John 6

John 6:1

WEnt over,] one bay of the lake long wayes, and not the whole breadth of the lake The Sea,] Namely the lake of Genezareth.

John 6:4

The Passeover,] this seemes to bee set down not only to shew the circumstance of the time: but also to shew that the Lord did thereupon take an occasion to speake, of the spirituall eang of the true Lambe, figured by the Paschall Lambe, to which end all this discourse and preaching is referred.

John 6:6

To prove him,] whither he had any lively feeling and beliefe of his divine power, and any motion to desire the assistance of it in a time of neede.

John 6:21

Immediately,] Namely by miracle: the Lord having appeased the wind, and driving the ship to land.

John 6:22

When the people,] the meaning is, the people seeing the Apostles goe away alone: beleeved that Christ had sent them about some businesse: but that hee himselfe would stay there, being there was never another veslell there to carry him away. Wherupon the next morning finding themselves frustrate of their opinions they went after Iesus, having gotten some boates which were come from Tiberia.

John 6:26

Not because,] notbeing moved by a lively feeling of my divine power, which appeares in my workes: to bee thereby brought to the obedience of faith, but only drawne by a desire of getting some benefit, and bodily profit, as it I should feed you all without any labour or paines taking.

John 6:27

For that meat,] namely, for the doctrine of the Gospell, and for Christ himselfe who is proposed in it; and which is not bodily food that perisheth it selfe, and cannot keepe the body from perishing: but the food of the soule to everlasting life.Sealed,] that is to say, expresly appointed, as by a character of formall propriety: and made him fitting for it through the fuluesse of the gifts of the Spirit, which is Gods seale.

John 6:28

What shall we doe,] what order hath God established for the gaining of this spirituall food? as he hath appointed bodily labour for to gaine our bread for bodily food.

John 6:30

What signe,] what solemne and noted miracle from heaven doest thou shew us; whereby 〈◊〉 may be induced to follow thee? As by Moses his ministery, Manna was given the people. See upon Matthew 16:1. Mark 8:11.

John 6:32

Bread from heaven,] namely the true food of the soule, which comes net out of the aire as Manna did; but from the heaven of glory as I did, abasing my selfe to farre as to take humane flesh upon me for the worlds salvation. See Iohn 3. 13

John 6:34

Give us,] a request made out of ignorance, as Iohn 4. 15

John 6:35

I am,] that is to say, in me, receaved and applied, and ingrafted in the soule by a lively faith, remaines the power to quicken the soule, which is separated from God; who is the spring of life, and is dead in sinne, and to preserve it allve, by a continuall communication and influence of Gods grace Shall never hunger,] see upon Iohn 4 14.

John 6:36

Beleeve not,] and therefore cannot participate of this benefit of life.

John 6:37

All that,] all my fathers elect which he hath given me to save, and to be mine as members of my body, those being drawne by the power of my Spirit, do come and joyne themselves with me by a lively faith, and I lovingly entertaine them, and doe keepe them safe.

John 6:39

I should lose,] that I should give to all his elect true everlasting salvation, the perfection of which shall be at the blessed resurrection.

John 6:40

And this,] as he hath appointed me to be a Soviour, so he hath appointed faith to be a means to receive me to salvation and life Which seeth,] that is to say is enlightned by his knowledge.

John 6:44

No man,] none ought to marvaile that you cannot comprehend these things, nor joyne your selves to me by faith for to enjoy them: for it is a supernaturall motion of Gods Spirit, which you have not Draw him,] move him by his Almighty power, to unite himselfe to mee by faith against the inclination of his owne corrupt nature. See Son 1:4. Iohn 12. 32 And I,] that is to say all those that come to me, the good they finde thereby, is the spirituall life, the accomplishment of which shall bee life overlasting, by meanes of the blessed Resurrection.

John 6:45

In the Prophets,] in that volume wherein all their prophecies are contained.All,] not all and every particular person: as it appeares by verse 44. and 65. but all the elect and children of God That hath heard,] in his Church, by his word And hath learned,] that is to say, hath receaved a lively impression of this truth by vertue of the Holy Ghost which engendereth faith, Iohn 14. 26. and 16. 13. 1 Thes. 4. 9. 1 Iohn 2. 20, 27.

