[pmh383388]

"I am the bread of life. Those who come to me will never be hungry, those who believe in me will never be thirsty. " (John 6.35 )

Can you explain clearly what is " the bread of life " ?

Thanks in ADVANCE.

[Fr_Chuck]

Looking at this verse in connection with the rest of the verse to the end of the chapter, ( you can not really take one verse out of context with the rest of the verses for a meaning) but where did Christ ( in that chapter) tell us this bread comes from

[savedsinner7]

Bread is necessary for sustaining life. In the Old Testament, God provided Bread from Heaven called Manna to sustain the Isrealites in the wilderness.

Jesus is the Bread of Life in the New Testament covenant. God supplies our needs through Jesus. This is fellowship with Him in a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Him. We cannot be filled any other way. Nothing else satisfies the soul. Nothing else feeds our spirits. Jesus is the only way we can be filled. I find Him in the Word, in prayer, in worship, in my every day by seeking Him and knowing that He is always near because He said He would be.

[jennyrene]

The carnal mind can not understand . You have to think spiritually. Your soul hungers just like your body does and nothing will fill that hunger in your soul like the word of god. This is not for everyone at this moment to understand. The bible says that no man cometh unto me unless the spirit draws him. So you will understand it when your heart is open and god shows you. Hope this helped

[Donna Mae]

Jesus is the true bread of life. "For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

"I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die."

When we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and we do everything that He tells us we must do to be saved. Then even when our earthly body dies we will live forever. Being with Christ while we are on earth is only the beginning. When we die our soul will go to paradise, and on the day of judgement we will be face to face with our glorious Lord for an eternity.

[hatch]

bread=ability to sustain life=Christ

[Galveston1]

Several good answers above. As you are what you eat physically, so what you "eat" spiritually determines what you are. As we take Jesus Christ into our life and "feed" upon Him daily, we become more like Him. Not that we will ever be Him, but that we will finally be like Him. That is the predestination that the Father plans for us.

Rom 8:29
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
(KJV)

[De Maria]

"I am the bread of life. Those who come to me will never be hungry, those who believe in me will never be thirsty. " (John 6.35 )

Can you explain clearly what is " the bread of life " ?

Thanks in ADVANCE.

This verse is the lead in to Jesus' teaching on the Eucharist. If you read further, you will see that Jesus Himself will answer that question:

35 And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst....51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. .... Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.....56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. 57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. 58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. 59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever. 60 These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

And this is what Catholics call the Holy Eucharist.

1338 The three synoptic Gospels and St. Paul have handed on to us the account of the institution of the Eucharist; St. John, for his part, reports the words of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum that prepare for the institution of the Eucharist: Christ calls himself the bread of life, come down from heaven.

Sincerely,

De Maria