John 6 (Part 4) Preparing your Heart (John 6:41-44)

 John 6 (Part 4) 
The Jews Grumbled
John 6:41-51

John 6:33, The Jews Grumbled
Because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
This is the 2nd “Truly, truly” statement of last week. The first one was were He called them out on wrong internal motives.

Two possible directions you can take in your personal study here to dive into this text is,

• one to refresh you mind with the OT story of feeding of the mana in Exodus 16.
• Another is to consider the Jews logical source of reason for their grumbling spelled out in John 6:42, Do we not know His parents?

How do you explain the reality of Jesus coming from heaven if He has earthly parents?

If you would have been in that crowd and your ears were hearing these things in that cultural context, how would you have processed these words. What would of helped you through this logical challenging dialogue? 

Exodus 16:2 
One parallel you see in our text this week is were the Jews Grumble about Jesus’ proclamation of who He was because it defied logic was in Exodus 16:2, where their fathers also grumbled against Moses in the wilderness because the logic of God’s deliverance in that day was also “hard to listen to” John 6:60.