Having received the rebuke, the multitude now wishes towork the works of God in order to gain the food which endures to everlasting life (John 6:27). They think eternal life comes by doing good works—plural; Jesus corrects their misunderstanding with a play on words, this is the work of God —singular, but what does Jesus mean by the genitive construction, work of God?
Does He mean the work God requires man to do to receive eternal life (objective genitive), or the work of God, Himself, to give eternal life to man (subjective genitive)? [40] Moreover, a singular work may be understood in the collective sense also. For example, when an owner of a company asks his job foreman whether the work—singular—is finished, the foreman answers for the group of workers he leads in performing a collection of works or collective work. In this sense, the singular work stands for a collective; is the work of God a collective work?
If Jesus means the singular work man must do (objective genitive), then believing in Him (Jesus) whom He (the Father) sent must be the singular work man performs in order to receive eternal life. Is Jesus exhorting his audience to perform a good work by believing in Him?
When Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, He says: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water (John 4:10). Does the gift of God require a good work to receive it?[41] Years later, the Apostle Paul emphatically clarifies this very question for the Ephesians:
2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
2:9 not of works , lest anyone should boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9; underlining added)
Salvation is the gift of God; therefore, the use of the objective genitive (the work God requires of man to receive the gift of eternal life) would create a monumental contradiction between Jesus and His apostle to the Gentiles.
If instead, Jesus means the work of God or God’s work to gift man with eternal life (subjective genitive), then within His dialogue with the multitude, you and I ought to expect Jesus to identify a singular or collective work of God to give man eternal life.
IV. Jesus Extols and Honors the Father
The evidence reveals the singular work of God (John 6:29) encompassing a collection of works God the Father, actively engages or oversees to give eternal life to man. Indeed, our Lord and Savior identifies and specifically extols the Father for His work to save mankind throughout John chapter 6. It is the work of God the Father—literally, the Father’s work that they believe in Him whom He sent, His Son Jesus (see Appendix A).
Setting His Seal Upon Jesus
6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” (John 6:27; underlining added)
Although the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus will remain the ultimate and final seal upon our Lord, in John 6:27, Jesus uses the aorist verb tense indicating past action has set or more literally “has sealed” to refer to our Lord’s previous baptism by John the Baptist.
1:32 And John bore witness, saying, “ I (John the Baptist) saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He (the Holy Spirit) remained upon Him (Jesus) .
1:33 I did not know Him, butHe (the Father or His angel) who sent me (John the Baptist) to baptize with water said to me, “Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He (the Son of God) who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
1:34 And I (John the Baptist) have seen and testified that this is the Son of God .” (John 1:32-34; underlining added)
The seal that the Father set upon His Son through baptism is a unified collective or collaborative work involving Himself sending and instructing John the Baptist, the Holy Spirit descending and remaining, and His obedient servant John the Baptist baptizing and testifying.
Giving the True Bread from Heaven
6:32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
6:33 For the bread of God (the Father) is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” (John 6:32-33; underlining added)
The incarnation of Jesus ( He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.) reveals the collective nature of the singular work of the Father in giving His Son, the true bread from heaven. Luke records the dialogue between the angel Gabriel and Mary.
1:33 And He (Jesus) will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
1:34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God .”
(Luke 1:33-35; underlining added)
Gabriel announces that God the Father will give His Son to the world through the womb of Mary; literally, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest (God the Father) will overshadow you (Luke 1:35).
In like manner, God sent an angel to Joseph: But while he (Joseph) thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:20). Jesus’ miraculous entry into the world is the work of God the Father in giving His Son to the world; nonetheless, this one work represents a collective effort involving the angel Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father.
The bread of God is the true bread from heaven that My Father gives you. Jesus is the bread of God that the Father now offers freely to all who will believe in Him and His promise of life. Our Lord has already shared this same truth in John chapter 3 when he revealed to Nicodemus and his disciples the Father’s work in giving His Son using an example of Moses’ intercession on Israel’s behalf to deliver the children of Israel from deadly serpents.
