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JOHN 6:58 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 6:57John 6:59
“This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”
'This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.' — the final summary contrasts manna (sustaining life but not preventing death) with Jesus (sustaining eternal life). The verb live forever (zese eis ton aiona) expresses the unending quality of this life.

Church Fathers on John 6:58

and now to show the great difference between bodily meat and drink, and the spiritual mystery of His body and blood, Ho adds, For My flesh its meat indeed, and My blood its drink indeed.

Bede · 8th century · He had said above, Whoso eats My flesh and drinks My blood, has eternal life

i.e. this is no enigma, or parable, but you must really eat the body of Christ; or He means to say that the true meat was He who saved the soul.

Chrysostom · 4th century

Whereas men desire meat and drink to satisfy hunger and thirst, this effect is only really produced by that meat and drink, which makes the receivers of it immortal and incorruptible; i.e. the society of Saints, where is peace and unity, full and perfect. On which account our Lord has chosen for the types of His body and blood, things which become one out of many. Bread is a quantity of grains united into one mass, wine a quantity of grapes squeezed together. Then He explains…

Augustine · 4th century · Or thus
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