John 6:49
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
50This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
Cross References
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
John 6:58This is the bread that came down out of heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live into the age.
Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
Matthew Henry on John 6:29-60
Christ the True Bread from Heaven; Christ Welcomes All that Come to Him; Necessity of Feeding upon Christ. 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32… Read the whole commentary →