John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead:
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
50but this is the bread which hath descended from heaven, that man may eat of it, and die not.
Cross References
John 6:58This is the bread which hath descended from heaven. Not as was the manna that your fathers ate, and are dead; he who eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Hebrews 3:17And with whom was he wearied forty years, but with them who sinned, and whose bones 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 →