John 6:57

Living Father. Repeatedly the Deity is spoken of as the “living God” (see Deut. 5:26; Matt. 16:16; Acts 14:15; 2 Cor. 6:16). He is the One who lives of Himself without dependence upon any other for His life; thus He is also the source of the life of all others in the universe. What is true in this respect of the Father is also true of the Son, for “in Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived” (DA 530). See Additional Note on John 1.

By the Father. Literally, “because of the Father.” Although He is God, yet while on earth in human flesh Jesus was completely dependent upon His Father (see on v. 11). He lived “because of the Father.” Thus the Christian is to be dependent upon Christ and to receive from Him the divine life and the divine nature (see DA 123). It is this eternal life that the Christian may partake of now, and it is also this life that will bring him forth in the resurrection (see ch. 5:26-29; cf. DA 388).