3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
(John 3:14-17; underlining added)
Whether delivering Israel from hunger with manna (Exodus 16:4, 15) or from serpents with an image lifted up (Numbers 21:8-9), God responds to His children with loyal covenantal love or “chesed.” Likewise, in sending His Son into the world, the Father demonstrates “chesed” for all of mankind.
Again, you and I witness the work of the Father. In both instances, Moses intercedes, proclaims God’s deliverance, and leads His people in implementing Israel’s deliverance. Regarding the bread of God, Jesus reveals to the multitude that this work remains God the Father’s work, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven (John 6:32). Likewise, Jesus intercedes, performs miraculous signs, proclaims the promise of eternal life, and takes away the sins of the world on the cross, but salvation remains ultimately the work of the Father to whom Jesus, though fully God, submits as an obedient Son. It is the Father’s work to give His Son for the salvation of the world (John 3:17); to believe the Father is to believe in the Son He gives and His promise of eternal life. [42]
Giving or Entrusting Believers to Jesus
6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out .
6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
6:39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that ofall He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day .
(John 6:37-39; underlining added)
The Greek word for the work of giving used in these passage is δίδωσίν translated gives (third person singular, present active, indicative; verse 37) and δέδωκέν translated has given (third person singular, perfect active, indicative; verse 39). Within the immediate context, this giving is entrustment, that… I should lose nothing. According to Walter Bauer (BDAG), it is “to put something in the care of another, entrust… of persons… entrust someone to another’s care.” [43]
Later, just prior to the cross, Jesus reveals this great truth in His prayer to the Father.
17:9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
17:10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. (John 17:9-10; underlining added)
As you and I learn from Jesus, Himself, the Father entrusts His Son with nothing less than the eternal security of the believer; in turn, Jesus responds by praying to His Father to keep… those whom You have given Me (John 17:11).
17:11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
(John 17:11-12; underlining added, cf. John 10:28-30)
The magnificence of the Father’s collaborative work extends to the Holy Spirit who indwells and abides with all believers forever.
14:16 AndI will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. (John 14:16-17; underlining added)
Although, this is a collective or collaborative work involving the Son keeping and the Holy Spirit indwelling and abiding; as Jesus’ prayer (John 17:11-12) reveals, it remains ultimately the work of the Father who entrusts, leads, wills, and sends the Son and Holy Spirit.
Drawing Men to Salvation Through His Word
6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
6:45 It is written in the prophets,“And they shall all be taught by God.’ Thereforeeveryone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. (John 6:44-45; underlining added)
The Greek verb ἑλκύσῃ (third person singular, aorist, active, subjunctive) transliterated, “helkúo, is used by Jesus of drawing of souls unto Him (John 6:44; 12:32, to draw or induce to come).” [44] According to BDAG, this verb means “to draw a person in the direction of values for inner life, draw, attract.” [45] A vital aspect of the collective work of God the Father is drawing or attracting unbelievers to believe in His Son for everlasting life. The unbeliever does not work, but is drawn or attracted to the truth; in simple terms, God the Father persuades the unbeliever of the truth regarding Jesus and the promise of everlasting life. But, how does the Father persuade unbelievers?
Jesus begins His explanation with the phrase, It is written in the prophets; the Father uses His Word to draw unbelievers to faith in His Son, And they shall all be taught by God. In quoting Isaiah 45:13, Jesus identifies Himself and His promise of eternal life with Israel’s coming Messianic kingdom. After being miraculously fed, concluding that Jesus is the prophet like Moses, seeking to make Jesus the King of Israel, and finally pursuing Him across the Sea of Galilee, the multitude learns that they are delivered into the kingdom of Messiah not by their own efforts or works, but by God the Father and being persuaded of His Word to them. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me ; the unbeliever comes to Jesus by hearing and learning from His Word. Jesus uses the verb “come” as a simile for believe. Everyone who hears and learns from the Father and His Word comes to or believes in Jesus.[46] What does this persuasion look like?
