Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15
Psalm 78:3-4, 23-24, 25,
Ephesians 4:17, 20-24
John 6:24-35
They found him on the other side of the sea, v. 25 .
Christ will be found of those that seek Him, first or last; and it is worth while to cross a sea, to go from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth, to seek Christ, if we may but find Him at last.
"Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
you are looking for me not because you saw signs
but because you ate the loaves and were filled. "
The Savior reveals to them the true motives which induced them to seek him. Not because He taught them, but because He fed them; not for Love, but for loaves. People are more interested for earthly bread, than anxious concerning food for their souls .
Bible text continue : "So they said to him,
“What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?
What can you do?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:
He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
So Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;
my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.”
Jesus reveals that God, even his Father, who gave their fathers that food from heaven to support their natural lives, now gave them the true Bread for the salvation of their souls.
Coming to Jesus, and believing on Him, signify the same.
Christ shows that He is the true Bread; He is to the soul what bread is to the body, nourishes and supports the spiritual life.
He is the Bread of God.
Bread which the Father gives, which He has made to be the food of our souls.
Bread nourishes only by the powers of a living body; but Christ is Himself living Bread, and nourishes by His own power.
The doctrine of Christ crucified is now as strengthening and comforting to a believer as ever it was.
He is the Bread which came down from Heaven.
That denotes the Divinity of Christ's person and His authority; also, the Divine origin of all the good which flows to us through Him.
May we with understanding and earnestness say, Lord, evermore give us this Bread.