John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
50This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Cross References
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
John 6:58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live for ever.
Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses 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 →