'You ask me to give it to you: it is given already. The Father has given _Me_ to His creatures. I spoke of a Son of Man whom the Father had sealed. _I_, that Son of Man, _am that bread of life_. But how can such bread be eaten? _He that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and He that believeth on Me shall never thirst._' If coming to Him was going to Him on their feet, they had done that already; if believing on Him was acknowledging Him as the Prophet that should come into the world, they had already fed on Him in the sense that He intended. Yet it was clear that their hunger was not satisfied--that it was only beginning to be excited. He goes on--'_But I have said unto you, That ye also have seen Me, and believe not_.' If Jesus was merely a Prophet of Nazareth, who could be shown by visible miracles to be sent from God, the distinction of seeing and believing is incomprehensible. Let a sufficient amount of probative evidence be addressed to the eye, the act of believing must follow. But if He was the Word who had in all times been the Light of men; if those who judged by the sight of their eyes had resisted this Light, and become idolaters; if those who received it, received it into their hearts, and so rose to the stature of Sons of God;--then it was certain that He would speak to another organ than the eye, or than any of the senses; as much when He stood before them in an actual body, and spoke with fleshly lips, as when He was only their invisible Teacher and Reprover. It must be their faith, not their sight, which must now, as ever, see Him and answer to Him. They might touch Him, and yet not come to Him. But He proceeds:--'_All that the Father giveth to Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out_.' The apparent advantage of being on earth at the time of His appearing--of being in the streets in which He walked, of sitting with Him, of conversing with Him--would be nothing. All these privileges might belong to those who would reject Him, hate Him, betray Him. But all that the Father of spirits gives to Him--all that yields to the Father's will--shall confess Him as its true Lord; and him that so cometh, in one place or another, in one age or another, He will not thrust away. '_For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me._' 'I have not come forth to save some choice favourites of Mine, but to fulfil the will of Him who created the universe--of that Father to whom I said your spirits are yielding when they turn to Me.'