Jesus has already performed many miraculous signs. Feeding five thousand with five loaves and two fish already proves he is the Messiah. Yet, the crowd demanded Jesus give more free food, just as Moses had given manna from heaven for forty years in the wilderness. Jesus corrected them; it was not Moses, but God who gave Israel manna. Moreover, manna was not true bread that gives eternal life. The Israelites ate manna and died in the wilderness. God who had given manna has now given the true bread from heaven, Jesus Christ.

Jesus declared himself to be "the bread of life" (35). Just as physical bread sustains our physical life, Jesus sustains our spiritual life and satisfies our heart and soul. Whoever comes to Christ and believes in him will have the bread of life that gives eternal life. People without Christ have spiritual hunger in their soul. It is hunger for God's love and for eternal life. Jesus the bread from heaven satisfies spiritual hunger and thirst. God sent his Son to save all God's chosen people. Christ will lose none of them and will give them the resurrection body and eternal life on the last day.


Application: Lord, thank you for saving us by your grace and by your faithful shepherding. Save many lost souls so that they too may have eternal life.
One Word: Eat the bread of life each day