Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Six

                                                                                                                                                Verses 67-71

Jesus asked His true disciples if they would walk away. Simon Peter opened his spiritual nature to receive a direct revelation from God that Jesus was God's Son and his Savior. Simon Peter partook of Jesus' spiritual food. All of Jesus' true disciples believed in Him, but Simon Peter was the first one to be so inspired by God that he could clearly express his faith in Jesus. Jesus commended Peter for his clear expression of his faith, and Jesus told Peter that He would build His whole Church on precisely this kind of clear, spiritual inspiration that Christ is God's Son and the believer's Savior. Matthew 16:16-18. For this reason, salvation by grace happens immediately after repentance and faith demonstrated by spiritual inspiration from the Holy Spirit. John 5:24; I Corinthians 6:11. Jesus then revealed that He knew that they had a devil in their midst.

Jesus knew that His Apostle John would write His Gospel for anyone who could read His Bible (KJB) or hear it preached. Jesus gave John a prophecy about how His Gospel would affect the entire human race. The multitude that Jesus fed symbolized all humans who will not receive salvation by grace. Jesus fed them all which accords with His teaching that His bread will give life to all mankind. John 6:33; John 6:27. Jesus had His disciples take up twelve baskets of leftovers to symbolize that He also had plenty of spiritual food to give to all who would become saved by His grace. Jesus deliberately preached to those He knew would not be able to become saved by grace to show that in the future most humans who hear the gospel will not be saved by grace.

Jesus walked on water to His disciples in a storm to prophecy that He will always protect His Church, calm its storms, and bring it safely to its destination which is Heaven. Matthew 16:18. Jesus had His Father and the Holy Spirit to directly inspire Simon Peter to believe He was God and his Savior to demonstrate the future method He would use to build His Church. Jesus preached that only those future humans whom His Father could inspire to hear spiritual truth would be able to become saved by God's grace.

In the end of the world, Christ will save even the spiritual nature of Judas Iscariot, probably confined to the depths of the burning Hell. Matthew 26:50; John 15:13; Revelation 5:11-14. But Jesus also knows who the devils are in His Church and in the world, and in the end of the world He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all human systems confined to the regions of death in order to separate their evil, spiritual deaths from their repentant, living natures so that He can recreate their living natures that He created and loves with new bodies to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their evil, dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 20:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29.