John 6:51 (WEB)
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Catechism · 4
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“In the communion, preceded by the Lord's prayer and the breaking of the bread, the faithful receive "the bread of heaven" and "the cup of salvation," the body and blood of Christ who offered himself "for the life of the world":” — Catechism footnote: Jn 6:51.
The Seven Petitions
“For this reason the specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 6:26-58.
“The Father in heaven urges us, as children of heaven, to ask for the bread of heaven. [Christ] himself is the bread who, sown in the Virgin, raised up in the flesh, kneaded in the Passion, baked in the oven of the tomb, reserved in churches, brought to altars, furnishes the faithful each day with food from heaven.” — Catechism footnote: St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 67 PL 52, 392; Cf. Jn 6:51.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Nevertheless, little by little he alludes to him even in his teaching of the multitudes, as when he reveals that his own flesh will be food for the life of the world.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 6:27, 51, 62-63.
Fathers and councils · 57
Gregory of Nyssa
“…born again of water and of the Spirit he shall not enter into the kingdom of God” and that “He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood, shall live for ever,” are persuaded that the mystery of godliness is ratified by the confession of the Divine Names—the Names of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that…” — editor's note: Cf. S. John vi. 51 and 54.
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John Damascene
“And again, He that eateth Me, shall live.” — editor's note: St. John vi. 51–55.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…partakers of His Body, let them have lived as they will; because of that which the Lord speaks, “If any man eat of this bread, he shall not die eternally.” [John 6:51] Again, others promise this not to all who have Christ’s sacrament, but to Catholics only, however ill their lives, who have eaten Christ’s Body, not…” — the author cites it
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“When then we pray God to give us our ‘peculiar’ or ‘chief’ bread, we mean Him who says in the Gospel, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven.” [John 6:51]” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“In the Old Testament also there was shew-bread; but this, as it belonged to the Old Testament, has come to an end; but in the New Testament there is Bread of heaven, and a Cup of salvation, sanctifying soul and body; for as the Bread corresponds to our body, so is the Word appropriate to our soul.” — editor's note: Ben. Ed.: “Here we are to understand (by ὁ Λόγος) the Divine Word, not the bare discourse of God, but the second Person of the Holy Trinity, Christ Himself,…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—You have spoken as a lover of truth should speak, for when the Lord had taken the symbol, He did not say “this is my godhead,” but “this is my body;” and again “this is my blood” and in another place “the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51
Read the whole comment“So the Lord Himself used this name and that very body we call divine body, and giver of life, and of the Master and of the Lord, teaching that it is not common to every man but belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ Who is God and Man.” — editor's note: John vi. 51
Read the whole comment“‘And the bread that I will give is my flesh.’” — editor's note: John vi. 51
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“The Lord said “the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world,” and again “I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine…and I lay down my life for the sheep.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51
Read the whole comment ““For,” He says, “the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world,” and when He took the symbol of divine mysteries, He said, “This is my body which is given for you.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51
Read the whole comment“…“my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death” and of His body He says “The bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world,” and when He delivered the divine mysteries and broke the symbol and distributed it, He added “This is my body which is being broken for you for the remission…” — editor's note: John vi. 51
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Ambrose of Milan
“…dost use to purify the hidden chambers of the soul, a Cup not of the old order, nor filled from a common Vine,—a new Cup, brought down from heaven to earth, filled with wine pressed from the wondrous cluster, which hung in fleshly form upon the tree of the Cross, even as the grape hangs upon the Vine.” — editor's note: Cf. S. John vi. 32, 50–51.
Read the whole comment““This is the living bread, which came down from heaven.”” — editor's note: S. John vi. 51.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the corn is God’s: inasmuch as He is “the living bread which came down from heaven.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment““Since they have embittered Thee, O Lord: I am,” saith He, “the Bread which came down from heaven;” again, “Labour for the meat which wasteth not;” again, “Taste and see that the Lord is sweet.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“Those rich then lack, they lack, and what is heavier, they lack bread.…For He hath said, “I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment““I am the living bread which came down from heaven.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment““Seek the Lord,” ye needy, hunger ye and thirst; for He is Himself the living bread that came down from Heaven.” — editor's note: John vi. 33, 51.
Read the whole comment““I am,” He said, “the living bread, who came down from heaven;” and, “I am the Vine, and ye are the branches.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“What too would fear profit, unless “the gracious and merciful Lord” gave “meat unto them that fear Him”? (ver. 5); meat that doth not spoil, “bread that cometh down from heaven,” which He gave to no deservings of ours.” — editor's note: John vi. 27, 51.
Read the whole comment“The bread came down upon the earth, that He might become milk unto us; and said to His own, “I am the Living Bread which came down from heaven.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“So then we are poor, our life is hid; let us cry to Him that is our Bread.…” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“After this address, too, his narrative is again borne on to one subject after another, in a sublime strain.” — editor's note: John vi. 22–72.
