John 6:48

Just like food [MET] sustains your physical life, I am the one who enables you to have spiritual life.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I am that bread of life.

In Context

47Listen to this carefully: Everyone who believes ◄ my message/in me► has eternal life.

49Even though your ancestors ate the manna while they were traveling in the desolate area, they died anyway.

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Cross References

John 6:33The true bread from God came down from heaven, and he is the one who will give eternal life to the people of the world [MTY].”

John 6:51I am the one who came down from heaven to enable people to have spiritual life. If people take what I will give them, they will live forever. What I will give them is my flesh, which I will give to all the people in [MTY] the world in order that they may have spiritual life.”

1 Corinthians 11:24After he thanked God for it, he broke it into pieces. Then he gave it to his disciples and said, “This bread represents [MET] (OR, is) my body, that I am about to sacrifice for you. Eat bread in this way again and again to remember my offering myself as a sacrifice for you.”

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 →

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