Bread of Life

John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. When Jesus came to earth, one of the reasons that he was rejected was because He consistently referred to God as his Father. This was very objectionable and offensive to the Jews. The Jews, since the time of Moses, were always thought of as being God’s chosen people. They couldn’t stand anyone calling Jehovah their personal Father. However, this was one of Jesus’ most important messages. He came to tell the people of the earth that it was not only the Jews that were God’s chosen people but everyone that believeth on him. In the Old Testament, while the Jews were in the wilderness for forty years, God fed them with manna. This “bread of life” was God’s way of telling the Jews that they were his chosen people and that He would provide for them. The same holds true for the people in the time of Jesus. Jesus was God’s symbol to us of how much He loves us (see John 3:16). Jesus is the bread of life. Whoever believeth on him shall never hunger and never thirst because he or she has become one of God’s children and God will provide for them.