In some measure, the multitude has already heard and learned from the Father. How else would they conclude that Jesus is the prophet like Moses other than through Moses’ exhortation in Deuteronomy 18:15-22?
18:21 And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’—
18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:21-22)
When Jesus openly gives thanks to the Father for the two small fish and five barley loaves and then miraculously feeds the five thousand men with women and children leaving twelve basketfuls of leftover loaves, He does not speak presumptuously. I (the Father) will raise up for them a Prophet like you (Moses) from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him (Deuteronomy 18:18). Jesus literally speaks the words of God the Father and the men, having witnessed the power of Jesus’ word, know conclusively that the Father has sent Him as the prophet like Moses. [47]
Likewise, Jesus challenges those, who have pursued Him across the Sea of Galilee, to believe in Him by focusing them on the Scriptures surrounding the Father’s miraculous and gracious provision of manna in the wilderness (Exodus 16:2-22).
16:12 “I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’ ” (Exodus 16:12)
As Jesus reasons from the Scriptures, He explicitly proclaims to His audience nothing less than the word or promise of eternal life time and again; this very promise the Father has reserved for the lips of Israel’s Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus is the bread of life who offers to all mankind His promise of eternal life; He is the very thing He offers, the bread of life.
John 6:27-29 —Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”… Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
John 6:32-33 —Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God isHe who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:35 —And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who (whoever)comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. [48]
John 6:40 —And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ”
John 6:47-48 —Most assuredly, I say to you, he who (whoever) believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 —Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This isthe bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 —I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
John 6:54 —Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:57-58 —As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who (whoever) feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who (whoever) eats this bread will live forever .” (underlining added)
Beginning with the miracles of healing Jesus performed on those who were diseased (John 6:2), the multitudes have already experienced and continue to experience the work of God the Father drawing them to Jesus and His promise of eternal life through the Word of God.
Very early on, the multitude requests, Lord, give us this bread always. (John 6:34). Note the urgency and persistence that permeates the remainder of Jesus’ dialogue with the multitudes as He proclaims the promise of eternal life time and again. These promises of life are themselves the word of God, the Father spoken through His Son (See Appendix C).
Sending and Sustaining Jesus and His Flock
6:57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. (John 6:57)
God the Father not only sends and sustains Jesus, but will send and sustain faithful believers even in the midst of the world’s persistent unbelief and persecution. In John chapter fifteen, our Lord more fully reveals this new and revolutionary relationship.
15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
15:8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. (John 15:7-8; underlining added)
As life flows out from the true vine to the branches and produces fruit or more life, God is glorified. For God the Father and His Son gifting eternal life to those who believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, and His promise of eternal life is not the end of the story: I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John10:10). Abundance of eternal life requires the believer learn to abide in or continue to feed on Christ… all of this, because the Father sends and sustains Jesus and His flock even in the midst of a world filled with unbelief and persecution.
V. Summary
The Apostle Matthew records an important conversation between Jesus and His disciples; Jesus asks, Who do you say that I (the Son of Man) am (Matthew 16:15)?
16:16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
16:17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar- Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven . (Matthew 16:16-17; underlining added)
God the Father revealed to Peter or persuaded him that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. How wonderfully Peter’s words echo the Apostle John’s purpose in writing:
20:30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;
20:31 but these are writtenthat you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name .
(John 20:30-31; underlining added)
When Jesus concludes His outreach to the multitude, He asks His disciples, Do you also want to go away (John 6:67)? Peter responds:
6:68 … “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life .
6:69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (John 6:68-69; underlining added)
Again, it is the singular, yet collective work of God the Father in all its many facets that has revealed or persuaded Peter and his fellow disciples that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God who has the words of eternal life, namely the promise of life in His name or eternal life.
