Discovery BoxJohn 6:51 
Context6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread 1 that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:58
Context6:58 This 2 is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors 3 ate, but then later died. 4 The one who eats 5 this bread will live forever.”
John 12:34
Context12:34 Then the crowd responded, 6 “We have heard from the law that the Christ 7 will remain forever. 8 How 9 can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
1 tn Grk “And the bread.”
2 tn Or “This one.”
3 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
4 tn Grk “This is the bread that came down from heaven, not just like your ancestors ate and died.” The cryptic Greek expression has been filled out in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Or “who chews.” On the alternation between ἐσθίω (esqiw, “eat,” v. 53) and τρώγω (trwgw, “eats,” vv. 54, 56, 58; “consumes,” v. 57) see the note on “eats” in v. 54.
6 tn Grk “Then the crowd answered him.”
7 tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).
sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.
8 tn Probably an allusion to Ps 89:35-37. It is difficult to pinpoint the passage in the Mosaic law to which the crowd refers. The ones most often suggested are Ps 89:36-37, Ps 110:4, Isa 9:7, Ezek 37:25, and Dan 7:14. None of these passages are in the Pentateuch per se, but “law” could in common usage refer to the entire OT (compare Jesus’ use in John 10:34). Of the passages mentioned, Ps 89:36-37 is the most likely candidate. This verse speaks of David’s “seed” remaining forever. Later in the same psalm, v. 51 speaks of the “anointed” (Messiah), and the psalm was interpreted messianically in both the NT (Acts 13:22, Rev 1:5, 3:14) and in the rabbinic literature (Genesis Rabbah 97).
9 tn Grk “And how”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.
