6:32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, 1 it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.
6:41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus 3 began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
1 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
2 tn Or “Lord.” The Greek κύριος (kurios) means both “Sir” and “Lord.” In this passage it is not at all clear at this point that the crowd is acknowledging Jesus as Lord. More likely this is simply a form of polite address (“sir”).
3 tn Grk “Then the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” BT 26 [1975]: 401-9.) Here the translation restricts the phrase to those Jews who were hostile to Jesus (cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e.β), since the “crowd” mentioned in 6:22-24 was almost all Jewish (as suggested by their addressing Jesus as “Rabbi” (6:25). Likewise, the designation “Judeans” does not fit here because the location is Galilee rather than Judea.
4 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
5 tc Most witnesses (A C2 D Ψ Ë1,13 33 Ï lat and other versions) have “in me” (εἰς ἐμέ, eis eme) here, while the Sinaitic and Curetonian Syriac versions read “in God.” These clarifying readings are predictable variants, being motivated by the scribal tendency toward greater explicitness. That the earliest and best witnesses (Ì66,75vid א B C* L T W Θ 892 pc) lack any object is solid testimony to the shorter text’s authenticity.
6 tn Compare John 6:40.
7 tn That is, “the bread that produces (eternal) life.”
8 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
9 tn Or “Here.”
10 tn Grk “someone” (τις, tis).
11 tn Grk “And the bread.”