6:41,42
“So the Jews grumbled about Him”. “The Jews” are the religious leaders, rather than the ordinary people. They objected to Jesus saying He came down from heaven. Their grumbling is reminiscent of the Israelites who grumbled their way into, through, and out of the wilderness. The root of the grumbling is twofold. The primary part is that they did not want to admit that they needed someone from heaven to sort them out. We get a similar thing today when sceptics will object to our saying Jesus is the only way to heaven, or that we need to listen to God and have a responsibility to Him. This causes a reaction in man who wants to decide for himself how things should work. The second part of the objection is that they knew who his human family was. So they could use this as an excuse to reject Jesus’ claim. But man is not just material. This is uniquely true of Jesus who was born as we are all born, but came from heaven, He is God incarnate. But it is also true of all of us. We are not just material, and when someone is born again by the Holy Spirit things change. Paul says he no longer viewed Jesus from a purely human perspective, and should no longer view anyone from a purely human perspective (2 Cor 5:16).
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