John Gill's Exposition on John 6:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then those men, etc.] The five thousand men, who had been fed with the loaves and fishes: when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did; in feeding so many of them, with so small a quantity of food; in multiplying the provision in such a prodigious manner, that after they had eaten to the full, so many baskets of fragments were taken up: said, this is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world; meaning that prophet, that Moses spoke of, in (<051815>Deuteronomy 18:15); for the ancient Jews understood this passage of the Messiah, though the modern ones apply it to others; (see Gill on “<440322>Acts 3:22”). And these men concluded that Jesus was that prophet, or the true Messiah, from the miracle he wrought; in which he appeared, not only to be like to Moses, but greater than he.

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