John 6: 41-42
‘ At this, the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”’
How can Jesus say he “came down from heaven” when he was born right here on earth? Well… how else would you come down from heaven? I suppose that Jesus could have come as he was before he was born. But how would mere man have been able to stand in the face of such power and majesty?
On the other hand, if Jesus had come down directly from heaven, how would the prophecies about the coming of the Messiah have been fulfilled?
Q: What were the Jews really expecting should have happened?
I think their real problem may not have been how Jesus appeared, but in their own lack of inclusion and power within the scope of His plans. They were into building their own kingdom rather than God’s. There is a lesson in this for all of us.
I think their expectations of Jesus were for a messiah that came in power, crushing the wicked nations and establishing the kingdom ruled from Jerusalem.