John 6:49
Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
50This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.
Cross References
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And will the prophets live unceasingly?
John 6:58Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.
Hebrews 3:17So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert?
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 →