An Amazing Fact: in medievel times, bakers who sold bread that was lighter that they claimed could be severly punished. In England, on a first offense, the baker would be paraded through the dirties streets from the town hallto his home with the loaf around his neck. A second offense would earn him an hour in the pillory. A third offense meant he would be unable to sell bread in that town again. But it was worse still in Turkey and Egypt- where the baker's ear would be nailed to the doorpost of his shop.
The feeding of the 5,000 inspired the people around Jesus- they hoped He could feed them just like their forefathers had been fed with manna. But Jesus wanted them to know that eternal life is more inportant than physical life: (John 6:40-51) "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.'Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
Jesus didn't want this symbol of Himself to be misunderstood, so He gave them the interpretation of His actions: John 6:47, 48, 56. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life, I am the bread of life, He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. Eating Christ's flesh really meant to abide in Him- to believe in Him as their Savior from sin.
In spite of the plainess of His message, many of His disciples complained that" this was a hard saying; who can understand it?" John 6:60. Many of Jesus' followers were not ready to accept this kind of Messiah. They would rather have kept their sins and got rid of the Romans. What kind of Savior do we want today? Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
1 John 3:23-24.
And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
Nehemiah 1:5
Then I said: “LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
John 14:15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.
Revelation 2:23
I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
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