John 6:49
but this is the bread which cometh down from heaven,
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
In Context
48I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead:
50that any one may eat thereof and not die.
Cross References
John 6:58This is the bread that came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat, and yet are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
Hebrews 3:17But with whom was He provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases 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 →