“I am that bread of life.” “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.” Joh 6:48,54,63; 4:23

“This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried [...] and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” “But there are some of you that believe not.” Joh 6:60; Dan 12:10; Joh 6:64

Just like Chapter I, “A voice from Heaven promised at the end”, which is an introduction to the four chapters that follow it, this chapter also represents a start in the topic of the following four. The verse “This is a hard saying” is the very essence of what is written further on, since it is a petitioning of God, the Bread of Life, to the chosen ones who are the only ones who will be able to receive and understand His words.

The Holy Scriptures say that God is only One, to Whom the prophets and people in the olden times addressed in a many ways, among which Elohim (The Godhead), but in the previous chapters there has been repeatedly spoken about the Godhead manifesting through three Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It may be difficult to understand this threefold manifestation whereas it is only One. This is a mystery, but the Holy Scriptures clarify this manifestation of a single God by three Persons. Thus, Iahve by the prophet Isaiah says: “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. For He said, Surely they are my people, children [therefore, He is Father] that will not lie: so He was their Saviour. In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them [through His Son] […]; But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit: therefore he [Elohim, the Godhead] was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them” (Isaiah 63:7 – 10). Through the work of salvation of these Three who are One, these words with eternal consequences will be fulfilled:

“I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”

Isa 43:11

Jesus Christ came to testify through His life about the Father, since “no man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him” (John 1:18). Everything he did and said was the manifestation of a work of the Father whom He represented. The miracles which he performed, especially the great wonder of redemption was not performed in His own power, but in the Name of the Father who had sent Him.

If until the moment He became flesh (through Mary), “all things were made by Him” (John 1:3), since we are talking about His dispensation (by which we are not to understand the exclusion of the other Persons, but a way of working the salvation of the people which was specific to that period of time, a way which has taken a different shape today), from the moment when He became flesh, the picture has changed (“the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works” – John 14:10), the Father’s dispensation commences and, after He departed form the world, the situation was to change again, when the Comforter would take over the main responsibility of the work, but not in the absence of the cooperation with the Father and the Son, though: ^{| a}

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:” “he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”

Joh 15:26; 16:13-15

As the Three who have intervened along the history of this world are One, by the same token Their work manifested in three ways is one. One work and one God.

In the old times, Israel was called upon to be the light of the world and, by the services of the tabernacle, would speak about the Salvation realized by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, salvation which He was to work at a certain point in the future, as the Lamb of God. Jesus Christ was called to be a Light, the Light of the World sent by the Father, and His sacrifice on Golgotha was working the salvation symbolized by the daily sacrifice; we, His Church, have been called upon to be a light in the midst of men through the Holy Spirit and to turn our contemporaries' attention to the past, to the great Sacrifice on Golgotha; three Persons are doing the three works which are one, as the Three are One.

This division into dispensations helps us more in our understanding of those passages of His Word which are written as typology; people and/or works of God in the past, through His power are re-edited today under a different form, but in the same, unchanged God's method of work.

We live in the Holy Spirit's dispensation in which by typology (which is specific to the Old Testament) or parables (specific to the Gospels) God speaks His whole truth, as a fulfillment of His work according to which “He shall receive of Mine and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you […] These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you. For the Father Himself loveth you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father” (John 16:13-15,25-28).