John 6:33 Commentary and Bible Study

Notice how he puts it: the bread of God, the fulfilment is he himself. It is a person. It is Messiah. Now that is who I am, he effectively says to them. But they were so set on earthly salvation, deliverance from the Roman yoke and so on, that they did not understand.The true bread of God is not something given to the people by Moses, or even something miraculously provided by God and placed in the mouth. This cannot be called the bread of God, for it is cannot feed the soul but only the body. The true bread is the one who condescended to come down from heaven where he had dwelt for all eternity and where he is worshipped by angels and to be born a man. He alone is the bread of God, for he alone gives life to spiritually dead men and women as they trust in him as the Saviour of the world, and in particular as he lays down his life on Calvary.