John 6:22-58, 66-69
Sea of Galilee
Sea of Tiberias
Sea of Chinnereth [“harp”?]
Lake of Gennesaret
Sea of Ginosar
Kinneret
90 miles north of Jerusalem
“Lake”
35 miles circumference
13 miles long, 8 miles wide;
64 square miles
Lowest freshwater lake on earth; 700 feet below sea level
Caesarea Philippi 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee 1,150 feet above sea level. Headwaters of the Jordan River.
North of Caesarea Philippi is Mt. Hermon – elevation 8,000 –10,000 feet
Dead Sea 105 miles south of Sea of Galilee; 1,400 feet below sea level (lowest place on earth); 10Xs saltier than the ocean; mineral salts; 25 miles east of Jerusalem, rise of 4,000 ft.
Feeding of 5,000; only miracle in all 4 Gospels:
Matt 14; Mark 6; Luke 9; John 6
No other miracles in John are in other Gospels.
Mark 6:34; Matt 14:13-14; Luke 9:11
John 6:14-15
John 6:22-60
6:22-24. The Message: The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone. There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.
Background about manna
Israel in Egypt, after about 400 hundred years, ended up in bondage
Moses leads Israel out of Egypt, across Red Sea; wilderness.
45 days later, hungry and thirsty
Exodus 16:1-7, 14-16
Exodus 16:15 “What is it” – “man hu”
“Give us this day our daily bread”
“Came from heaven” means God provided it.
John 6:35 “I am the bread of life” – egō eimi o artos tēs zōēs
“I (egō) am (eimi)”- pronoun egō, emphasizes the pronoun “I”
Exodus 17:1-6 God provides water.
1 Corinthians 10:3-4. and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.
God’s provision of bread and water was a TYPE of what the Messiah would accomplish on a bigger scale.
6:40 “Eternal” = “age” – pointing to life in the age of the Kingdom of God.
“Eat his flesh and drink his blood” means believe in what he will have accomplished in his atoning work on the cross.
The only way back to the tree of life is to trust in the one who hung upon the tree of death. —Trevor Laurence
John 6:35. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.”
John 6:41. Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”
John 6:48. I am the bread of life.
John 6:51. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
