João 6

48 "I am the bread of the Life.*Since the Lord is obviously not claiming to be a loaf of literal bread, this is a figure of speech, a metaphor. Bread was their staff of life; they could not live without it. Jesus is our spiritual ‘staff of life’; we cannot live spiritually without Him. 49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.*I take it that this statement is in response to theirs in verse 31 above. 50 This is the bread that comes down out of Heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.*Verse 49 presumably refers to physical death, while verse 50 refers to spiritual death. Notice the "anyone may eat"; this is an open invitation. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. Actually, the bread that I will give is my flesh,*I take it that He is referring to His physical body, which represents the incarnation, with all that involved. which I will give on behalf of the life of the world."*"The life of the world"—wow! Well, according to Romans 8:19-23 the whole creation is groaning, waiting for redemption.