This week we start worship with:
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
This event comes after the feeding of the Five Thousand, when Jesus blessed the lunch of a little boy and multiplied it until all were fed . . . and twelve baskets were left over.
Intrigued by a free source of food that did not require the work of neither milling and baking, nor the planting and harvesting, the crowd sought out and found Jesus, who had left that area by walking on the water.
When they found Him, Jesus told them:
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Intrigued further, and being already burdened by the Law, they asked:
John 6:28
Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
To which He replied by dropping the “s”:
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Faith in Him is the only necessary work. They continued to press him to repeat the sign of manna which Moses performed. To which he replied with today’s verse, that He was indeed the bread of life.
Let’s eat.
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