Bread in the ancient world was a staple of life, essential for sustenance. In the context of John 6, Jesus had just performed the miracle of feeding the 5,000 with loaves and fishes, which sets the stage for this metaphor. The Greek word "artos" refers to bread, symbolizing nourishment...
In a broader scriptural context, Jesus is the "bread of life" (John 6:35), indicating that He is the essential sustenance for spiritual life. This act of taking bread is a reminder of Jesus' provision and care for His followers, both physically and spiritually. and gave it to themThe ...
You'll see several close parallels between the Bread of Life discourse and the Woman at the Well. Jesus is making the same point there as here.e."Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give ...
John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty... Read verse in New International Version
which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementar...
bread. This bread is God's help, and it is food for the life, and food for the soul, and God gives it to all those who obey His laws.» In a couple of passages in Homily i/ii Orm originally described the table with shewbread in the Temple in Jerusalem. He did not, however,...
Deuteronomy 16:3 "You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste ), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you
Rather, the question is: Does the Bible obligate us to treat wheat like a staple of life? Or putting it another way: Are those eating a wheat-free diet somehow out-of-step with the way God wants us to eat? What is the message behind wheat and bread in the Bible? Wheat and Bread ...
For often when we think we’ve solved one of society’s problems, all we’ve done is pass the buck and given ourselves a new set of problems. Perhaps we’re enchanted by the novelty of new problems, but on the other hand, there is no such thing as a problem-free life. So an arr...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionI am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”New Living TranslationI am the living bread that came down from heaven. ...