John 6:41-51 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.… Consider that murmuring is a mercy-embittering sin, a mercy-souring sin. As the sweetest things put into a sour vessel sours them, or put into a bitter vessel embitters them, so murmuring puts gall and wormwood into every cup of mercy that God gives into our hands. The murmurer writes "Marah," that is, bitterness, upon all his mercies, and he reads and tastes bitterness in them all. As "to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet," so to the murmuring soul every sweet thing is bitter. (T. Brook.) Parallel Verses KJV: The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. |
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