Bread of life

“Jesus said to them, “I am the Bread of Life. Come every day to me and you will never be hungry. Believe in me and you will never be thirsty.”John‬ ‭6‬:‭35‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Jesus is talking to the crowd who followed Him after He fed them through a miracle. He fed 5,000 people with 5 barley loaves and two fish. Jesus steps up His revelation by telling them He is the bread that f life. He tells them in verse 51:

“I alone am this living Bread that has come to you from heaven. Eat this Bread and you will live forever. The living Bread I give you is my body, which I will offer as a sacrifice so that all may live.”John‬ ‭6‬:‭51‬ ‭TPT‬‬

The people were thinking naturally. They could not fathom how Jesus’ body could be bread, and how could they eat Him every day. 

Yet, we know Jesus also is called the ‘word of God’. John refers to this in chapter 1:1,2:

“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God.”John‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Jesus offended these natural thinkers by telling them:

 “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day.”John‬ ‭6‬:‭53‬-‭54‬ ‭NLT‬‬

For us New Testament believers we know He was not telling the people they must be cannibals, but rather that ‘all of Him’ represented the food from heaven, He was the living word of God, He embodied all there was need for eternal life, He was enough.

 When Jesus asks the twelve disciples if they would also leave, Peter declares: ‘where would we go? You have the words of eternal life! We have come to believe and know Hou are the Holy One of God!’(v 68,69)

Jesus is all we need! Amen!