To this question Jesus meekly answered: "Moses did not give you the bread of heaven, of which I now speak; the manna which God gave to your fathers through Moses nourished only their bodies; But I speak of that bread of heaven which nourishes the soul and prepares it for eternal life; This is the bread which my Father now giveth you, having sent me to you;

for the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Constantly in need of bread to maintain the vital activity of his body, a person cannot do without the nourishment of his soul, without spiritual food, if he does not want to be a beast-like creature, if he strives for self-perfection. The best souls of the ancient world languished in a vain search for truth, truth, thirsted to know the Unknown God; Yes, they languished, since the failure to satisfy the needs of the spirit is no less painful than the starvation of the body, and the answer to these needs is the spiritual food without which a person cannot live consciously. This answer was brought by Christ from God or, as they say, from heaven. This Word is the bread from heaven of which Christ now speaks, and this Word is Himself.

The impatient listeners, not understanding what kind of bread Jesus is talking about, and believing that the bread He promised, which gives life to the world, will forever deliver them from the worries of obtaining food, interrupt His speech with the following request:

God! give us always such bread" (John 6:34).

Having already said that the manna nourished the Jews alone, and that the bread of God which He brought from heaven would give life to the whole world, Jesus, continuing the interrupted speech, said:

I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will never hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.