Read the whole comment“John, on the other hand, has said nothing about the body and blood of the Lord in this context; but he plainly certifies that the Lord spake to that effect on another occasion, with much greater fulness than here.” — editor's note: John vi. 32–64.
Read the whole comment“And what dost thou ask of God, but Christ, who saith, “I am the living Bread which came down from heaven”?” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“Here thou art rich, but thou art poor there.” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“Who is the Bread of the kingdom of God, but He who saith, “I am the Living Bread which came down from heaven”?” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“What, therefore, he has added, to “eat bread,” also elegantly expresses the very kind of sacrifice of which the Priest Himself says, “The bread which I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“If a man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever.”” — editor's note: John vi. 50, 51.
Read the whole comment“If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever.”” — editor's note: John vi. 50, 51.
Read the whole comment““I am,” saith He, “the living bread, which came down from heaven.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“The Jews, because they were weak in perception, and had not exercised the senses of the soul in virtue, and did not comprehend this discourse about bread, murmured against Him, because He said, ‘I am the bread which came down from heaven, and giveth life unto men.’” — editor's note: Ib. 51
Read the whole comment“But Lazarus, after being afflicted in worldly things, found rest in heaven, and having hungered for bread ground from corn, he was there satisfied with that which is better than manna, even the Lord who came down and said, ‘I am the bread which came down from heaven, and giveth life to mankind.’” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
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John Chrysostom
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Jerome
“She declared that she could see the slaughtered innocents, the raging Herod, Joseph and Mary fleeing into Egypt; and with a mixture of tears and joy she cried: ‘Hail Bethlehem, house of bread, wherein was born that Bread that came down from heaven.” — editor's note: Joh. vi. 51.
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Tertullian
““My soul,” says He, “is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death;” and “the bread that I will give is my flesh, (which I will give) for the life of the world.”” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“Now, just before (the passage in hand), He had declared His flesh to be “the bread which cometh down from heaven,” impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary food the memory of their forefathers, who had preferred the bread and flesh of Egypt to their divine calling.” — editor's note: John vi. 51.
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Basil the Great
“The manna is a type of the living bread that came down from heaven; and the serpent on the standard, of the passion of salvation accomplished by means of the cross, wherefore they who even looked thereon were preserved.” — editor's note: John vi. 49, 51.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“There is nothing but Jesus Christ: not Son of Man, as He generally called Himself: not Son of God, as He often declared Himself: not the living bread which cometh down from Heaven, as He repeated to the scandal of many.” — editor's note: St. John vi. 51.
Read the whole comment“Again the Lord Himself revealing this mystery of His birth, speaks thus: I am the living bread Who have descended from Heaven: if any one shall eat of My bread he shall live for ever: calling Himself the Bread since He is the origin of His own body.” — editor's note: St. John vi. 51.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”” — editor's note: John vi. 32, 33, 51.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord wishes to reveal what He is; Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, hath everlasting life. As if He said; He that believeth on Me hath Me: but what is it to have Me? It is to have eternal…
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The multitude being urgent for bodily food, and reminding Him of that which was given to their fathers, He tells them that the manna was only a type of that spiritual food which was now to be tasted in reality, I am…
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He calls Himself the bread of life, because He constitutes one life, both present, and to come.
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And because they had taunted Him with the manna, He adds, Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. Your fathers they are, for ye are like them; murmuring sons of murmuring fathers. For in nothing…
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The addition, In the wilderness, is not put in without meaning, but to remind them how short a time the manna lasted; only till the entrance into the land of promise. And because the bread which Christ gave seemed…
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This was the bread the manna typified, this was the bread the altar typified. Both the one and the other were sacraments, differing in symbol, alike in the thing signified. Hear the Apostle, They did all eat the same…
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He then gives them a strong reason for believing that they were given for higher privileges than their fathers. Their fathers eat manna and were dead; whereas of this bread He says, that a man may eat thereof, and…
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But are we, who eat the bread that cometh down from heaven, relieved from death? From visible and carnal death, the death of the body, we are not: we shall die, even as they died. But from spiritual death which their…
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Therefore I say, He that eateth this bread, dieth not: I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
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By becoming incarnate, He was not then first man, and afterwards assumed Divinity, as Nestorius fables.
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was The manna too came down from heaven; but the manna was shadow, this is substance.
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But men must be quickened by my life: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live, not only now by faith and righteousness, but for ever.
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Our Lord pronounces Himself to be bread, not only in respect of that Divinity, which feeds all things, but also in respect of that human nature, which was assumed by the Word of God: And the bread, He says, that I…
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This bread our Lord then gave, when He delivered to His disciple the mystery of His Body and Blood, and offered Himself to God the Father on the altar of the cross. For the life of the world, i. e. not for the…
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Which I shall give: this shews His power; for it shews that He was not crucified as a servant, in subjection to the Father, but of his own accord; for though He is said to have been given up by the Father, yet He…
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But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of Christ, if they labour to be the body of Christ. And they become the body of Christ, if they study to live by…
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Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
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Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in Letters Letter 131.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:51 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
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Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
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Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.5.
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Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 6:11 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.5.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.