Now Jesus clearly declared Himself to be the heavenly bread of which He had been speaking. Three times in the present discourse He repeated this statement concerning Himself (vs. 41, 48, 51).
He that cometh.
Gr. ho erchomenos, literally, “the one coming.” The Greek form of the verb implies, not a single act of coming to Christ, but a consistent habit of life. “He that cometh to me” is here clearly in parallel with “he that believeth on me,” for coming to Christ can be accomplished only by faith (see on v. 29). Coming and believing are both “works of God.”
Shall never hunger.
Jesus’ words are in sharp contrast with those found in Ecclesiasticus (a book familiar to the Jews of His time), where wisdom is made to declare: “They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty” (ch. 24:21).