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Contemporary English Version

John 6:57

The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fellowship;   Flesh;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Life;   Regeneration;   Righteous;   Symbols and Similitudes;   The Topic Concordance - Body;   Eternal Life;   Flesh;   God;   Jesus Christ;   Life;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Life, Eternal;   Life, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Bread;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Jesus Christ;   Miracle;   Mission;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eating;   Eternal Life;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Disciples;   Eternal Life;   Hour;   John, the Gospel of;   Life;   Manna;   Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament;   Resurrection;   Temptation of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eucharist;   Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   John, Theology of;   Logos;   Moses;   Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Body (2);   Brotherhood (2);   Christ in Art;   Communion (2);   Discourse;   Eternal Life (2);   Eternal Punishment;   Fellowship (2);   Happiness;   Incarnation (2);   Living (2);   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Meals;   Mediator;   Mission;   Missions;   Moses ;   Necessity;   Popularity ;   Sacraments;   Sacrifice;   Sacrifice (2);   Sacrifices ;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Sheep, Shepherd;   Son of God;   Trinity (2);   Union;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Eating;   7 To Eat;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bread;   Flesh;   Manna;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jesus christ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judas Iscariot;   Life;   Light;   Lively;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Manna;   Spiritual Meat;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 21;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 7;   Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for October 15;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"The Father sent me. He lives, and I live because of him. So everyone who eats me will live because of me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As the lyvinge father hath sent me even so lyve I by my father: and he that eateth me shall live by me.
Hebrew Names Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
International Standard Version
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.
New American Standard Bible
"Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, the one who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
New Century Version
The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me.
Update Bible Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me.
Webster's Bible Translation
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
English Standard Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
World English Bible
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Weymouth's New Testament
As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As my fadir lyuynge sente me, and Y lyue for the fadir, and he that etith me, he schal lyue for me.
English Revised Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
Berean Standard Bible
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
Amplified Bible
"Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, even so the one who feeds on Me [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will also live because of Me.
American Standard Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
Bible in Basic English
As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father, so also whoever eats me will live through me.
Darby Translation
As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.
Etheridge Translation
As the Father the Living (one) who hath sent me, and I live by the Father, even so he who shall eat me, shall live, too, by me.
Murdock Translation
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that shall eat me, he also will live because of me.
King James Version (1611)
As the liuing Father hath sent me, and I liue by the Father: so, he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.
New Living Translation
I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.
New Life Bible
The living Father sent Me and I live because of Him. In the same way, the one who eats Me will live because of Me.
New Revised Standard
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As that liuing Father hath sent me, so liue I by the Father, and he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.
George Lamsa Translation
Just as the living Father sent me, and I am living because of the Father, so whoever eats me, will also live because of me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just as the living Father sent me, - and I live by reason of the Father, he also that feedeth upon me, even he, shall live by reason of me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(6-58) As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.
Revised Standard Version
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As the lyuing father hath sent me, and I lyue by the father: Euen so, he that eateth me, shal liue by [the meanes of] me.
Good News Translation
The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.
Christian Standard Bible®
Just as the living
King James Version
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Lexham English Bible
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.
Literal Translation
Even as the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father; also the one partaking Me, even that one will live through Me.
Young's Literal Translation
`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As the lyuynge father hath sent me, and I lyue for the fathers sake: Euen so he that eateth me, shall lyue for my sake.
Mace New Testament (1729)
as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
New English Translation
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.
New King James Version
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The Father gave me life, and I will give that same life to the cowboy who rides for me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
Legacy Standard Bible
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

Contextual Overview

28 "What exactly does God want us to do?" the people asked. 29 Jesus answered, "God wants you to have faith in the one he sent." 30 They replied, "What miracle will you work, so that we can have faith in you? What will you do? 31 For example, when our ancestors were in the desert, they were given manna to eat. It happened just as the Scriptures say, ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 32 Jesus then told them, "I tell you for certain that Moses wasn't the one who gave you bread from heaven. My Father is the one who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 And the bread that God gives is the one who came down from heaven to give life to the world." 34 The people said, "Lord, give us this bread and don't ever stop!" 35 Jesus replied: I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty. 36 I have told you already that you have seen me and still do not have faith in me. 37 Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the living: Psalms 18:46, Jeremiah 10:10, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, Hebrews 9:14

I live: John 5:26, John 17:21

even: John 11:25, John 11:26, John 14:6, John 14:19, 1 Corinthians 15:22, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:4, 1 John 4:9

Reciprocal: Luke 20:38 - for all John 6:69 - the living John 10:36 - sent John 17:3 - and Jesus Romans 5:10 - we shall 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they Colossians 3:11 - and 1 Peter 2:4 - a living

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the living Father hath sent me,.... Into the world, to be the Saviour of it; not by local motion, but by assumption of human nature; and not against his will, or as having superiority over him; but by joint consent and agreement: the first person in the Godhead is here styled, "the living Father"; not because he is the Father of spirits, of angels, and the souls of men; and the Father of all men by creation, and of saints by adoption; and the Father, or author of all mercies, spiritual and temporal; but because he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and this character is peculiar to him: he is indeed the living God, and has life in himself, and is the fountain of life to others; but not in distinction from, and to the exclusion of the Son, or Spirit; but then none but he is the living Father, who ever did, and ever will, live as the Father of Christ:

and I live by the Father; which is to be understood of Christ, not as God, but as Mediator, and as man. As Mediator he was set up by his Father, as the head of life to the elect; and was intrusted by him with a fulness of life for them; and was sent to open the way of life unto them, and bestow it on them. As man, he had his human life from God, and was preserved and upheld in it by him; and he laid it down at his command, and at his death committed his soul or spirit to him; and which was restored unto him, and is continued with him. The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read, "for the Father", or "because of him"; and may design either that near union and conjunction of Christ with him, by virtue of which they live the same life; or else his living to the glory and honour of his Father, as he did, and does:

so he that eateth me; in a spiritual sense, by faith. The phrase of eating the Messiah was a familiar one, and well known to the Jews; though these Capernaites cavilled at it, and called it an hard saying.

"Says Rab, the Israelites shall "eat" the years of the Messiah: (the gloss on it is, the fulness which the Israelites shall have in those days:) says R. Joseph, it is certainly so; but who shall "eat him?" shall Chellek and Billek (two judges in Sodom) אכלי לה, "eat him?" contrary to the words of R. Hillell, who says, Israel shall have no Messiah, for אכלוהו, "they ate him" in the days of Hezekiah y;''

that is, they enjoyed him then; for he thought that Hezekiah was the Messiah; but that was the doctor's mistake. The Messiah now was, and to be enjoyed and eaten by faith in a spiritual sense, and everyone that does so,

even he shall live by me: such have their life from Christ; he is their food, on which they lived; and by him they are continued, upheld, and preserved in their spiritual life, and are by him brought to the life of glory: or they live "for", or "because of" him, as the above versions render it; they derive their life from him, and because he lives, they live also; and they live to his glory, and will do so to all eternity.

y T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2. & 99. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I live by the Father - See the notes at John 5:26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 57. So he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. — From which we learn that the union between Christ and his followers shall be similar to that which subsists between God and Christ.


 
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