John 6:49
47 Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
- KJV
- Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
- WEB
- Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
- ASV
- Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- DARBY
- Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
- BLB
- Your⁺ fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- ÅB
- Deres fedre spiste manna i ørkenen og døde;
- OTB
- Deres forfedre spiste manna i ørkenen, og de døde.
- B1930
- Eders fedre åt manna i ørkenen og døde;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
Read in contextHebrews 3:17–19
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:3–5
They all ate the same spiritual food
Read in contextJohn 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Read in contextNumbers 26:65
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Read in contextJohn 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
Read in contextZechariah 1:5
Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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