“Jesus, the incarnate God, the substance of the Father come down from Heaven to teach, to feed, and to save.” It was hard for Jesus’ own disciples to believe, let alone those who knew his family, grew up with him, taught beside him, saw him as a fellow rabbi and Jew. Now Jesus begins to say some pretty unbelievable things, at least unbelievable to the rational mind, the Jewish mind, anyone’s mind!

As we traverse through about 5 weeks of clips in this grand dialogue about Jesus as the Bread of Life, we recognize that the “Bread” is a metaphor for the incarnation, God manifested in human form as Jesus, Son of the Father, come down from heaven for the benefit, sustenance, and saving of God’s people from their unfulfilled spiritual hunger deficit. Ever since humankind thought to go without God …