here Jesus refutes as false and rejects the fairytale biblical story of “manna from heaven”, which Jehovah fed the Jewish people during forty years of wandering in the wilderness. And he directly points to Himself as to the Savior sent to humanity by the Heavenly Father. What does “coming down from heaven” mean – a definition that we will come across more than once? This, of course, is a mention of the Birth from Above experienced by Jesus Himself and the unity gained through this birth with the Father (“I and the Father are one”).
“34 To this they said to Him: Lord! always give us such bread.35 Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life "– this is the moment of Truth, and then:" He who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst "– a clear overkill to enhance the effect, Jesus I would not lie for the sake of hyperbole, exalting Himself, since the vital needs of the living remain valid and are not canceled for those who believe in Jesus today.
“6:36But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not. 6:37All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 6:38For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 6:39And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.”– the obsessive repetition of the unity of His will with the Will of the Father who sent him. In into this the gnostic “descent from Heaven” was unexpectedly inserted, and all this done for the sake of “but to resurrect everything on the last day” – this, we will see, is repeated three times in a row, just to make sure, and is clearly attributed to the previous statements by those who expected from Jesus the fulfillment of Jewish prophecies.
“40 The will of Him who sent Me is that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life” – this is the authentic statement of Jesus, followed by the Judaizing postscript: “And I will raise him up at the last day.”
“6:41The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven. 6:42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?” – Lord, and these, then, where did they come from here, the Jews? And not strangers, but people who personally knew his family?
“6:43Jesus answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 6:44No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.” – again the same postscript at the end with an obsessive repetition.
“6:45It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me. 6:46Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he that is from God, he hath seen the Father.” – first the prophets as a source of wisdom, and then learning from God. In fact, the bridge of religious succession is being thrown again: he who has learned from the Father – from where? Yes from the Hebrew Scriptures, where else!? Teaching from God by the Spirit is immediately refuted in the next verse: you don’t understand, this is something else!
“6:47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life. 6:48I am the bread of life.” Repitition. “6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.” – repeating the same insertion;
“6:50This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” – Note that between” I am the bread that came down from Heaven “and” I came down from Heaven” there is a huge semantic difference: the first has a symbolic meaning, and the second affirms direct descent of Jesus directly from Heaven directly in the flesh to earth, which is a clear evidence of pagan beliefs in flesh gods, so that the previous “statement of Jesus” about His descent from heaven belongs to the pagan author, Jesus simply could not say that.
“6:52The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” – Jews again, another false jaw.
“6:53Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. 6:54He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” Yes, here it is again.
“6:55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven… "– this is this piece of text authentic to Jesus, torn out from the event of the Last Supper, supplied with the same obsessive postscript about manna:" Not like your fathers ate manna and died: He who eats this bread will live forever”– and roughly inserted into this entirely fictional dispute with the Jews, by the authors. And where is the dispute taking place? ‘59 He spoke this in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum’ – oh, that’s it, in the heat of a conversation on the shore with the Tiberias boatmen, he suddenly imperceptibly moved from the shore to Capernaum, finding himself in the synagogue surrounded by the Jews. Let me remind you that in Galilee Capernaum there were no Jews, let alone a Jewish synagogue. It will actually appear there, the synagogue, only 50 years later, after the Jewish wars and populating of Galilee by the refugee Jews. This whole ‘conversation with the Jews’ at first consisted of an independent passage from the Last Supper 53—58, and then gradually grew into completely meaningless repetitions and obsessive Judaization in several stages of editing and rewriting by those who wanted to turn Jesus’ sermon in their own way. In subsequent chapters, we will repeatedly encounter similar artificial heaps of ridiculous semantic constructions.
“6:60Many therefore of his disciples, when the heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 6:61But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you to stumble? 6:62What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before? 6:63It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life. 6:64But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. 6:65And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father. 6:66Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 6:67Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away? 6:68Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 6:69And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy One of God. 6:70Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil? 6:71Now he spake of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
Well, it seems they had to finish with something, because the number of absurdities and incongruities is growing in an avalanche. The Jews suddenly disappeared somewhere along with the synagogue, but some more tempted disciples appeared whom Jesus did not choose (did not I choose you twelve), unbelievers whom He knew in advance, to whom it was not given from the Father – and how could they then become pupils? Peter believes i Him – at the same time! – both as the Son of God (that is, the younger god according to pagan beliefs), and in Christ at the same time, that is, the Anointed and King of the Jews. “But one of you is a devil” – why then chose him, for your own destruction, perhaps so “that the scriptures might be fulfilled”?
And what did you and I learn from Jesus from this lengthy
