John
6:24-35
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- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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- Historical References, Commentary and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.
- XIX.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."
- 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."
- 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."
- 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?"
- 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."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Discussion after the Miraculous Feeding, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2012.
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Commentary,
John 6:24-35, Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org,
2009.
- "Preachers may need to remind their congregations about last week's text and the feeding of the multitude because in today's text, John begins to unpack the meaning of that earlier event."
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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."
- John 6:24-35, Ordinary 18B, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
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Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
John 6:25-35, David Ewart, 2010.
- "If we cannot "see" anything that endures, then we had better eat, drink and be merry to the max for tomorrow we die. But if we can truly open our inner eyes to "see" what endures, then we had better align our eating, drinking and merriment with what truly lasts and satisfies."
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Commentary, John 6:24-35, Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.,
The African American Lectionary, 2008.
- "Jesus is reason enough to find something worth loving in a foreign face; Jesus is cause enough to embrace others who wear different skin; Jesus is exactly the reason we need to put aside our enmity against those whose speak with tongues we cannot decipher. He is reason enough to overcome the chasms between us."
- 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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Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
John 6:25-35, David Ewart, 2010.
- "The challenge for us is to SEE which things perish and which things endure, and to embed ourselves - to abide in, to focus our living on - the things that endure. Because only the things that endure truly satisfy, and only the things that endure bring true life."
- "Bread from Heaven," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
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"Not by
Bread Alone," Norb E. Kabelitz,
Sabbatheology,
The Crossings Community, 2009.
- "It is of great interest and importance that the Eucharist now feeds not only zoe but also bios as leftovers are given in the agape meal to the poor and hungry!"
- 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.
- "Bread of Life," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
- Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
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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.
- "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."
- Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 18B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
- "Jesus:
The Bread of Life,"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach.
"Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
- "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."
- John 6:25-35,
Comments (commentary) and
Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Harvest Thanksgiving,
Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal."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."
- 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."
- Bread. Articles, commentary, etc from Jewish Heritage OnLine Magazine.
- "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.
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Bailey, Raymond,
"John 6," Review and Expositor, 1988.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Berge, Paul S., "The Bread Which
Gives Life to the World," Word & World, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Balfour, Glenn,
"The Jewishness of John's Use of the Scriptures in John 6:31 and
7:37-38," Tyndale Bulletin, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Crossan, John Dominic,
"It Is Written: A Structuralist Analysis of John 6," Semeia,
1983.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Fowl, Stephen,
"John 6:25-35, Between Text and Sermon," Interpretation, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - 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.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kilmartin, S.J.,
"Liturgical Influence on John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1960.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Koester, Craig R., "John Six and the
Lord's Supper," Lutheran Quarterly, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Laurence, John D., "The Eucharist as
the Imitation of Christ," Theological Studies, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lilly, Joseph L.,
"The Eucharistic Discourse of John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1950.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Naranjo-Huebl,
Linda, "'Take, Eat': Food Imagery, the Nurturing Ethic, and Christian
Identity in The Wide, Wide World, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," Christianity and
Literature, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Menken, M.J.J.,
"The Provenance and Meaning of the Old Testament Quotation in John 6:31,"
Novum Testamentum, 1988.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Phillips, Gary A.,
"'This Is A Hard Saying. Who Can Be Listener To It?': Creating a Reader in
John 6," Semeia, 1983.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Ruland, S.J., Vernon,
"Sign and Sacrament: John's Bread of Life Discourse," Interpretation,
1964.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Rusch, Frederick A.,
"The Signs and the Discourse - The Rich Theology of John 6," Currents
in Theology and Mission, 1978.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Temple, Patrick J.,
"The Eucharist in St John 6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1947.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Toppin, Shirlyn,
"'Soul Food' Theology: Pastoral Care and Practice through the Sharing of
Meals: A Womanist Reflection," Black Theology, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Voelz, James W., "The Discourse on
the Bread of Life in John 6: Is It Eucharistic?" Concordia Journal,
1989.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - VonWahlde, Urban C.,
"Faith and Works in Jn VI 28-29," Novum Testamentum, 1980.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - 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.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Bailey, Raymond,
"John 6," Review and Expositor, 1988.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sermons:
- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
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- With Children:
- "A Goal or a Gift?" children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com.
- "Bread of Life," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com.
- John 5 & 6 Word Search, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
- Drama:
- "In Front of the Synagogue of Capernaum," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
- "Tough Teaching," Jane and Mark Lewis, Potted Jam.
- "The Life Booster," Greg Brook, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art Images: John 6:24-34, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
- John 6:24-35, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- Images for this week's readings, Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
- John 6:24-35, John 6:30-35, John 6:30-35, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
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- Hymns and Music:
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: John 6:32, 33, 35. The Cyber Hymnal.
- At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke files, projection text):
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of John
