6:27
We think that food is so important, but we need to have a right perspective. Jesus teaches the same sort of thing in Matt 6:25-34. Food does matter, but it is not what life is about. One of the tricks of the enemy is to get us completely focused on our daily needs. He can do this through getting us to worry constantly, he can do this through some forms of so-called prosperity teaching, he can do it in all sorts of ways. Material goods are ultimately worthless. Jesus is also looking ahead to what He will say next. The Jews, based on Deut 18:15, were expecting someone like Moses, and someone who would provide manna from heaven. But the manna, although it came from heaven, perished as well. It lasted only for a time. Jesus was bringing the food that would endure for eternal life. Like the water He promised the Samaritan woman, He was bringing bread that would last forever. And it is Jesus alone who can give us this eternal food., and He can do this because the Father has set His seal upon Jesus.
6:28
There were two crucial elements in what Jesus said in the previous verse: (i) work; and (ii) I will give you. The people focused on the work. They wanted to know what the “works of God” are, although Jesus had not actually mentioned the term “works of God”. In Romans 3:20 Paul declares that no one is justified by “works of the law”. And in 1 John 4:23 John tells us that “this is His commandment, that we believe in the Name of His Son”.
Again, after Peter’s first sermon in Acts 2:37 the people asked “what shall we do”.
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