John 6:35-40
Three of our Lord Jesus Christ’s great sayings are strung together, like pearls, in this passage. Each of them ought to be precious to every true Christian. All taken together, they form a mine of truth, into which he that searches need never search in vain.
We have, first, in these verses, a saying of Christ about Himself. We read that 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.”
Our Lord would have us know that He Himself is the appointed food of man’s soul. The soul of every man is naturally starving and famishing through sin. Christ is given by God the Father, to be the Satisfier, the Reliever, and the Physician of man’s spiritual need. In Him and His mediatorial office,–in Him and His atoning death,–in Him and His priesthood,–in Him and His grace, love, and power,–in Him alone will empty souls find their needs supplied. In Him there is life. He is “the bread of life.”