“28 So they said to Him: what should we do in order to do the works of God29 Jesus answered them: this is the work of God, so that you believe in Him, whom He sent” – this is clearly inserted here, again, purely mechanically, it is meaningless in no way not tied to either 27 or 30 and subsequent
“30 To this they said to Him: What kind of a sign will You give so that we may see and believe You? What are you doing? 31 Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat”– this is a very strange statement from those with whom Jesus allegedly speaks, with those who “ate bread and were satisfied” that is, literally with those just witnessing the miracle of the multiplication of loaves. Attention is drawn to “Our Fathers…” – which fathers, who “ate manna,” the Jewish ones? But this conversation is with the inhabitants of Capernaum, who have nothing to do with the Jews at all, because it is in Galilee. But since these events most likely take place in the same location as the Last Supper, Jews were present there, and further conversation takes place here as well.
“32 Jesus 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 that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” Why did Jesus suddenly remember Moses? And – interestingly – compares the miracle of Jehovah with manna, claiming that HIS FATHER gives, unlike the God of Moses, Life to the world. Notice: This is a direct opposition of different gods: false Jehovah and God, the True Father. There is not and cannot be any continuity of religions, Jesus here speaks about it directly.
In essence, 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?