Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Six

                                                                                                                                      Verses 41-44

The Jews became confused, and they complained because they did not understand how Jesus could claim to be bread from Heaven. They knew that Jesus was an earthly son of an earthly mother and father, so they could not understand how He could claim to be from Heaven. They ignored all the great miracles that Jesus had done. They did consider that Jesus could be a prophet, but they failed to consider that no prophet ever claimed to be directly from Heaven. They continued to think solely in material ways.

Jesus did not become exasperated with them. Jesus told them not to murmur. He was patient with them. Jesus taught them that no person can come to faith in Him except by a direct spiritual awakening that could only come from His Father. Jesus realized that they could not open their spiritual natures to hear His word. One would think that this would be a critical moment in Jesus' message to them. One would think that at this point in Jesus' message to these unbelievers that He would warn them that if they persisted in unbelief until their physical deaths, then He would have to cast them into an eternal lake of fire. But Jesus continued to be patient with them because He knew that that would not be their fate.

Jesus knew that near the end of the world, He would appear to them in whatever region of death that they happened to be, and He would effect a tremendous worship service of all that He had ever created, and when these unbelievers would see Him in all of His Majesty and Glory with His Infinite Love for them, then He would be able to awaken their souls and spirits to repent and believe in Him, the Lamb of God, of their own free will so that He will be able to resurrect all of their living souls and spirits and recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29.

God told the Devil in the beginning of the history of the human race that He would destroy him only and not the living human race. Genesis 3:15. God initiated the burnt offering to symbolize His lesser form of salvation for all living humans who do not obtain salvation by His grace. Genesis 8:20-21. God gave several prophecies in the Old Testament that He would effect a general resurrection in the end of the world that would save all living humans still in their graves. Psalm 36:6; Isaiah 45:20-25; Isaiah 66:22-24; Daniel 12:2-3.