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 # Joh 5:36
    \\I have greater testimony.\\ His works given of the Father,
 the Father's voice at baptism, and the Scriptures, which are the
 Father's word.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:38
    \\Have not his word abiding in you.\\ If they had they would
 believe upon him of whom that word did speak.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:39
    \\Search the scriptures.\\ Rather, as in the ASV, "Ye search
 the Scriptures" for eternal life. They were full of testimony
 about the coming Messiah.  Yet they turned away from him who is
 the way, the truth, and the life, as their Scriptures foretold.
 (PNT 346 edited)
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 # Joh 5:41
    \\I receive not honour from men.\\ This perhaps is a reply to
 some expression of disapproval on their part.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:42
    \\I know you.\\ He read their hearts.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:43
    \\If another shall come.\\ Some false Christ.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:44
    \\How can ye believe?\\ This verse shows that unbelief is due
 to the moral condition.
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 5:45-47
    \\There is [one] that accuseth you.\\ Moses, whose testimony
 they failed to accept. If they rejected the testimony of Moses,
 whom they professed to reverence, how could they believe him of
 whom Moses spoke?
 (PNT 346)
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 # Joh 6:1
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 6
  \\Christ, the Bread of Life\\

  The Five Thousand Fed
  The Multitude Seek to Make Jesus a King
  Jesus in the Mountain Alone
  The Disciples in the Storm
  Jesus Comes to Save in the Storm
  The Discourse in the Synagogue of Capernaum
  The Bread of Life

    \\After these things.\\ Not immediately after, but at a later
 period. It was probably nearly two years after the miracle at
 the pool of Bethesda.
    \\Jesus went over the sea of Galilee.\\ The scene of his
 ministry had changed from Jerusalem to the inland lake, or sea,
 around which he loved to linger. John cites the fact that it was
 also called the Sea of Tiberias. The latter name was then better
 known to Gentile readers.
 (PNT 347)
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 # Joh 6:2-13
    \\And a great multitude followed him.\\ The miracle of the
 Feeding of the Five Thousand, which follows, is the only miracle
 of the Saviour recorded by all the four Gospels. It is found in
 # Mt 14:13-21 Mr 6:30-44 Lu 9:10-17
    From a comparison of the accounts we learn that it took place
 after the death of John the Baptist, and hence as late as the
 third year of our Lord's ministry. We gain from John the
 information that it occurred near the passover, that is, in the
 early spring, about one year before the death of the Saviour.
 (PNT 347)
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 # Joh 6:12
    \\Gather the fragments that remain.\\ God does not allow
 wastefulness. Nature wastes nothing, not an ounce of matter. It
 is the waste of man that causes want. There is food enough for
 all. The waste of our nation is appalling;-- $800,000,000 per
 year in liquor; $200,000,000 on tobacco, besides all the
 extravagance of life. Christ bids us save; save the fragments.
 It is by wasting the fragments that the great wastes occurs.
 (PNT 347)
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 # Joh 6:14
    \\This is truly that prophet.\\ The long expected prophet,
 foretold in
 # De 18:15-16
 and referred to by the delegation sent to visit John the Baptist
 # 1:21
 This expected prophet was to be the king of Israel, the head of
 the kingdom of God on the earth. In other words, they said:
 "This is the Christ."
 (PNT 348)
03128-930416-1247-Joh6.15
 # Joh 6:15
    \\Perceived that they would come . . . to make him a king.\\
 Convinced that he was the Messiah, they sought to proclaim him king,
 to raise his standard, and establish his government \\by force.\\
 To escape their misguided intentions Jesus retired to a mountain
 alone. We learn elsewhere that he went to pray.
 # Mt 14:23 Mr 6:46
 (PNT 348 edited)
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 # Joh 6:16-21
    \\His disciples . . . entered into a boat.\\ For notes on
 this storm on the sea, and the Lord coming to his disciples in
 the storm, see
 # Mt 14:22-31
 Compare
 # Mr 6:46-54
 (PNT 348)
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 # Joh 6:20
    \\It is I; be not afraid.\\ This is the gospel message of
 peace, on the ground--the simple ground--"It is I." Christ's
 presence is peace to the soul. How often has he to speak this
 word of encouragement, even to his own! almost always when they
 are brought suddenly, or in an unusual way, face to face with
 him!
