This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
Christ let them question Him freely, no small condescension. The wise teacher listens swiftly and turns even foolish questions toward what profits. These Galileans asking "What shall we do?" show a teachable mind, unlike the Judean critics who came only to cavil. He answers the sincere request, not the impertinent quibble.
AI summary
Commenting on John 6:28-59
Verse 58. This is that bread, &c. This is the true bread that came down. The word "that" should not be in the translation. Shall live for ever. Not on the earth, but in the enjoyments of a better world. (v) "not as your fathers" .
This is that bread, &c.--a sort of summing up of the whole discourse, on which let this one further remark suffice--that as our Lord, instead of softening down His figurative sublimities, or even putting them in naked phraseology, leaves the great truths of His Person and Office, and our participation of Him and it, enshrined for all time in those glorious forms of speech, so...