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I. IN WHAT SENSE IS OUR LORD THE BREAD OF LIFE?

1. He evidently intimated that there was in Him that which, if properly received, would communicate eternal life (vers. 51, 53).

2. He obviously points to His sufferings and death as that from which we were to derive our life.

3. For Him to be to us the bread of life depends on two things —

(1)  That we receive the full pardon of our sins;

(2)  that we have a meetness for glory by the sanctification of our souls.

II. WHO ARE THOSE WHO DERIVE BENEFIT FROM HIM? Not all, but only those who come in faith.

1. Before we can do this we must have a sense of our need of Him.

2. Those will not come to Him who fail to see His perfections, believe in His atonement, and hear His invitation.

3. There must be moral effort. "Labour." We must evidently turn our backs resolutely on the sins we loved.

4. We must come to Him by the prescribed means — meditation on His Word and importunate prayer.

III. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT of which He speaks. The believer shall never hunger or thirst —

1. After sin.

2. Nor anxiously after holiness; only with such a sweet desire as serves to animate the spirit on its road to that state where it will thirst no more.

(B. Noel, M. A.)

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KJV: Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

WEB: They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."