John 6:32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
This passage takes place when the crowds had been tracking Jesus down, and when they finally found Him, they asked: "When did you get here and where did you come from?" Jesus then talks about the manna that God sent to the Israelites in the Old Testament as "bread from heaven." It was not a gift from Moses, but from God. In identifying Himself as "The Bread of Life", he is doing two things: First, He is saying "I came form God; He sent me from heaven." That tells us where He came from. It also tells us how important He is. Without the manna in the wilderness, the people of Israel would have died there. In the same way without "The Bread of Life", we shall surely die spiritually. Bread is much more than one kind of food; the term represents "food, sustenance,"* what we need to live. We need Jesus for life. Do we appreciate how vital He is to our very existence and for eternal life?
*(Diann Cotton: 100 Days with Jesus)
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