Matthew Poole and continuators on John 6:51

51 I am the living bread, which came down from heaven . If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : And the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world .

See the Notes on v. 33, & 35. Our Saviour's so often inculcating this, and what follows, lets us see both how necessary this is to be known, and also how difficult the work of believing is

Those words, he shall live for ever, expound those that went before in the 50th. Verse, that a man might eat thereof and not dye

His saying, that the bread which he giveth, is his Flesh, expounnds what he said before, viz. how he is the bread of Life, viz. by giving his Flesh, that is, his Life, for the Life of the World, that many might be saved: Hereby shewing us, that the object of our Faith is a Christ Crucified, 1 Cor. 2.2.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.13.; Heb. 1[illegible: 1 letter].5, 10.