John 6:57 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

KJV

As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

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Commentary

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Gregory of Nazianzus

ON THE SON, THEOLOGICAL 4(30).11 (390)

All things that the Father has are the Son's. On the other hand, all that belongs to the Son is the Father's. Nothing then is unique to either one, because all things are in common. For their being [essence] itself is common and equal, even though the Son receives it from the Father. It is in this respect … that it is said, "I live by the Father," not as though his life and being were kept together by the Father but because he has his being from him beyond all time and beyond all cause.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

So he that eateth me, even he shall live by me - From which we learn that the union between Christ and his followers shall be similar to that which subsists between God and Christ.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

Few passages of Scripture have been so painfully twisted and perverted as that which we have now read. The Jews are not the only people who have striven about its meaning. A sense has been put upon it, which it was never intended to bear. Fallen man, in interpreting the Bible, has an unhappy aptitude for turning food into poison. The things that were written for his benefit, he often makes an occasion for falling. Let us first consider carefully, what these verses do NOT mean.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They asked how it was possible to eat His flesh. He answers, with great solemnity, "It is indispensable." Yet even here a thoughtful hearer might find something to temper the harshness. He says they must not only "eat His flesh" but "drink His blood," which could not but suggest the idea of His death--implied in the separation of one's flesh from his blood.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καθὼς	kathōs	Even as	G2531 →
ἀπέστειλέν	apesteilen	sent	G649 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ζῶν	zōn	living	G2198 →
πατὴρ	patēr	Father	G3962 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	and I myself	G1473 →G2532 →
ζῶ	zō	live	G2198 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πατέρα,	patera	Father,	G3962 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
τρώγων	trōgōn	feeding on	G5176 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
κἀκεῖνος	kakeinos	he also	G2532 →G1565 →
ζήσει	zēsei	will live	G2198 →
δι᾽	di᾽	because of	G1223 →
ἐμέ.	eme	Me myself.	G1473 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
leads to
- Galatians 5:24
  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15
  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Romans 6:4–6
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
- Colossians 3:3–4
  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Through
John 17:21
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 12:12
  The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
- Colossians 3:11–14
  Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- John 17:11
  I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that…