John 6:58

This, &c. Compare John 6:50, and see on Matthew 16:18.

live for ever. This is the opposite of death (John 6:49), and is to be only by and through resurrection (verses: John 6:39; John 6:40; John 6:44).

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This is that Bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead; he that eateth of this Bread shall live forever.
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

This is — That is, I am the bread — Which is not like the manna your fathers ate, who died notwithstanding.

⁵⁸ This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

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