John 6:48

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,.... Namely, that of which he had spoken Joh 6:32, meaning himself:

that a man may eat thereof, and not die; for this heavenly bread is soul…

I am that bread of life - My doctrines and the benefits of my mediation are that real support of spiritual life of which the manna in the wilderness was the faint emblem. See Joh 6:32-33.

I am that bread of life - I alone afford, by my doctrine and Spirit, that nourishment by which the soul is saved unto life eternal.

Whether this conference was with the Capernaites, in whose synagogue Christ now was, or with those who came from the other side of the sea, is not certain nor material; however, it is an instance of…

that bread of life Better, the Bread of life. Comp. Joh 6:6; Joh 1:21; Joh 1:25; Joh 6:14, where the same exaggerated translation of the Greek article occurs.