Seeking Jesus – but not actually

And after their bellies were full from the best free feed they ever had, Jesus disappeared from where they were and they couldn’t figure it out so they followed the boat the disciples had gone in coz they figured He might do more amazing stuff for them.

When they asked how He got to the spot they found Him, He flipped the question aside since they weren’t really wanting to know or understand the why of the miracle they’d just seen – He knew they just just wanted more immediate wants/needs looked after rather than being particularly bothered about His being the Messiah and all that.

Jesus said (sorta) “Look here ya bunch of dweebs. I’m not yer fairy godmother come to grant wishes. You’re missing a very obvious point. Your eyes are so full of self, you don’t even know you only see what you can get from Me instead of Who I Am. Stop the rot and nonsense! Who do ya think yer kidding? Not me! Yes I fed you. You eat. You poop. But I am Someone Who Will Never Perish and can be that for you if you believe in me”

The dweebs didn’t hear Him in their hearts and though the crowd of 30oddthousanddweebs just got fed by a miracle that very same day – they wanted another show and they tried to make their request sound spiritual. But that was just more evidence of their dweebishness since you can’t out-Spiritual Jesus nor hide from His knowledge of your motives. It can’t go well, and He can’t be manipulated.

What dweebs everywhere get to do is respond if bad motives get light shone on them and Life in the Saviour and Son when we believe.

John-ish 6:26-70

The rest of what He said it too important for me to mess with so you should read it verbatim. It all is really – so read the lot and see if what I extracted is consistent with the message. There is always more…

John 6:41 Therefore the * Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”
43 Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me — 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.
47 “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
52 At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54 Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day, 55 because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. 56 The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 60 Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”
61 Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this * offend you? 62 Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? 63 The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64 But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.) 65 He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”
66 From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him. 67 Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you? ”
68 Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God! ”
70 Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil! ” 71 He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.