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John
6:24-35
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit:
Faith. |
| Primary texts (Pseudepigrapha, Targum, Midrash, Targum) about Messainic Expectation from
(Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the
World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts. |
| Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit:
Spiritual Error and the
Occult. |
| XVIX.17-29;
Tatian's Diatessaron
(c. 150-160). |
| Chapter III, Adversus
Judaeos, Tertullian
(c. 198) |
| Chapter
VI, On Prayer, Tertullian
(c. 199) |
| I.6, Paedagogus,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| I.1, III.12, VI.1, Stromata,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| Chapter
XXXVII, On the Resurrection of the Flesh, Tertullian
(c. 211) |
| Chapter
XXI, Against Praxeas, Tertullian
(c. 213) |
| I.23, I.33, Commentary
on the Gospel of John, Origen.
(c.228) |
| XII.5, XII.33, Commentary
on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247) |
| From Augustine's Tractates on John: Tractate XXV
(6:15-44). |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "The spiritual virtue of
Christ is condemned by those that desire earthly miracles." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
| "Constant exercise of faith in
Christ, is the most important and difficult part of the obedience
required from us, as sinners seeking salvation." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "Hitherto Christ had been
gathering hearers: he now begins to try their sincerity, by a
figurative discourse concerning his passion, and the fruit of it, to
be received by faith." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "But how could they ask
"a sign," when many of them scarce a day before had
witnessed such a "sign" as had never till then been
vouchsafed to men; when after witnessing it, they could hardly be
restrained from making Him a king; when they followed Him from the
one side of the lake to the other; and when, in the opening words of
this very discourse, He had chided them for seeking Him, "not
because they saw the signs," but for the loaves?" |
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| From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "The true bread is for the
soul instead of the body. It satisfies the soul's hunger and keeps
it alive. The Father gives it by sending the Son, the true bread of
Life. Of the true bread the manna was a type." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"First
Thoughts on Year B Gospel Passages in the Lectionary: Pentecost
9," William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
| "John is a healthy antidote to
activism which, without being rooted in a deep spiritual
relationship, has difficulty sustaining itself and becomes in danger
of a return to rules and obligations. John refreshingly calls us
back to the spirituality of relationship in which love is celebrated
and generated. That is profound nourishment." |
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| John 6:25-35,
Comments (commentary) and
Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Harvest Thanksgiving,
Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal. |
| John 6:24-35, Proper 18B,
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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11th Sunday after Pentecost, John 6:1-71 -- The Bread Which Gives Life
to the World, Paul S. Berge, Word & World Texts in Context, Luther
Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1985. |
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"Bread of Life,"
Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis. |
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Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western
Australia. |
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Exegesis,
Proper 13B, by Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
| "We, too, suffer from spiritual
myopia." |
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| Exegetical
Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian
Resources.
| "The way to get the bread that
comes down from heaven -- namely Jesus himself (v. 35) is to
continue coming to him and continue believing in him (both present
tense)." |
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"Life or Death?" John and Robin McCullough-Bade, Daily Discipleship
Bible Study, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006. |
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"Then and Now,"
Ordinary 18B, Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's
Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
| "Are you a 'news hound?' Do you like to
watch new talk shows or listen to political debate? Do you like to engage
others in discussions of politics? Why?" |
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"Fixation," Ordinary 18B, Fr. Gerry Pierse, C.Ss.R., from Sundays Into
Silence: Reflections on the Sunday Gospels in the Light of Christian
Meditation. Claretian Publications.
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"A way of prayer that is open -
like meditation - does not ignore needs, is not fixated, but leaves us
open to the challenge to our attitudes and values that is given to us when
Jesus - the Lord - makes his home in us." |
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Wellspring of
the Gospel, Ordinary 18B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn
Turner, Weekly Wellsprings. |
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"Jesus:
The Bread of Life,"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach.
"Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
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"There is something much deeper that Christ
seeks to offer these people than mere physical sustenance; he wants to
give them dignity! A person with dignity is never powerless; they will
never be anyone’s slave or prisoner." |
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Commentary
by Hall Harris at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
| "Note again the Johannine play
on the physical versus the spiritual (32-33)--the food which
perishes versus the food which remains for eternal life. Compare
with chapter 4 where the contrast was between the water that
quenched thirst temporarily versus the living water that would
satisfy thirst forever." |
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| "The Bread
of Life (John 6:22-71)," by Robert Deffinbaugh at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
| "This sixth chapter of John is
a watershed, a major turning point in the Gospel of John. From this
point on, Jesus is not nearly as popular as He once was. His enemies
are determined to do away with Him. From a historical point of view,
it is only a matter of time until our Lord’s arrest, trial, and
crucifixion." |
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"Bread
from Heaven," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes. |
| "You
Are In the One You Eat," James Squire and Ed Schroeder, Sabbatheology,
The Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "Not only does Jesus present
himself as the Living Bread from heaven, but he gives himself in
spite of all our efforts to resist." |
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| "A Sign,"
analysis and reflections by Ed Schroeder, at Sabbatheology by The Crossings
Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "Tricky is the translation and
interpetation of John's word "sign," a term crucial throughout John 6...The
miraculous is not the point here. Primary in John's use of "sign," are the
signals which Jesus gives that in his own words and deeds God is filling full--and
then--as John always adds throughout his Gospel--also exceeding--God's saving actions in
Israel's earlier history." |
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| "Missing the
Sign," analysis and reflections by Ed Schroeder, at Sabbatheology by The
Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri. |
| "Living
on Moses-Bread," analysis and reflection by Ed Schroeder, in Sabbatheology
by The Crossing Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "Christ as my Crust to live on. Read the text again with this question in
mind: What can/does daily life look like when people live from Jesus-bread instead of
Moses-bread?" |
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| Articles & Background:
| "Meals, Food and
Tablefellowship." Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament
Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
| "How
can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are
meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the
surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what
anthropologists call "the language of meals"?" |
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"Food
For Thought: The Bread of Life Discourse (John 6:25-71) in Johannine Legitimation,"
by James F. McGrath, from Theological Gathering 2 (Winter 1997).
| "...the bread of life
discourse represents a christological exposition of the Old
Testament manna tradition. Eucharistic language is thus probably
used not as an end in itself, but because it enables faith in Jesus
to be expounded in a way that is relevant to the Johannine
community's legitimation of its beliefs and practices in the context
of its conflict with the synagogue." |
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| Bread.
Articles, commentary, etc from Jewish Heritage OnLine Magazine. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Bailey, Raymond,
"John 6," Review and Expositor, 1988. |
| Balfour, Glenn,
"The Jewishness of John's Use of the Scriptures in John 6:31 and
7:37-38," Tyndale Bulletin, 1995.
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| Crossan, John Dominic,
"It Is Written: A Structuralist Analysis of John 6," Semeia,
1983. |
| Fowl, Stephen,
"John 6:25-35, Between Text and Sermon," Interpretation, 2007.
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| Gingrich, F. Wilbur,
Review of Peder Borgen, Bread from Heaven: An Exegetical Study of the
Concept of Manna in the Gospel of John and the Writings of Philo. Brill,
1965. Journal of Biblical Literature, 1967. |
| Kilmartin, S.J.,
"Liturgical Influence on John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1960. |
| Lilly, Joseph L.,
"The Eucharistic Discourse of John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1950. |
| Menken, M.J.J.,
"The Provenance and Meaning of the Old Testament Quotation in John 6:31,"
Novum Testamentum, 1988. |
| Phillips, Gary A.,
"'This Is A Hard Saying. Who Can Be Listener To It?': Creating a Reader in
John 6," Semeia, 1983. |
| Ruland, S.J., Vernon,
"Sign and Sacrament: John's Bread of Life Discourse," Interpretation,
1964. |
| Rusch, Frederick A.,
"The Signs and the Discourse - The Rich Theology of John 6," Currents
in Theology and Mission, 1978. |
| Temple, Patrick J.,
"The Eucharist in St John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1947. |
| VonWahlde, Urban C.,
"Faith and Works in Jn VI 28-29," Novum Testamentum, 1980. |
| Yeago, David S.,
"The Bread of Life: Patristic Christology and Evangelical Soteriology in
Martin Luther's Sermons on John 6," St Vladimir's Theological
Quarterly, 1995. |
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| Reviews:
| Anderson, Paul N., The Christology
of the Fourth Gospel: ITs Unity and Disunity in the Light of John 6.
Tubingen: Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1966.
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Review by Andreas J. Kostenberger, Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society, 1999. |
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Review by Sidney G Sowers, Anglican Theological Review, 1998. |
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Webster, Jane S., Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in
the Gospel of John. Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Reviews by
Francis J. Moloney, Peter-Ben Smit and Robert Baker in The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 2004. |
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| Sermons:
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"Out of Nowhere in the Middle of Nowhere,"
Pentecost 9,
6 August
2006, Luke Bouman, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the
RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors. |
| Father
Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
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"What Do you Want?"
the Rev. Dr. Ozzie E. Smith,
Day 1, 2003. |
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"An American Thanksgiving,"
"Bread of Life," Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. |
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"Discipleship -
Encountering Christ," John
Jewell, 2000. |
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"The Power of Presence,"
the Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler, Day 1, 2000. |
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"Rejection," the
Rev. Dr. Elton Richards, Day 1, 1997. |
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"I Am the Bread of Life,"
Joseph McMurray, Pacific School of Religion, 2000. |
| What Are You Working For? John 6:22-40, Ray C. Stedman. Text or Real Audio. |
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