Wonderful bread – 24 sayings about our favourite staple food -

I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35, emphasis mine)

There’s some rich symbolism here: The unleavened loaf represents the Israelites, and the leavened loaf is foreshadowing the day when the Gentiles, non-Jews, will be brought into this family.

“I shall not want,” he says. It is sometimes translated, “I lack nothing.” Dallas Willard, who used to raise sheep, noted that the verses that follow reinforce the message of contentment. Sheep typically do not lie down in green pastures, they eat green pastures. Likewise, sheep are expected to drink from quiet waters, not walk beside them. The ima