Session 8 John 6:26-40
the crowd still did not understand who Jesus was.
30 “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?”
they asked. “What are you going to perform?
31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written:
He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”32 Jesus said to them,
“Truly I tell you,
Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven,
but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”34 Then they said,
“Sir, give us this bread always.”
Identify the expectations of the crowd.
Explain the “bread from heaven”
as manna that God gave His people
while they wandered in the wilderness.
Matthew 12:38-41;
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him,
"Teacher, we want to see a sign from You."
39 But He answered and said to them,
"An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign;
and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;
40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER,
so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment,
and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mark 15:32;
"Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross,
so that we may see and believe!"
Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.
John 6:12-14;
12 When they were filled, He said to His disciples,
"Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost."
13 So they gathered them up,
and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves
which were left over by those who had eaten.
14 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said,
"This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world."
John 20:30-31.
30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples,
which are not written in this book;
31 but these have been written
so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God;
and that believing you may have life in His name.
compare the verses with the words of the crowd in verse 30.
Jesus was not giving up on the crowd despite their stubbornness.
Instead, He continued explaining the truth, guiding them to focus on Him and what He offered.
Unfortunately, the crowd’s response in verse 34
indicates that they were listening but still not understanding.
In some ways, they were like the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4.
They were so fixated on the physical
while Jesus was trying to shift their focus to the spiritual.