The message of John the Baptist and of Jesus to the people and the church-leadership was "[Change]! Repent.” The Kingdom of God is at hand. The Jews murmured at this because Jesus didn't fit their ideas. This is also true in our generation. Jesus instructed people to look for the anti-Christ, tribulation, persecution, death - and resurrection. He did not speak of “a rapture escape” or of going-to-heaven-when-we-die. Don’t take offense. Repent. Change.
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Ch. 38 - Jesus Speaks of the Bread of Life
John 6:22-71
The next day the people on the shore he had left sought Jesus but could not find him. They knew that no boat had been there but the one his disciples had entered, and they knew Jesus had not entered it with them.
Many other boats came to the place where he fed the five thousand. Those on these ships, hearing that Jesus was gone, sailed to Capernaum, taking with them many from the shore who were also searching for Jesus.
They found Jesus teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum and they said to him:
“Master, when camest thou hither?”
Jesus answered them, saying:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, ‘Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.’ Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you; for him hath God the Father sealed.”
They said to him:
“What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?”
Jesus replied:
“This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
Then they asked him:
“What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work?
Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.’”
Jesus answered:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, ‘Moses gave you not that bread from Heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from Heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from Heaven, and giveth life unto the world.’”
They said:
“Lord, evermore give us this bread.”
Jesus said:
“I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from Heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have...