VI. Conclusion
When the multitude pursued Jesus across the Sea of Galilee, He corrected their understanding of the sign He performed in blessing the fish and bread and then evangelized them by extolling the work of God the Father in: 1) setting His seal upon Jesus; 2) giving the true bread from heaven; 3) giving or entrusting believers to Jesus; 4) drawing men to salvation through His Word; and 5) sending and sustaining Jesus and His flock. These works and the collaboration they reveal are one collective work, the work of God—the work of a loving Father who intimately cares for Jesus, His flock, and the world. Today, as you and I celebrate our earthly fathers, remember that as children of our Heavenly Father, every day is Father’s Day. Like Jesus, let us boldly seize the opportunity to extol our Heavenly Father and enter into thework of God that others may believe in Him whom He sent. (John 6:29)!
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Appendix A: The Work of God—Subjective or Objective?
Sigurd Grindheim argues for the subjective genitive from a Calvinistic perspective: “The narrative reveals people’s inability to accept the gift that is given to them in the ministry of Jesus… When someone comes to Jesus, which is to say, when someone believes in Jesus, their coming is the work of the Father, who draws them. To receive the gift of Jesus is itself a gift, given by the Father.” Sigurd Grindheim,The Work of God or of Human Beings: A Note on John 6:29, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59/1 (2016), 63-66. http://www.sigurdgrindheim.com/John%206.pdf . Scripture does not support the doctrine of pre-faith regeneration. (see Frank Tyler, “Kaput: A Letter to Jen and Dale,” The True Vine Fellowship Journal 2019 (Sequim, WA: TTFV, 2019), 74-94.
Craig Keener takes the genitive as objective: “Here Jesus’ hearers, invited by him to work for eternal life (6:27), wish to know how Jesus defines ‘work’ (6:28). Jewish tradition never isolated works from faith. Yet in contrast to their tradition (in which faith was often one work among many), Jesus defines the work essential for eternal life as faith in him (6:29).” [Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of John: A Commentary, Volume One (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003), 677], underlining added. Like Keener, Leon Morris argues for the objective genitive: “God does not require that we pile up merits to obtain a heavenly credit. He requires that we trust him. The ‘work of God’ means that which God requires of us.” [Leon Morris, The Gospel of John, Revised Edition, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 1995), 319], underlining added. The argument for the objective genitive is an argument for an exception to Paul’s words, it is the gift of God, not of works (Ephesian 2:8-9; emphasis added).
The NET Bible renders John 6:29 as an objective genitive, This is the deed God requires–to believe in the one whom he sent . [The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press LLC., 2005 www. NETBIBLE.com), 2040.] The translators offer the following note on verse 27 relating verses 27 and 29: “Note the wordplay on ‘work’ here. This does not imply ‘working’ for salvation, since the ‘work’ is later explained (in John 6:29) as “to believe in the one whom he (the Father) sent ’” (underlining added). Indeed, wordplay; does Jesus refer to a work that is not a work? Again, you and I find exceptionalism; what would otherwise be clearly understood as a work (verse 27) is not a work because Jesus defines it as believing “in the one whom he sent” (verse 29).
Contextually, Jesus’ exhortation not to labor or work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life (verse 27), refers to the labor or work of the multitude in following Jesus across the sea to Capernaum. We might paraphrase, “Do not row across the Sea of Galilee for mere food which perishes, but for food which endures to everlasting life, my promise to you of eternal life.” When they respond to Jesus (verse 28), we might paraphrase: “We rowed across the sea for you—what other works would you have us do for the food which endures to everlasting life?” Jesus offers a two-fold correction (verse 29): “It is not your works, but God’s work that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Rowing across the sea to Capernaum in order to hear the gospel or good news of eternal life affords His followers the opportunity to believe, but is not itself a work that guarantees they will be persuaded by God of the good news—they may or may not believe His promise and receive the gift of eternal life.
