Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of John 6:50
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
50. that a man may eat ] S. John’s favourite form of expression again, indicating the Divine intention: comp. Joh 6:29, Joh 6:34, Joh 8:56, &c. ‘Of this purpose is the Bread which cometh down from heaven; in order that a man may eat thereof and so not die.’ Comp. 1Jn 5:3.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 50. This is the bread, &c.] I am come for this very purpose, that men may believe in me, and have eternal life.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
But I am that bread of life, who came out of the highest heavens, from the bosom of my Father; that bread, which if a man eateth thereof, he shall never die eternally. Eating Christ in this text signifieth no more than believing in him, so often before mentioned under the notion of coming to him, believing in him, &c. And believing is fitly expressed by this notion of eating; because as eating is the application of meat to our stomachs, for the sustenance of our bodily life; so believing is the application of Christ to the soul, for the beginning and increase of spiritual life, and at last obtaining life eternal.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
47-51. He that believeth,c.(See on Joh 3:36 Joh5:24).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,…. Namely, that of which he had spoken Joh 6:32, meaning himself:
that a man may eat thereof, and not die; for this heavenly bread is soul quickening, soul strengthening, and soul satisfying food; nor can there be any want where this is: eating of it is not to be understood corporeally, as these Capernaites took it; nor sacramentally, as if it was confined to the ordinance of the Lord’s supper, which was not, as yet, instituted; but more largely of eating and feeding upon Christ spiritually by faith: he is, by the believer, to be fed upon wholly, and only; all of him, and none but him, and that daily; for there is the same need of daily bread for our souls, as for our bodies; and also largely and freely, as such may do; and likewise joyfully, with gladness and singleness of heart: such as are Christ’s beloved, and his friends, “may” eat; they have liberty, a hearty welcome to eat; and so have everyone that have a will, an inclination, a desire to eat; and all overcomers, whom Christ makes more than conquerors, So 5:1 Re 2:7; which liberty is owing to Christ’s gracious invitation, and to his and the Father’s free gift; and to the openness and ease of access of all sensible sinners to him: and the consequence and effect of such eating is, that it secures from dying, not from a corporeal death, to which men are appointed, and saints themselves are subject; though it is indeed abolished by Christ as a penal evil; nor shall his people continue under the power of it, but shall rise again to everlasting life: but then they are, through eating this bread, secured from a spiritual death; for though there may be a decline, as to the exercise of grace, and a want of liveliness, and they may fear they are ready to die, and conclude they are free among the dead, and that their strength and hope are perished; yet he that lives and believes in Christ, the resurrection, and the life, shall never die; and such are also secure from an eternal death, on them the second death shall have no power, nor shall they ever be hurt by it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
That a man may eat thereof, and not die ( ). Purpose clause with and the second aorist active subjunctive of and . The wonder and the glory of it all, but quite beyond the insight of this motley crowd.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,” (houtos estin ho artos ho ek ouranou katabainon) “This is the bread coming down out of and away from heaven,” the “bread of life,” the “bread from heaven,” the “bread of God,” and the living bread,” Joh 6:31-33; Joh 6:35; Joh 6:51.
2) “That a man may eat thereof,” (hina tis eks autou phage) “In order that anyone may eat of it,” universally, who wills or chooses to do so, Isa 55:1-3.
3) “And not die.” (kai me apothane) “And he may not die,” at all, “taste of death,” or “he will never die,” Joh 6:50-51; Joh 8:51; Joh 11:26.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
50. Not die The old manna was but for the body, and gave but a temporal life, and its eaters are dead; but this new manna is for the soul, and it gives an eternal life. The Romish Church, indeed, (like the Jews in Joh 6:52,) holds that this flesh and blood of Christ are literal and bodily, and to be eaten and drank with the bodily mouth. But Joh 6:35 shows that the hunger and thirst to be assuaged by this eating and drinking are to be assuaged by coming to and believing in Christ. The act of eating is, therefore, the act of faith by which the soul appropriates Christ as the life within. Such is plainly also the drinking of Joh 4:14. If the drinking Christ’s blood is the drinking the sacramental cup, and is necessary to salvation, then the Romish laity cannot be saved, for they are not allowed to drink of the sacramental cup.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Ver. 50. This is the bread ] , pointing to himself. So David, “this poor man” (meaning himself) “cried, and the Lord heard him,” &c.,Psa 34:6Psa 34:6 . So Hic, sat lucis, let there be light here, said Oecolampadius on his death bed, laying his hand on his breast.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a man = any one: i.e. without distinction.
thereof = of (Greek. ek. App-104.) it.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Joh 6:50. , this) namely, bread.-, a man) any one who pleases.- , and may not die) namely, in a spiritual sense, as this food refers to spiritual life: there being attached thereto also the resurrection of the body.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
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Joh 6:50
This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.-Those who partook of the true bread of heaven should never die.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
the bread: Joh 6:33, Joh 6:42, Joh 6:51, Joh 3:13
that: Joh 6:58, Joh 8:51, Joh 11:25, Joh 11:26, Rom 8:10
Reciprocal: Num 6:15 – a basket Psa 133:3 – even life Mat 22:4 – Behold Luk 22:16 – until Joh 6:32 – the true Rom 5:11 – by whom Rom 6:23 – but the Rom 10:6 – to bring Eph 5:29 – nourisheth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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The pronoun this means the kind of bread Jesus was talking about. Not die is said in the same sense as never ‘hunger in verse 35.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Joh 6:50. This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that any one may eat thereof, and not die. The bread that cometh down out of heaven (repeated from Joh 6:33) is of such a nature, and has such an object, that one may eat of it and not die. We are not to press too much our Lords use of one or any one in this verse; but we may at least say that His studious avoidance of every word of limitation points once more to the unbounded offer of life, the offer to the world (Joh 6:33). When Joh 6:49-50 are compared, a difficulty presents itself. It may be said that the antithesis is not complete, for is not death used in two different senses? The fathers died in the wilderness: he that eateth of the true bread shall not die. There is exactly the same twofold use of the word in chap. Joh 11:26 (see the note on that verse). It is sufficient here to say that in neither verse is the meaning as simple as the objection supposes. In Joh 6:49 we must certainly recognise a partial reference to death as a punishment of sin, and by consequence to that moral death which even in this world must ever accompany sin. In Joh 6:50 again physical death may seem to be excluded, but we shall see that John elsewhere regards the believer as freed (in a certain sense) even from this, so entirely has death for him changed its character,so complete is the deliverance granted by his Lord.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Ver. 50. Here is the bread which will truly accomplish the result that you desire.
The , in order that, might depend on , which comes down, but it is better to make it depend on the principal idea: It is here… in order that one may eat of it and not die, for: in order that if one…he may not die. It is still the Hebrew paratactic construction. To perform the first of these acts is ipso facto to realize the second. Several commentators take the word die, in Joh 6:50, in the moral sense of perdition. But the preceding antithesis, the death of the Jews in the wilderness, does not allow this explanation. Jesus here and elsewhere, denies even physical death for the believer (comp. Joh 8:51); which He of course does not mean in the absolute sense in which it would become an absurdity (see Keil who makes the idea of the resurrection, Joh 6:40, an objection against me), but in the sense that what properly constitutes death in what we call by that namethe total failing of the physical and moral being, does not take place at the time when his brethren see him die. Morally and physically, Jesus remains his life, even at that moment, and, by His personal communion with him, takes away the death of death.
Fuente: Godet Commentary (Luke, John, Romans and 1 Corinthians)
6:50 {p} This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
(p) He refers to himself when he speaks these words.