Those that opposed Jesus was always following
on the edges of the crowds to see and hear what
He was doing. They got angry as He was trying
to teach them of His purpose of coming.

They exchanged question like "Why was Jesus
saying that He came down from heaven?"; "Why
does He call Himself the Bread of Life?"; "Do we
not know Joseph His father, and His mother
Mary, and was not this man a mere carpenter?"
(Mark 6:3; John 6:41-42

Jesus didn't answer their question about His
supernatural birth and never argue the fact of
His divinity.

Jesus was teaching them that faith was much
deeper than signs and wonders. They needed
a bread other than the manna in the wilderness.
They had to have the bread of life that was sent
from heaven.

They said, "Lord evermore give us this bread,"
yet they were still thinking materially. They
were thinking of this bread, like the woman at
the well was thinking of the water.

And Jesus said unto them, "I am the bread of life:
he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he
that believeth on me shall never thirst."
John 6:35

They had brought up Nehemiah 9:15 but hadn't
seen how little spiritual good the earthly manna
had done the people of Israel. The people of that
day were proud, disobedient, hardening their
hearts, made a molten image, and slew the
prophets. (Nehemiah 9:16-26)

So they were given over to their enemies. And
all the generations after them did the same thing.
(Nehemiah 9:28)

That is why the Israelites were under the rule
of the Romans. They had taken the promise but
overlooked the conditions.

The disciples and others were willing to go along
with Jesus' claim that He was the true manna.

The Jewish nation, according to tradition, held
that if He was the real Messiah, He would better
them, feed them with finest from heaven, besides
the regular manna like Moses did.

They asked, "What sign shewest thou then, that
we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou
work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert;
as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven
to eat" John 6:30-31

The people hearing Jesus were not satisfied. To
them it was the most important issue. Moses
had given them bread from heaven. Jesus also
had proven that He had the power to feed them
supernaturally. They believed that their question
was based on scripture.

The pot of manna and the grape clusters were
carved on the synagogue. To the Jews the most
important thing in life was plenty of bread.

The people were embarrassed because Jesus had
read their hearts. So they asked, "What are we
to do that we may work the works of God?"

Jesus told them that the work of God was to believe
on Him. whom God hath sent.

The basis of Christianity is salvation through faith
in Christ. The work of redemption is accomplished
by simple faith in Christ's finished work.

Jesus was right up front with them.
John 6:26-27
"Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw
the miracles, but because ye did eat of the
loaves, and were filled.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but
for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
for him hath God the Father sealed."

People are taken with their present physical
needs with complete disregard of the future.

There was a service in the synagogue that same
day (John 6:59). Jairus, whose daughter He had
raised from the dead, had charge of the synagogue
and would have given Jesus freedom to preach.

Jesus had led the people there where He could
preach and teach them. There was a custom
where they could ask questions in the services.

He had to remove their expectation that He had
come to be an earthly king and to set up a
temperary kingdom; a false idea they had of His
mission.

Really the people had already decided that Jesus
was the Messiah. The miracle of the loaves and
fishes had fully convinced them of that. But they
were, of course, were thinking of a different kind
of Messiah. One that would feed them with manna
like Moses had. (John 6:30-31). The miracle
of them being feed by Him the day before made
that clear.

But they wondered why He had evaded them
by going up into the mountain; because they
were ready to make Him king. They were
wanting to get an answer from Him.

Not everyone who got in on the miracle of the
loaves and fishes returned to their homes. Some
hung around and slept over night near by hoping
to follow Jesus again the next day. But when they
got up in the morning, waited but he was not to
be found.

Of course, they knew nothing of what happened
on the sea during the night. So then they decided
to return to Capernaum and found that Jesus
was already there. They wondered how he got
there. "Rabbi, when comest thou hither?" He
did't tell them of the miracle on the water because
He did not want to get their loyalty based on miracles.

There have been ridiculous attempts by some to
explain away what happened in some of these
miracles in the natural.

They say that this storm beat against the boat
which moved it quickly to land and that the
disciples actually saw Jesus walking on the shore,
not on the water.

The ministry of Jesus was a series of supernatural
occurances and no one can do away with His
miracles without doing away with Him.

Some wonder if occurances like these will happen
in these last day. No doubt, but they seemed rare
even in Bible days. But possibly more comman
than we know.

Because we do know John wrote in his book in 21:25:
"This is the disciple which testifieth of these things,
and wrote these things: and we know that his
testimony is true.
And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, the which, if they should be written every one,
I suppose that even the world itself could not
contain the books that should be written. Amen.