The Gospel According to John Chapter 6

[뉴맨]

The Gospel According to John Chapter 6

The Bible Text from https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.6.NIV

The True Faith for the True Food from God

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias). (West of the lake), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. (The mass was following Jesus because of His signs.)

3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. (They settled on a mountainside.)

4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near. (The season of the year, the early spring.)

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” (Eating is the basic of life and also an opportunity for Jesus to reveal Himself.)

6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. (Jesus was going to take chance to teach important things.)

7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!” (Philip talked about impossibility of possibility; If we had, but not able.)

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up,

9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” (Andrew brought a boy's lunch box, five small barley loaves and two small fish, which was available but not able to feed the crowd.)

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there, maybe around 2000 people total). (The crowd were arranged properly for the food distribution. The Order.)

11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. (Jesus blessed the food and distributed the food. He defied a common physics, feeding the mass with a small lunch box. But it had happened to the Israelites in the wilderness with Manna.)

12 When they had all had enough to eat, (All were fed.) he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. (No waste. Where the left over went?)

14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” (The people who were fed acknowledged Jesus as the promised Prophet, the Messiah.)

15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. (Even they wanted to make Jesus King, which indicates that they thought that Jesus should be better to be their king of this world. So, Jesus left leaving them behind.)

Jesus Walks on the Water

16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. (NE. 11 miles) By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. (Jesus was left alone behind. Why?)

18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. (Strong wind was a common weather pattern there due to the stiff land scape.)

19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. (While the disciples struggling on the boat with the rough wave, Jesus was walking toward them on the water, conquering the physics of nature, so the disciples were scared thinking he was a ghost.)

20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” (Jesus comforted them. So they witnessed another identity of Jesus, who defies common physics.)

21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading. (When they had Jesus in the boat, they reached to the destined shore.)

22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake (Tiberias) realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. (The next morning, the people puzzled of how Jesus disappeared without a boat.)

23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. (Some, maybe fishing boats came to the shore in the morning without a trace of Jesus.)

24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. (The crowd sailed to Capernaum pursuing Jesus.)

Jesus the Bread of Life

25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” (They wondered how Jesus came without a boat. He had walked on the water, but they didn't know.)

26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs (signs of divinity) I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. (They wanted to have more, or permanent free meals rather than the true teachings of Jesus. They pursued after the shadow but not the reality.)

27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” (Jesus urged them to pursue something for the eternal life rather than temporary satisfaction.)

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” (They asked what they have to do for God's reward.)

29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (Believe- know, trust, accept, learn, and follow me and my way.)

30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? (What is the credential of Jesus as the Messiah?)

31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” (Jesus brought them to the history. The Israelites were fed with manna in the wilderness. It was the sign of God who cared of His people. So the feeding five thousand men was the sign of the divine intervention of God.)

34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” (The crowd didn't understand what Jesus meant because they were blinded by their immediate worldly need.)

35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (Jesus is the bread of life, the One whom we have to believe in.)

36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. (The crowd had seen but not believed. 1:5 9-11)

37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. (But those whom given by the Father God will come to the faith in Jesus. 1:12-13)

38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. (Jesus came from heaven, knows heaven things, and does God's will. Mt. 6:10)

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. (The committed never will be lost. Eze. 34:11-12)

40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” (God wants all to be saved by the grace of Jesus. Eph. 2:8-9)

41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” (The Jews could not accept the teachings of Jesus because of their preconception. Knowledge must be renewed as revelation grows.)

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.

44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. (No one can save self unless being led by God.)

45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ (Everyone will hear the truth. Isa. 54:13) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. (Only those who accept the truth will be saved. Hear who has ear to hear.)

46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. (Jesus is the only enough representation of God. Seeing Jesus is the seeing God. Heb. 1:1-3)

47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. (This life on earth is a part of the life in eternity of the Kingdom of God. We live moment by moment, but in eternity. Jesus shows the way, the truth, and the life. 14:6)

48 I am the bread of life. (Jesus is the One whom had been represented in the wilderness with manna, and who fed the large crowd with a small lunch box.)

49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. (The worldly food which the crowd wanted is a very temporary.)

50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (Jesus, who's going to give His flesh as an atonement for our sin is the ultimate answer of our life and death.)

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” (The Jews couldn't understand the teaching of Jesus because they were bounded in this world.)

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. (The sacrificial death of Jesus is the only way for eternal life in the Kingdom of God; Believe it or Not.)

54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. (The bread and blood of Jesus symbolize His death. His body must be broken, and blood shedded for our redemption.)

57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. (Jesus is the only life-giving mediator between God and us.)

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” (Those who had eaten manna perished but there is the eternal life in the Kingdom of God through the faith in Jesus.)

59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. (This disclosure happened in the Capernaum synagogue where the Jewish regular meeting used to be held.)

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples (followers) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” (The teaching was hard for some disciples who didn't open their mind to Him. Rev. 3:20)

61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? (Even the basic disclosure of Jesus was hard to them.)

62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! (If they see Jesus' ascension, which will be the evidence of his heavenly origin, what will happen?)

63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. (The knowledge of the Spirit gives life but the desire of the flesh achieve nothing.)

64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. (Jesus knew that many people wouldn't believe in him, and that someone would betray him. Many of them will be disqualified. The faith and salvation are for those few committed. Lk. 18:8)

65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” (We need the wisdom from God to be able to understand the truth. Jam. 1:5)

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. (Sorry but many followers left Jesus due to their foolishness.)

67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. (What about the Twelve?)

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” (The committed Twelve confessed their faith in Jesus and kept staying with Jesus.)

70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) (One of the committed, chosen Twelve, however, the son of Simon Iscariot, will betray Jesus.)