The Bread of Life Discourse questions

[1Lord1Faith]

26 Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

36 But I told you that although you have seen [me], you do not believe.

Is verse 36 referring to what Jesus said in verse 26? I believe it is. If that’s true, wouldn’t that make the Discourse about Jesus making it clear that He isn’t there to look after their material needs? And that’s why some disciples left?

It seems like, after hearing the Discourse, many of the disciples understood that Jesus was not going to take care of their bodily hunger, but they also didn’t believe what Jesus was saying about eternal life of the spirit either. So they left, just as Jesus told them they would:

Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.

”But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”

So some of them didn’t ‘come to him’, but they left because, as Jesus said, they didn’t believe in Him.

If a Catholic interpretation of The Bread of Life Discourse is primarily about the Eucharist, is there an implication that anyone who doesn’t believe in the Eucharist does not believe in Jesus? And, according to verse 45, they are not really learning from God?

 

[Vico]

… And, according to verse 45, they are not really learning from God?

Haydock Commentary John 6:

Ver. 45. Every one, therefore, that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned of him who I am, cometh to me by faith and obedience. As to others, when the Scripture says they are taught of God, this is to be understood of an interior spiritual instruction, which takes place in the soul, and does not fall under the senses; but not less real on that account, because it is the heart, which hears the voice of this invisible teacher.