John 6:27

Stop desiring food that will soon spoil! Instead, desire to get spiritual food that will last forever! Yearn for eternal life! That is what I, the one who came from heaven, will give you. God my Father has shown that he approves of me enabling me to do that.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

In Context

26Jesus replied to them, “Listen to this carefully: Do you know why you are looking for me? It is not because you saw me perform miracles and as a result have realized who I really am. No! You are looking for me only because you had plenty of bread to eat after I provided it for you by performing a miracle.

28Then the people asked him, “What things should we do to please God?”

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Cross References

Psalms 2:7And his king says, “I will proclaim what Yahweh has decreed. He said to me, ‘ It is as though you are my son; today I have declared to everyone that it is as though [MET] I am your father.

Proverbs 2:2Pay attention to wisdom and try hard to understand it.

Ecclesiastes 6:7People work hard to earn enough money to buy food to eat [MTY], but often they never get enough to eat.

Isaiah 42:1Yahweh says, “I want you people to know about my servant, whom I encourage. I have chosen him, and I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will make certain that all the people-groups do what is right/just.

Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of Yahweh our Lord is on me; he has appointed [MTY] me to bring good news to those who are oppressed, to comfort those who are discouraged, to free all those who are as though they are chained/tied [DOU] by the wrong things that they continually do.

Habakkuk 2:13But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that will be destroyed by fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.

Matthew Henry on John 6:23-28

Christ's Discourse with the Multitude. 22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; 23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his… Read the whole commentary →

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