João 6
H.A. Ironside · Citado em PreceptAustin
João 6
Ironside wrote: "When we recognize that his precious blood poured out on the cross has atoned for our sins, then we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood." Adrian Rogers (page 445) - Now, you know, there are so many folks who say, “Well, I just don’t understand why I’m so weak in the spiritual life.” I know why you’re so weak: You’re suffering from malnutrition. Jesus said, “You must feed on me—feed on me.” He says, “Eat my flesh; drink my blood. Feed on me! Feed on me! I am the bread that cometh down from heaven. Feed on me!” And how are you going to feed on Him? You’d better get in this book, friend. You’d better get in the Word of God. I mean, there’s no other way. All I’m doing here when I preach is just to whet your appetite. I can’t feed you Sunday by Sunday. Listen to what Jesus said. Just put these verses in your margin. First of all, John 15:7. Jesus said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Now the Word can’t abide in you, dear friend, unless the Word gets into you. You’re going to have to feed on the Word. The reason that we’re weak in prayer is we’re malnourished. Listen to John 14:23: “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” You say, “God doesn’t seem to be real to me.” Are you feeding on the Word? Here’s the third verse—Mark 8:38: “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Friend, there’s no way that you can say, “I’m proud of Jesus, but I’m ashamed of His Word.” Listen. You are going to have to treat this book with a reverence: the respect that you have for the Lord Jesus. You know, when I say that, there are some people who say, “You’re worshiping the Bible—you’re worshiping the Bible.” That’s not true; that’s malarkey. We worship the Lord of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ. But, friend, He puts being ashamed of Him right alongside of being ashamed of His Word. Listen. He is just simply saying that, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” Other books, you read them, friend. This book reads you. This book is alive. It pulsates with power. I mean, it is the Word of God. It is spirit; it is life. And get it into your heart. I’m telling you—I’m telling you—you’re not going to grow strong in the spiritual world, in the spiritual life, until you begin to feed on the Word of God. David H Stern (Borrow Jewish New Testament Commentary) comments that " The most literal sense of the text implies cannibalism, which, were it what Yeshua meant, would certainly be an insuperable barrier to faith in him. But even a high view of the inspiration of the Bible does not require the elimination of metaphorical and symbolic language. Although Yeshua's particular hearers may have been either shocked at what he said or seeking an excuse for not obeying his call to repentance and loyalty, not every Jewish audience would have reacted that way. For the same kind of metaphor is used in the Midrash Rabbah to Ecclesiastes 2:24 ("There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink"). The Midrash quotes rabbis from the 3rd-4th centuries C.E.: "Rabbi Tanchuma said in the name of Rabbi Nachman ben-Rabbi Shmuʾel ben-Nachman, and Rabbi Menachma said (according to another version Rabbi Yirmiyahu and Rabbi [Y'hudah HaNasi] said in the name of Rabbi Shmuʾel ben-Rabbi Yitzchak): 'All references to eating and drinking in the book of Qohelet [Ecclesiastes] signify Torah and good works.' Rabbi Yonah said, 'The clearest proof for this is Ecclesiastes 8:15, "A man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labor." The word for "his labor" is "ʿamalo," but it should be read "ʿolamo" ("his world"), that is, in this world. The verse continues, All "the days of his life"; and that alludes to the grave. So are there food and drink in the grave that accompany a person to the grave? Of course not. Therefore "food and drink" must mean Torah and good works.'" The point is that Jewish understanding allows for symbolic interpretation of "food and drink." To eat the flesh of the Son of Man is to absorb his entire way of being and living. The Greek word "sarx" ("flesh") is also used to refer to human nature in general, to the physical, emotional, mental and volitional aspects of human existence. Yeshua wants us to live, feel, think and act like him; by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh he enables us to do so. Likewise, to drink his blood is to absorb his self-sacrificing life-motivation and indeed his very life, since "the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11). Jews and Gentiles open to the truth of who Yeshua is will find this interpretation acceptable. G Campbell
João 6
Ironside wrote: “When we recognize that his precious blood poured out on the cross has atoned for our sins, then we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood.” PHILLIPS BROOKS. JOHN 6:57. He that eateth me, even he shall live by me. To feed on Christ is to get His strength into us to be our strength. You feed on the cornfield, and the strength of the cornfield comes into you, and is your strength. You feed on Christ, and then go and live your life; and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battles, and that wins the crown. John 6:58 "This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever." BGT John 6:58 οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον· ὁ τρώγων τοῦτον τὸν ἄρτον ζήσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. KJV John 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. NET John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever." CSB John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate-- and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever." ESV John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." NIV John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." NLT John 6:58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever." NRS John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever." NJB John 6:58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever. NAB John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." YLT John 6:58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.' GWN John 6:58 This is the bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread your ancestors ate. They eventually died. Those who eat this bread will live forever." BBE John 6:58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever. RSV John 6:58 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." John 6:32,34,41,47-51 John 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries JESUS THE BREAD FROM HEAVEN REDUX This is the bread (artos) which came down (katabaino) out of Heaven; not as the fathers ate and died - Jesus sums up the discourse by returning again to the contrast of the manna with the picture of the source of the Bread that is His flesh emphasizing that it is from Heaven. He who eats this bread (artos) will live (zao) forever - Here the contrast is that the one who eats this bread, His flesh, will receive eternal life, even though he will die physically.