Geneva Bible Notes: John 6

John 6:1 (b) Tiberias, Bethsaida,, and Capernaum were on this side the lake, in respect of Galile: but it is here said that he went ouer, because there were diuers crikes & turnings, ouer the which men feried.

John 6:1 (a) Called the lake of Gennesareth.

John 6:7 (c) This summe amounteth to about fiue pounde sterling.

John 6:10 (!) Jesus fedeth fiue thousand men with fiue loaues & two fishes.

John 6:11 (d) Praier and thankesgiuing do sanctifie our meates wherewith we are nourished.

John 6:12 (e) The abundant store of Gods giftes oght not to make vs prodigal to waste them.

John 6:15 (f) Thei imagined an earthlie kingdome without the testimonie of Gods worde, so that by this meanes his spiritual kingdome shulde haue bene abolished.

John 6:15 (!) He departeth awaye, that thei shulde not make him King.

John 6:17 (g) Ouer a corner of the lake.

John 6:19 (h) Whereof eight make a mile.

John 6:22 (i) Wherefore it must nedes followe that Christ passed miraculously.

John 6:25 (k) This was not straight ouer the lake from side to side, but ouer a crike or arme of the lake, which saued muche labour to them that shulde haue gone about by land.

John 6:26 (!) He reproueth the fleshlie hearers of his worde.

John 6:27 (l) Which nourisheth & augmenteth our faith.

John 6:27 (m) For when he appointed him to be the Mediator, he set his marke & seale in him to be the onelie one to reconcil God & man together.

John 6:28 (n) Suche as be acceptable vnto God.

John 6:32 (o) He compareth Moses with the Father, & manna with Christ, who fedeth vs into euerlasting life, {1Cor. 10,3}

John 6:35 (p) He shal neuer want spiritual nourishment.

John 6:37 (q) God doeth regenerate his elect, & causeth them to obey the Gospel.

John 6:41 (!) The carnal are offended at him.

John 6:44 (r) That is, or beleue in me.

John 6:44 (s) By lightening his heart with his holie Spirit.

John 6:49 (t) Then there is no fode that can nourish our soules, but Jesus Christ.

John 6:51 (u) Which giue life to the worlde.

John 6:53 (x) Where Christ is not, there death reigneth.

John 6:56 (y) As our bodies are susteined with meat & drinke: so are our soules nourished with the bodie, and blood of Jesus Christ.

John 6:56 (x) To eat the flesh of Christ and drinke his blood, is to dwell in Christ and to haue Christ dwelling in vs.

John 6:60 (a) That is, vnderstand.

John 6:62 (b) He meaneth not that his humanitie descended from heauen: but he speaketh touching the vnion of bothe natures, attributing to the one that which apperteineth to the other.

John 6:63 (!) The flesh profiteth not.

John 6:63 (c) To wit, if it be separate from the Spirit, whereof it hathe the force: for it cometh of the power of the Spirit that the flesh of Christ giueth vs life.

John 6:68 (d) Then without Christ there is but death: for his worde onely leadeth vs to life.

John 6:70 (e) Althogh your nomber be smale, yet shal ye be diminished.