Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I am, etc.--Understand, it is of MYSELF I now speak as the Bread from heaven; of MEif a man eat he shall live for ever; and "THE BREAD WHICH I WILL GIVE IS MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD." Here, for the first time in this high discourse, our Lord explicitly introduces His sacrificial death--for only rationalists can doubt this not only as that which constitutes Him the Bread of life to men, but as THAT very element IN HIM WHICH POSSESSES THE LIFE-GIVING VIRTUE.--"From this time we hear no more (in this discourse) of "Bread"; this figure is dropped, and the reality takes its place" [STIER]. The words "I will give" may be compared with the words of institution at the Supper, "This is My body which is given for you" (Luke 22:19), or in Paul's report of it, "broken for you" (1 Corinthians 11:24).
He that believeth, etc.--(See on John 3:36; John 5:24).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 22:4
John 6:27
John 6:39
John 6:53-58
John 8:51
John 20:31
Revelation 2:7
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