Joh 5:38-6:71 chiastic structure:
1a) Joh 5:38-47, He whom the Father sent, they did not believe;
1a) Joh 5:38, You do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, you do not believe;
1b) Joh 5:39, You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life/ they testify of Me;
1c) Joh 5:40, But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life;
1d.1) Joh 5:41, I do not receive honor from men;
1d.2) Joh 5:42, You do not have the love of God in you;
central axis) Joh 5:43, “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive;”
2d.1) Joh 5:44a, How can you believe, who receive honor from one another;
2d.2) Joh 5:44b, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?
2c) Joh 5:45, I shall not accuse you to the Father; but Moses, in whom you trust;
2b) Joh 5:46, For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me;
2a) Joh 5:47, But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?
1b) Joh 6:1-21, Jesus gave the multitude who followed Him bread from heaven;
1a) Joh 6:1, After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias;
1b.1) Joh 6:2, A great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased;
1b.2) Joh 6:3, And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples;
central axis) Joh 6:4-13, Jesus fed five thousand men with five loaves + two fish;
2b.1) Joh 6:14, The men, when they saw this sign, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world;”
2b.2) Joh 6:15, When Jesus perceived that they would make Him king by force, He departed to the mountain by Himself;
2a) Joh 6:16-21, Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee out to His disciples in the boat;
1c) Joh 6:22-24, The next day the people saw that Jesus + His disciples had gone/ they came to Capernaum, seeking Him;
central axis) Joh 6:25, And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You come here?”
2c) Joh 6:26, Jesus: You seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled;
2b) 6:27-59, Jesus, the true bread from heaven which the Father sent, gives everlasting life;
1a) Joh 6:27-34, The true bread which comes down from heaven is not the manna the fathers ate;
1a) Joh 6:27a, Do not labor for the food which perishes;
1b) Joh 6:27b, But for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him;
1c) Joh 6:28, They said to Him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?
central axis) Joh 6:29, Jesus answered: “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent;”
2c) Joh 6:30, They said to Him: What sign will You perform that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?
2b) Joh 6:31-33, The manna in the desert not the true bread from heaven, but He who comes down from heaven + gives life to the world;
2a) Joh 6:34, They said to Him: Lord, give us this bread always;
1b) Joh 6:35a, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life;
1c) Joh 6: 35b, He who comes to Me shall never hunger + he who believes in Me shall never thirst;
1d) Joh 6:36, But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe;
1e) Joh 6:37-40, All the Father gives Me will come to Me/ I will raise them up at the last day;
1f) Joh 6:41-42a, The Jews complained about Him: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?;
central axis) Joh 6:42b, How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
2f) Joh 6:43, Jesus answered: Do not murmur among yourselves;
2e) Joh 6:44-45, No one came come to Me unless the Father draws him/ I will raise him up at the last day;
2d) Joh 6:46, Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father;
2c) Joh 6:47, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life;
2b) Joh 6:48, I am the bread of life;.
2a) Joh 6:49-59, The fathers ate the manna and died/ The true bread which comes down from heaven;
1a.1) Joh 6:49-51a, Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead/ This is the bread which comes down from heaven;
1a.2) Joh 6:51b, If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever;
1b) Joh 6:51c, And the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world;
central axis) Joh 6:52, The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”
2b) Joh 6:53-57, The flesh + blood of the Son of Man food + drink indeed to eternal life;
1a) Joh 6:53, Jesus: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man + drink His blood, you have no life in you;
1b) Joh 6:54a, Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life;
central axis) Joh 6:54b, And I will raise him up at the last day;
2b) Joh 6:55, For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed;
2a) Joh 6:56-57, He who eats My flesh + drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him/ he who feeds on Me will live because of Me;
2a.1) Joh 6:58a, This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead;
2a.2) Joh 6:58b-59, He who eats this bread will live forever/ He taught these things in the synagogue at Capernaum;
2a) Joh 6:60-71, Some of His disciples left Him because of the hard saying/ they believed Him no longer.
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