John 6:34,35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lord, evermore give us this bread.— It is reasonable to imagine, as we have observed a little before, that the people who now heard our Lord were of different characters: many of them, no doubt, were obstinately perverse, heard him with prejudice, and wrested all his words; but others of them might be men of honest dispositions, who listened to his doctrine with pleasure, and were ready to obey it. This latter sort, therefore, having heard him describe the properties of this celestial bread, were greatly struck with the thoughts of it, and expressed an earnest desire to be fed with it always. To these our Lord replied, in words of boundless comfort, "I am the bread of life,—the bread of God which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. He that cometh to me, and makes his application to me, shall never hunger; and he that perseveringly believeth on me, shall never thirst, but may depend upon it that he shall find the most restless desires of his soul satisfied; and, conscious of the noblest refreshment and nourishment already received, shall grow up to a state of everlasting complete satisfaction and enjoyment." Thus our Lord assigned one of the many reasons why he called himself the bread of life. See John 6:47-48; John 6:51. The conclusion from this part of his discourse is so evident, that he left his hearers to draw it for themselves. It was this: "Since matters are so, I am manifestly greater than Moses, even in respect of that for which you extol him most. He gave your fathers manna, which was a bodily food only, and nourished nothing but the natural life; but I am myself the bread of life, the food of the soul, making men both holy and happy." See on Ch. John 4:14.