约六32~33　……乃是我父把那从天上来的真粮赐给你们。因为神的粮，就是那从天上降下来赐生命给世人的。

　　　　48　　我就是生命的粮。

　　　　57　　活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着，照样，那吃我的人，也要因我活着。

　　在约翰六章五十七节的“因”含示有一个因素。“凭”这个字含示凭借，而不是因素。凭基督而行，含示基督是生活行事的凭借，正如手杖是用来行路的一样。因基督而行，指明祂是我们生活行事的因素。……我们不是凭基督活着，以基督为凭借；我们乃是因基督活着，以基督为我们活着的因素。我们所吃的食物不是一种凭借，乃是供应的因素。我们不是凭食物而活，乃是因食物而活。食物供应我们，使我们能因其供应而活。用手杖作凭借走路，不需要吃手杖；但因食物而活，必须吃食物。不吃食物，食物就不能成为我们活着的因素。我们在基督的复活里活基督，我们也因着吃基督而活基督。吃把一个因素带到我们这人里面。当我们早晨吃了丰美的早餐，我们所得的滋养就给我们力量。基督加力的元素是一种供应，一种因素，使我们能活基督（生命的经历与长大，二○至二一页）。

　　John 6:32-33 …My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

　　48 I am the bread of life.

　　57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

　　In John 6:57 the word because implies that there is a factor. The word by (used in the KJV), however, indicates an instrument, not a factor. To walk by Christ implies that Christ is the instrument for walking, as a cane is used for walking. To walk because of Him indicates that He is the factor of our walking. We do not live by Christ, taking Christ as our instrument; rather, we live because of Christ, taking Christ as a factor of our living. The food that we eat is not an instrument but a supplying factor. We live not by food but because of the food. Food supplies us so that we can live because of its supply. In using a cane as an instrument to walk, there is no need to eat the cane, but to live because of food, we must eat the food. Without eating, food cannot become a factor of our living. We live Christ in His resurrection, and we live Christ by eating Him. Eating brings in a factor to our being. When we eat a good breakfast in the morning, the nourishment we receive energizes us. The energizing element of Christ is a supply, a factor, for us to live Christ. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 3,”The Experience and Growth in Life,” pp. 17-18)

　　约翰六章很独特，对于主耶稣是生命的粮说了许多细节。……作为生命的粮来说，祂是从天上降下来的粮（41、50~51、58），是神的粮（33），是活粮（51），是真粮（32）。这里主作我们的粮有五个特征：属天的粮、神的粮、生命的粮、活粮、

　　真粮。就着从天上降下来的粮而言，祂是属天的粮。就着神的粮而言，祂是属神的，是神所差遣的，并且与神同在。就着生命的粮而言，祂是那有永远生命、有“奏厄”（zoe）的粮。就着活粮而言，祂是活的。生命的粮指粮的性质是生命；活粮指粮的情形是活的。就着真粮而言，基督是真理或实际的粮。基督是真实的、实际的。祂是真食物，其他种类的食物都不过是祂这真食物的影儿。我们天天摄取的物质食物，乃是基督的影儿。我们每天所吃的食物，其实际乃是耶稣基督。基督是神所差来生命的真粮，将永远的生命带给我们。我们都需要基督作我们生命的粮。……今天这粮不仅仅是成为肉体、钉十字架、复活、升天的基督，更是成了赐生命之灵的基督。

　　在六十三节主耶稣说，“赐人生命的乃是灵，肉是无益的；我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。”……这里主解释说，祂所要赐给我们吃的，不是祂物质身体的肉；肉体的肉是无益的。主所赐给我们的，乃是赐人生命的灵。……这里的“话”是随着上文的“灵”。灵是活的、实际的，但相当奥秘，摸不着，且很难领会。然而，主的话是具体的。首先主指明，为着赐人生命，祂要成为那灵。然后祂说，祂所说的话就是灵，就是生命。这指明祂所说的话，乃是赐生命之灵的具体化。祂现今在复活里是赐生命的灵，而这灵是具体化于祂的话。我们运用灵来接受祂的话，就接受了是生命的那灵（CWWL一九八二年第二册，二六八至二六九、二七七、二七六页）。

　　参读：约翰著作中帐幕和祭物的应验，第十八至十九篇；生命的经历与长大，第三篇。

　　John 6 is unique in giving many details concerning the Lord Jesus as the bread of life…. As the bread of life [vv. 35, 48], He is the bread that came down out of heaven (vv. 41, 50, 51, 58), He is the bread of God (v. 33), He is the living bread (v. 51), and He is the true bread (v. 32). Here we have five characteristics of the Lord as our bread: the heavenly bread, the bread of God, the bread of life, the living bread, and the true bread. As the bread that came down out of heaven, He is the heavenly bread. As the bread of God, He is of God, He was sent by God, and He was with God. As the bread of life, He is the bread with eternal life, with zoe. As the living bread, He is living. The bread of life refers to the nature of the bread, which is life; the living bread refers to the condition of the bread, which is living. As the true bread, Christ is the bread of truth, or reality. Christ is true, real. He is the true food, and all other kinds of food are merely shadows of Him as the real food. The physical food that we take in every day is a shadow of Christ. The reality of the food we eat daily is Jesus Christ. Christ is the true bread of life sent by God to bring us eternal life. We all need Christ to be the bread of life to us. Today this bread is not merely the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ but the Christ who has become the life-giving Spirit.

　　In John 6:63 the Lord Jesus said,”It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”…Here the Lord explained that what He would give us to eat is not the meat of His physical body; the meat, which is the flesh, profits nothing. What the Lord gives us is the Spirit who gives life. Here the”words” follow the Spirit. The Spirit is living and real but rather mysterious, intangible, and difficult for us to apprehend. However, the Lord's words are substantial. First, the Lord indicated that for giving life He would become the Spirit. Then He said that the words He speaks are spirit and life. This indicates that His spoken words are the embodiment of the life-giving Spirit. He is now the life-giving Spirit in resurrection, and the Spirit is embodied in His words. When we receive His words by exercising our spirit, we receive the Spirit who is life. (CWWL, 1982, vol. 2,”The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” pp. 209, 216, 215)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2,”The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” chs. 18-19; CWWL, 1989, vol. 3,”The Experience and Growth in Life,” ch. 3