The Bread of Life (Part 4 of 5)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jesus’ followers happily witnessed miracles, but when He proclaimed, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” many angrily rebelled. How do people go from disputing Jesus’ claims to believing in Him? Hear the answer on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Kraud. |
| 0:03.0 | The crowd The crowds who followed Jesus were happy to witness miracles, but when he proclaimed, |
| 0:29.7 | I am the bread that came down from heaven, many opposed him and turned away in anger and confusion. |
| 0:36.3 | We still see similar responses when the Bible is taught. |
| 0:40.1 | So how do people go from doubting and disputing Jesus claims to eventually believing in him? |
| 0:46.6 | That's Alistair Begg's focus today on truth for life. |
| 0:55.7 | John chapter 6 and verse 41. |
| 1:01.3 | So the Jews grumbled about him because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. |
| 1:09.3 | They said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? |
| 1:16.8 | How does he now say, I have come down from heaven? Jesus answered them, do not grumble among yourselves. |
| 1:25.1 | No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise |
| 1:30.4 | him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught by God. |
| 1:38.3 | Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God. |
| 1:48.1 | He has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. |
| 1:56.5 | I am the bread of life. Your father's manna in the wilderness, and they died. |
| 2:02.9 | This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. |
| 2:08.9 | I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live |
| 2:14.9 | forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world |
| 2:18.7 | is my flesh. Amen. In 1977, the BBC presented a documentary series. I don't know if ever |
| 2:32.0 | it made it across the Atlantic Ocean, but it was a series of |
| 2:36.5 | 13 episodes concerning the religious quest of man. And it covered not only Christianity in its |
| 2:47.4 | various forms, but it went through various comparative religions throughout a period of |
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