Cheryl Schatz

Hi Peter, I can agree with you that the words of truth that Jesus gave were spiritual and they were life and they showed who believed Jesus and who were willing to continue to hear words of life because those ones stayed. The others were there for a free meal and they were not interested in spiritual words that brought spiritual life. However, I disagree that Jesus did not want some people to follow Him. I think this is going beyond the text and beyond what Jesus said. If I am wrong I am willing to be corrected. You wrote: I think they did what He wanted them to do. I think that it is clear that He wanted them all to eat of the spiritual food that was given to them as He said that His Father gives them the true bread out of heaven which was Himself. John 6:32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. It would be inconsistent for Jesus to purposely drive away people from Himself when He came to do the Father’s will and the Father’s will was that Jesus had been given out of heaven for those unbelievers.