“I am the Bread of Life,” says Jesus. “Do not work for food that spoils ... work for food that lasts for eternal life.” I invite you to consider three questions: To whom were these words spoken? Who spoke them? What do they mean?

First, to whom were these words spoken? They were spoken to the people whom Jesus fed the day before, the 5,000 who ate so generously from the little boy’s lunch bag.

A quick mental walk through some of the events just prior to this will get us in perspective:

One, it was the spring season, the Passover Season, the festival of liberation, the celebration of national freedom. The whole area was mushrooming with crowds and, as always, these crowds were demanding.

I have compared this to the most recent national political conventions held in Atlanta and New Orlea…