John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and they are dead.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that any person may eat of it, and never die.
Cross References
John 6:58This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as the manna your fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live to eternity.
Hebrews 3:17But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
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 →