40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every man which [a]seeth the Son, and believeth in him, should have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

41 [b]The Jews then murmured at him because he said, I am that bread, which is come down from heaven.

42 And they said, (A)Is not this Jesus that son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how then saith he, I came down from heaven?

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:40 Seeing and believing are joined together: for there is another kind of seeing, which is general, which the devils have, for they see: but here he speaketh of that kind of seeing, which is proper to the elect.
  2. John 6:41 Flesh cannot perceive spiritual things, and therefore the beginning of our salvation cometh from God, who changeth our nature, so that we being inspired of him, may abide to be instructed and saved by Christ.

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