John 6:46

Not that,] that is to say, when I speake of hearing the father, it is not by reason that any one can have accesse to him or communication of seeing or hearing him immediately without me: The Fathers word is that which I propound in his name, and from him, Ioh. 149 He which is,] Namely I my selfe, who proceeded from him from everlasting as his proper Son, and also have by him been appointed to be the Saviour of the world.

John 6:49

Are dead,] where by it appeares that that foode, though it came out of the ayre, and was puter then any other food: yet it was corruptible in it selfe and could not keepe the body from death, whereas the foode which I present unto you saves the soule from spirituall death, and body and soule both from everlasting death.

John 6:50

This is,] Namely this which I propound to you in myselfe.

John 6:51

The living,] that hath life in it selfe, and giveth life to them which are partakers of it Is my flesh,] that is to say, I am the sacred ooe of the soule, for as much as in my humanity, I will offer my selfe to death as an expiatory sacrifice for the sins of the world and that it is eaten by the soule, that is to say, applyed to life by the actuall commemoration, lively faith, and inward apprehension, to be rejoyeed comforted, strengthened, and sustained in the fruition and feeling of Gods grace which is the spirituall life. And it seemes that Christ hath made use of these termes by reason that in every Religion, the eating of the flesh of the sacrifices, was a signe of the Communion to that Religion, 1 Corint. 10. 18. Hebrews 13:10. to shew that every Christian ought to have communion with Christ, to unite him and appropriate him to himselfe by a lively faith, which worketh with Christ, as eating doth upon flesh; and without that, Christ doth man no good, no more than meate which is not eaten nor concocted.

John 6:52

Strove,] either being not all of one opinion, as Iohn 7. 43. and 9. 16. or that in a tumultuous manner they contradicted the Lord.

John 6:53

And drinke,] this is added to teach us that wee ought to participate with Christ, wholly with all his merit, satisfaction, and expiation, made by the shedding of his bloud, as also for that purpose hee hath appointed the two signes in the Lords Supper.

John 6:55

Indeed,] according as spirituall things have their truth and reality as much, or more in their own kind then corporall ones have in theits. See Ioh. 1. 9 and 15. 1. Hebrews 8:2.

John 6:56

Dwelleth,] that is to say is inseparably united with me and I with him even as food is with him that eates it.

John 6:57

I live,] Namely as Son, by vertue of the eternall generation: and as Mediatour, by the communication and influence of the life, vertue, and Spirit of God. See Romans 6:4. 2 Corinthians 13:4 Shall live,] See Iohn 5. 26.

John 6:58

Not as,] the vertue of this my bread is not like that of Manna which could not save mens bodies from death.

John 6:60

Heare it,] that is to say beare it with patience and beleeve it, and receave it with docilitie.

John 6:62

Shall sec,] from whence you shall have greater cause to wonder, to thinke that you should bee fed by his flesh which is taken up into heaven: therefore because your senses may not transport you to incredulity, leave off all these carnall thoughts: and judge and understand these things spiritually, 1 Corinthians 2:14. and all occasion of stumbling shall bee taken away Aseend,] up into Heaven where the Son of God was before his incarnation in the residence of his glory: and from whence he descended not by change of place, but by manifestation, and by voluntary abasement of condition, taking upon him human flesh; and in it he forme of a servant.

John 6:63

The spirit,] doe not goodely stop at my materiall flesh, nor at the corporall manner of eating, which are things unprofitable for the soule but apprehend in my flesh that which is spirituall and quickning therein: namely that it is the flesh of the Sonne of the living God, and that in it he suffered death, expiated sinne, and fulfilled all righteousnesse: and besides that, the onely meanes to be partaker of it to everlasting life, is by the holy Ghost, who engenders true faith in mens hearts Are Spirit,] ought to be taken and understood spiritually, 1 Corinthians 2:14. and in this manner do bring salvation and life to beleevers, such as al men are not, & those that are so indeed, must acknowledge it to be Gods meer benefit.

John 6:66

Went back,] scandalized by reason of this doctrine which was so strange & incomprehensible.

John 6:68

Of eternall life,] which doe not onely propound and teach the way to obtaine it, but do likewise containe in them a secret seed of life, which is quickned and excited by the power of the Spirit.

John 6:70

A devill,] that is to say, is divelish in wickednesse, is wholly possessed and driven on by the evill spirit.