After miraculously feeding the 5,000, Jesus says, “I Am The Bread of Life.” It is only in Jesus that we have eternal life. God the Father sends His Son, The True Bread from Heaven, to a starving and needy world.
Jesus is The True Vine, who gives life, love, and joy to His disciples. Jesus calls and empowers us to produce fruit in our lives that faithfully and accurately represent Him to others.
God reveals himself to Moses in Exodus as the “I Am.” In John’s Gospel, Jesus repeatedly uses these same two words with reference to himself. He is more than a wise teacher, a moral philosopher, a philanthropist, a miracle-worker…. He is the Great I Am of old.