 (PNT 348)
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 # Joh 6:22
    \\The day following.\\ The day after the miracle, when five
 thousand were fed, and after the night storm on the sea of
 Galilee. "The people who had stood on the other side and been
 fed," remained awhile because there were no other vessels, and
 the more willingly, because they saw that Jesus had not gone
 with his disciples.
 (PNT 348-349)
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 # Joh 6:23
    \\Tiberias.\\ The largest city on the sea, built by Herod,
 and named after Tiberius Caesar. Herod Antipas usually occupied
 it as his capital.
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:24
    \\Came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.\\ As they did not see
 the Lord longer on the eastern shore, they sought him at the
 place where he made his home.
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:25
    \\Rabbi, when camest thou here?\\ He had not crossed the sea
 with his disciples; he had not come with them; how and when did
 he come? The day was the Sabbath, they had sought him in the
 synagogue, the question was asked there, and the discourse that
 follows was spoken there. See
 # 6:59
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:26
    \\Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles.\\ The Saviour
 reveals to them the true motives which induced them to seek him.
 Henry says: "Not because he taught them, but because he fed
 them; not for love, but for loaves. Thus do all who seek in
 religion secular advantages and follow Christ for the sake of
 secular preferments." People are more clamorous for earthly
 bread, than anxious concerning food for their souls.
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:27
    \\Labour not for the food which perisheth.\\ The Saviour does
 not prohibit labouring for food, but making the acquisition of
 food and worldly things the leading object of life. He means: Do
 not manifest a chief anxiety for bodily food, for the food that
 perishes with the using, but rather seek
    \\the food which endureth unto everlasting life.\\ The food
 of the soul; the Bread of Life.
    \\Him hath God the Father sealed.\\ Sealing is the mark of
 approval, of authority. A legal document must bear the seal of
 the State to give it force. The Father had commissioned,
 authorized, and stamped his seal upon the work of the Son. His
 miracles were a divine seal.
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:28
    \\What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?\\
 These seekers of Christ are eager for more information. He had
 bidden them work for the food of eternal life. What works then
 shall they do that they may please God and receive the divine
 gift?
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:29
    \\This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he
 \\hath sent.\\ They are startled by hearing that to please God
 the first requirement is faith in Christ. This is "the work of
 God" that pleases him. "Without faith it is impossible to please
 God."
 # Heb 11:6
 It is not works, but one work, that is required, a faith that
 would enable them to lay hold upon him who is the Bread of Life.
 From such faith would spring a Christlike life.
 (PNT 349)
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 # Joh 6:30
    \\What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe
 \\thee?\\ He had pointed to himself as the object of faith,
 making his claim, such as had never been made by mortal man. He
 had spoken of his seal, or sign. They ask now for a sign.
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:31
    \\Our fathers ate manna in the desert.\\ He may have fed a
 few thousands on the day before, but what was that to feeding of
 the whole host of Israel for forty years in the wilderness? Is
 he as great a leader as Moses, in whose time the manna fell?
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:32
    \\Moses gave you not that bread from heaven.\\ It was not
 Moses, with whom they were disposed to compare him, who
 furnished the manna in the wilderness, but the Lord.
 # Ex 16:15
 He still feeds the Israel of God on its way to the heavenly
 Canaan.
    \\My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.\\ The true
 bread is for the soul instead of the body. It satisfies the
 soul's hunger and keeps it alive. The Father gives it by sending
 the Son, the true bread of Life. Of the true bread the manna was
 a type.
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:33
    \\The bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven.\\ He
 here defines the marks of the true bread:
 (1) It comes from heaven;
 (2) It bestows life upon the soul and sustains it;
 (3) It is for the world, not for a single race.
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:34
    \\Lord, evermore give us this bread.\\ One cannot fail to see
 the resemblance to the case of the woman of Sychar. Compare the
 Lord's teachings there on the Water of Life.
 # 4:9-15
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:35
    \\Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life.\\ They ask for
 this bread. He answers, it is here; I am that bread. The work of
 God is that you receive it by believing upon him whom he hath
 sent. He that cometh shall not hunger; he that believeth shall
 not thirst. It is thus shown that faith is the power that brings
 us to Christ. We come to him by believing.
 (PNT 350)
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 # Joh 6:36
    \\Ye also have seen me, and believe not.\\ They had asked a
 work in order that they might believe, which was a confession of
 their unbelief. They ask for the bread of life, but they can
 only partake of it by believing in him. He therefore points out
 the one obstacle to obtaining what they had asked for.
 (PNT 350)