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.
      a.  We shall  live by him  (; John 6:57):  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  We have here the series and order of the divine life. (a.) God is the  living Father,hath life in and of himself.  I am that I am  is his name for ever. (b.) Jesus Christ, as Mediator, lives  by the Father;  he has life  in himself  (John 5:26), but he has it of the Father. He that sent him, not only qualified him with that life which was necessary to so great an undertaking, but constituted him the treasury of divine life to us; he breathed into the second Adam the breath of spiritual lives, as into the first Adam the breath of natural lives. (c.) True believers receive this divine life by virtue of their union with Christ, which is inferred from the union between the Father and the Son, as it is compared to it,  ; John 17:21. For therefore  he that eateth me,  or feeds on me,  even he shall live by me:  those that live  upon  Christ shall live  by  him. The life of believers is  had from Christ  (John 1:16); it is  hid with Christ  (; Colossians 3:4), we live by  him  as the members by the head, the branches by the root; because he lives, we shall live also.