Jesus, therefore, told the cavillers just what He had told the crowd. '_Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day._' All their reasonings and debatings would not bring them nearer to Heaven or to Him, than the feet and the eyes of the people who had eaten of the loaves had brought them. The Father of spirits must draw their spirits to Him who was the source of their life and light, whom He had sent to raise their spirits out of their darkness and death; when they were drawn, when they did embrace Him as their deliverer and friend, no death of the body, no darkness of the grave, should have power over them; He will raise them up to the fulness of life in the last day. Was this new doctrine? '_Was it not written in their Prophets, Ye shall be all taught of God?_' Was it not the very promise,--the highest promise,--to the people of God's covenant, to those who were circumcised and withdrawn from fleshly idols, that they should hear His voice speaking to them? What did that promise imply but that God was a Father who was educating the creatures who are formed in His image to know that image? '_Every man therefore that hath heard and learnt of the Father, cometh unto Me._' 'He comes to Me as that Word who was in the beginning with the Father,--as that Word who has been, and is, and will be always, the light of men.' '_Not_--He goes on--_that any man hath seen the Father, save He which is of God, He hath seen the Father_.' It is not that any man has had a vision of Him who, by a thousand mysterious influences, is every hour acting upon him, and whom he has either obeyed or resisted; only He who is of God--only the Son, who has come forth from the Father--has had this vision; only He has entered into that Love which has been guiding the universe, and penetrating into the hearts of human beings. This doctrine respecting the Father and the Son, which we have been tracing through every passage of this Gospel--which we have found to lie beneath all its other announcements--is the necessary preparation for the answer which He makes to the murmurers:--'_Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. And the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world._'