Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, х seemeia (G4592)] - literally 'signs;' that is, supernatural tokens of a higher presence and a divine commission.
But because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. From this He proceeds at once to that other Bread, just as, with the woman of Samaria, to that other Water, (John 4:1-54.) We should have supposed all that follows to have been delivered by the wayside, or wherever they happened first to meet. But from John 6:59 we gather that they had probably met about the door of the synagogue-`for that,' says Lightfoot, 'was the day in which they assembled in their synagogues'-and that on being asked, at the close of the service, if He had any word of exhortation to the people, He had taken the two breads, the perishing and the living bread, for the subject of His profound and extraordinary discourse.