<p>6:58 <i>This is the bread which came down out of Heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died; he that eats this bread shall live forever</i>- &quot;This is the bread&quot; may have been spoken with the Lord pointing to Himself, or with some sign that He referred to Himself. Or He may have had in view the &quot;life&quot; of which He has just spoken in :57. The coming down out of Heaven is not to be taken literally, just as the manna didn't float down through the sky, but was of Divine origin. The life we can now live is that of God, that lived by the Lord Jesus in His mortal life; it is out of Heaven in that there is direct connection between that life we can live, and the life or Spirit of God in Heaven itself.</p>