ACC ~ John 6 v25

THE CROWD FORGETS ABOUT MAKING JESUS KING

CHRYSOSTOM: After such a great miracle, the crowd does not ask Jesus how he had crossed over or how he had arrived there. In fact, they do not seem to be concerned about it at all. They ask him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” but what they are really asking is “How did you get here?” And see how shallow they are. After noting that he was “that prophet” and trying to take him by force to make him king, they do nothing of the sort when they finally do find him. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 43.1-2. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:156**.

BREAD FOR THE SOUL

AUGUSTINE: So he who had fled to the mountain mixes and converses with the multitude. Only a little while before they would have kept him and made him king…. But after the sacrament of the miracle, he begins to teach… and fills their souls with his word whose bodies he had just satisfied with bread—provided they take it in. And if they do not, let that be taken up which they do not receive so that the fragments may not be lost. TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 25.9-10. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 7:163**.