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Selected Verse: John 6:62 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 6:62 |
King James |
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
What and if ... - Jesus does not say that those who were then present would see him ascend, but he implies that he would ascend. They had taken offence because he said he came down from heaven. Instead of explaining that away, he proceeds to state another doctrine quite as offensive to them - that he would reascend to heaven. The apostles only were present at his ascension, Act 1:9. As Jesus was to ascend to heaven, it was clear that he could not have intended literally that they should eat his flesh. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
What and if ye shall see (ἐὰν οὐν θεωρῆτε)
The question is marked by an aposiopesis, i.e., a breaking off of the sentence and leaving the hearer to complete it for himself. Literally, if then ye should behold, etc. - the completion would be, would not this still more cause you to stumble?
Ascend (ἀναβαίνοντα)
Rev., properly, renders the participle, ascending.
I speak (λαλῶ)
But the correct reading is λελάληκα, the perfect tense, I have spoken, or I have just spoken, referring to the preceding discourse. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
What if ye shall see the Son of man ascend where he was before? - How much more incredible will it then appear to you, that he should give you his flesh to eat? |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
If ye shall see the Son of man ascend - Ye need not be stumbled at what I say concerning eating my flesh and drinking my blood, for ye shall soon have the fullest proof that this is figuratively spoken, for I shall ascend with the same body with which I shall arise from the dead; therefore my flesh and blood, far from being eaten by men, shall not even be found among them. |
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.