Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   Chapter Six

                                                                                                                                      Verses 30-33

The people then demanded that Jesus perform some kind of sign to prove to them that He was their God and Savior. They ignored all of the miracles that Jesus had already done. God does not respond to human demands that He prove that He is God. God responds to human needs. He does not put on a show for anyone. God desires that humans come to faith in Him. That preserves God's dignity and man's humility before Him. All through the Bible (KJB), God provides evidence that He is God, but He never proves it. Should God ever provide proof that He is God in an absolute way, that would abolish free will in humans and give them no choice but to know that He exists. Such a condition would leave God's Love unproven and doubt about it would persist throughout eternity. The Devil very cleverly devised his rebellion to effect that very possibility because he wants evil to persist forever. Matthew 4:1-11. But God has devised a plan that will cause every human who ever lived to return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will which will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that God's Love is Almighty and real. God will prove that His Love is real and not that He exists because every living human will choose to love God and not be made to do it.

The people then demonstrated that they still clung to their material way of thinking when they told Jesus that God, because of Moses, had given their ancestors manna from Heaven in the desert as if physical food was all they needed. Jesus replied that God had given them bread from Heaven and not because of Moses. Jesus told them that His Father would give them "the true bread" from Heaven by which He meant the spiritual food that would supply them with everlasting life.

Jesus then preached to them that He was that "true bread" from Heaven that gives life to the whole human race. Christ cannot lie. He must do whatever He says He will do. Titus 1:2; Numbers 23:19. Jesus had already told these unbelievers in verse 27 that He would give them everlasting life which He will do in the end of the world when He brings them back to the faith in Him that He put into them when He created them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14. Nowhere in John chapter six or anywhere else in God's Word does He teach that physical death prevents God from saving lost humans forever. Jesus contradicted that doctrine in John 5:28-29.