Johannes 6:62

62 Wat zou het dan zijn, zo gij de Zoon des mensen zaagt opvaren, daar Hij te voren was?

Johannes 6:62 Meaning and Commentary

John 6:62

[What] and if ye shall see the son of man
Meaning himself then in a state of humiliation, and was taken for a mere man, though the true Messiah, and Son of God:

ascend up where he was before?
for Christ was, he existed before his incarnation, and he was in heaven before; not in his human nature, but as the word and Son of God: and he intimates, that when he had done his work, and the will of his Father, for which he came down from heaven, by the assumption of the human nature, he should ascend up thither again; and which would be seen, as it was, by his apostles; and which would prove that he came down from heaven, as he had asserted; see ( Ephesians 4:9 Ephesians 4:10 ) ; and that his flesh and blood were not to be eaten in a corporeal sense; in which sense they understood him: and he hereby suggests, that if it was difficult to receive, and hard to be understood, and was surprising and incredible, that he should come down from heaven, as bread, to be eat and fed upon; it would be much more so to them to be told, that he who was in so mean and lowly a form, should ascend up into heaven.

Johannes 6:62 In-Context

60 Velen dan van Zijn discipelen, dit horende, zeiden: Deze rede is hard; wie kan dezelve horen?

61 Jezus nu, wetende bij Zichzelven, dat Zijn discipelen daarover murmureerden, zeide tot hen: Ergert ulieden dit?

62 Wat zou het dan zijn, zo gij de Zoon des mensen zaagt opvaren, daar Hij te voren was?

63 De Geest is het, Die levend maakt; het vlees is niet nut. De woorden, die Ik tot u spreek, zijn geest en zijn leven.

64 Maar er zijn sommigen van ulieden, die niet geloven. Want Jezus wist van den beginne, wie zij waren, die niet geloofden, en wie hij was, die Hem verraden zou.