Then understood they] They might well understand that he spake not of bread; but how could they understand that he spake of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadduces, seeing Christ had not said so much unto them? It seems that, being beaten off from the conceit of bodily food by our Saviours words, v. 11. and considering that he used to teach spirituall things by corporall similitudes, they conceive he must needs speak of doctrine, the food of the soul.