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John 6:49

Death and loss

47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

48 I am that bread of life.

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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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

    I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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  • Hebrews 3:17–19

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:3–5

    And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

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  • John 6:31

    Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

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  • Numbers 26:65

    For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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  • John 6:58

    This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

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  • Zechariah 1:5

    Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

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