Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
      b.  For  his own  comfort and encouragement:  Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious.  The election  has obtained,  and shall though multitudes be  blinded,  Romans 11:7. Though he lose many of his  creatures,  yet none of his  charge: All that the Father gives him shall come to him  notwithstanding. Here we have, (a.) The election described:  All that the father giveth me,  pan ho didosi—every thing  which the Father  giveth to me;  the persons of the elect, and all that belongs to them; all their services, all their interests. As all that he has is  theirs,  so all that they have is  his,  and he speaks of them as his all: they were given him in full recompense of his undertaking. Not only all persons, but all things, are gathered together in Christ (; Ephesians 1:10) and reconciled,  Colossians 1:20. The giving of the chosen remnant to Christ is spoken of (John 6:39) as a thing  done;  he  hath given  them. Here it is spoken of as a thing  in the doing;  he  giveth them;  because,  when the first begotten was brought into the world,  it should seem, there was a renewal of the grant; see  ; Hebrews 10:5, &c. God was now about to  give him the heathen for his inheritance  (Psalms 2:8), to put him in possession of  the desolate heritages  (; Isaiah 49:8), to  divide him a portion with the great,  Isaiah 53:12. And though the Jews, who  saw  him,  believed not  on him, yet these (saith he) shall  come to me;  the other sheep, which are not of this fold, shall be  brought,  ; John 10:15-16. See  Acts 13:45-48. (b.) The effect of it secured:  They shall come to me.  This is not in the nature of a  promise,  but a  prediction,  that as many as were in the counsel of God ordained to life shall be brought to life by being brought to Christ. They are  scattered,  are mingled among the nations, yet none of them shall be forgotten; not a grain of God's corn shall be lost, as is promised,  ; Amos 9:9. They are by nature  alienated  from Christ, and averse to him, and yet  they shall come.  As God's omniscience is engaged for the finding of them all out, so is his omnipotence for the bringing of them all in. Not, They shall be  driven,  to me, but, They shall come freely, shall be made  willing.