John 6:49
New International Version
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

New Living Translation
Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.

English Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Berean Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

Berean Literal Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

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

New King James Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

New American Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

NASB 1995
“Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

NASB 1977
“Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Amplified Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Christian Standard Bible
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

American Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Your forefathers ate manna in the wilderness and they died.”

Contemporary English Version
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, and later they died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

English Revised Version
Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert and died.

Good News Translation
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

International Standard Version
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

Literal Standard Version
your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died;

Majority Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

New American Bible
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;

NET Bible
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

New Revised Standard Version
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

New Heart English Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Webster's Bible Translation
Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Weymouth New Testament
Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.

World English Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

Young's Literal Translation
your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.…

Cross References
John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

John 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."

Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.


Treasury of Scripture

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

fathers.

John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

and are.

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.

Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

1 Corinthians 10:3-5
And did all eat the same spiritual meat; …

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John 6
1. Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15. Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16. but withdrawing himself, he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26. reproves the people flocking after him, and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32. declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66. Many disciples depart from him.
68. Peter confesses him.
70. Judas is a devil.














(49) Your fathers . . . and are dead.--Better, . . . and died.--The manna which their fathers ate (John 6:31) seemed to them a greater work than this which He has done. Its true relation to Him is shown in the fact that those who ate it afterwards died; whereas He is the true spiritual food for the world, and those who feed upon Him shall not afterwards die. That was manna, special in time and circumstance; this is bread, the true sustenance for all times and all circumstances. That seemed to them to come from heaven, and this from earth; but this outer earth-born form of flesh contains the true life, in the only way in which humanity could receive it. The life itself cometh down from heaven.

Verses 49, 50. - Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died. The Lord went back to the very words of the Jews in ver. 31. The Heaven-given manna by which Jehovah sustained the temporal life of the fathers in the wilderness did not convey the antidote to death. "The carcases [of these fathers] fell in the wilderness." He does not say, "perished out of God's sight forever," or were condemned, but that there was nothing in the eating of manna which arrested, or averted, or triumphed, over death; yet he added: This (Bread of life) is the Bread which cometh down from heaven, in order that any one (τὶς) may eat thereof, and may not die. The eating of the Bread of life (the life-giving Bread), which I myself am, the thorough assimilation, the entire acceptance of me as God's Gift of life to the world, confers the very principle of life; and, though a partaker may seem to perish, he does not die (cf. John 8:51-11:26, notes) - he will not "taste of death," "he will never die." The life will be stronger than death; it will survive apparent extinction. Meyer says that here Christ reserves to ver. 51 the positive offer "of his own concrete Personality, and is exhibiting the true Bread, according to its real nature." Still he has said, "I am the life-giving Bread," and is undoubtedly preparing for the following announcement, which adds a new and startling thought, calculated to sustain the former one.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

forefathers
πατέρες (pateres)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

ate
ἔφαγον (ephagon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 5315: A primary verb; to eat.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

manna
μάννα (manna)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3131: Of Hebrew origin; manna, an edible gum.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wilderness,
ἐρήμῳ (erēmō)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2048: Lonesome, i.e. waste.

yet
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

they died.
ἀπέθανον (apethanon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 599: To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off.


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