John 6:49
Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
48“I am the bread of the Life.
50This is the bread that comes down out of Heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Cross References
John 6:58This is the bread that came down out of Heaven. Whoever feeds on this bread of mine will live forever (in contrast to your fathers who ate the manna and died).”
Hebrews 3:17And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell 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 →