Appendix B: Whoever and the Promise of Life in John
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Verse (Greek) |
Grammatical Construction |
English Translation |
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3:15—α πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται, ἀλλ᾿ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. |
ὁ (article) πιστεύων (present, active participle) |
Whoever believes, or he who believes |
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3:16—ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται, ἀλλ᾿ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. |
ὁ (article) πιστεύων (present, active participle) |
Whoever believes, or he who believes |
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3:18—Ο πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν οὐ κρίνεται· ὁ δὲ μὴ πιστεύων ἤδη κέκριται |
ὁ (article) πιστεύων (present, active participle) |
Whoever believes, or he who believes, or does not believe |
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3:36—Ο πιστεύων εἰς τὸν υἱὸν ἔχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον· ὁ δὲ ἀπειθω |
ὁ (article) πιστεύων (present, active participle) ἀπειθω (present active participle) |
Whoever believes, or he who believes, or disbelieves |
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4:13—ὁ πίνων |
ὁ (article) πίνων (present active participle) |
Whoever drinks, or he who drinks |
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4:14—ὃς δ᾿ ἂν πίῃ |
ὃς (pronoun whoever) δ᾿ ἂν πίῃ (conjunction/particle/ aorist active subjunctive) |
Whoever drinks |
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5:24—ὁ τὸν λόγον μου ἀκούων, καὶ πιστεύων |
ὁ (article) ἀκούων, (present active participle) πιστεύων (present active participle) |
Whoever hears and believes, or he who hears and believes |
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6:35—ὁ ἐρχόμενος |
ὁ (article) ἐρχόμενος (present middle participle) |
Whoever comes, or he who comes |
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6:47—ὁ πιστεύων |
ὁ (article) πιστεύων (present active participle) |
Whoever believes, or he who believes |
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6:54—Ο τρώγων |
Ο (article) τρώγων (present active participle) |
Whoever eats, or he who eats |
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6:56—Ο τρώγων μου τὴν σάρκα καὶ πίνων |
Ο (article) τρώγων (present active participle) πίνων (present active participle) |
Whoever eats and drinks, or he who eats and drinks |
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6:57—ὁ τρώγων |
ὁ (article) τρώγων (present active participle) |
Whoever eats, or he who eats |
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6:58—ὁ τρώγων |
ὁ (article) τρώγων (present active participle) |
Whoever eats, or he who eats |
Appendix C: Evangelizing in His Father’s Name
“ I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.” (Deut. 18:18)
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Verse |
Scripture |
Promise |
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6:27-29 |
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, whichthe Son of Man will give you, because God (the Father) has set His seal on Him.”… Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God (the Father), thatyou believe in Him whom He (the Father) sent.” |
The Son of Man will give you everlasting life; believe in Him whom He (the Father) sent. |
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6:32-33 |
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God (the Father) is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” |
He who comes down from heaven gives life to the world . |
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6:35 |
And Jesus said to them, “ I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. |
He who comes to Me shall never hunger ; he who believes in Me shall never thirst. |
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6:40 |
And this is the will of Him who sent Me (the Father), that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” |
Everyone who sees and believes in Me has everlasting life, and I will resurrect him. |
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6:47-48 |
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life . I am the bread of life. |
He who believes in Me has everlasting life . |
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6:49 |
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. |
I am the bread from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. |
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6:51 |
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever ; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” |
If anyone eats of the living bread, he will live forever . |
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6:54 |
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life , and I will raise him up at the last day. |
Whoever eat My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life and I will resurrect him. |
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6:57-58 |
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” |
He who feeds on Me will live ; he who eats the bread of life will live forever . |
The bold Calibri font indicates God the Father. Thebold Cambria font indicates the “I am” statement , “I am the bread of life.” Italics show direct quotations between the columns, “Scripture” and “Promise.”