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International Standard Version

John 6:49

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.John 6:31;">[xr]

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Manna;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bread of Life;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Life;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eating;   Manna;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Bread;   Lord's supper;   Manna;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Jesus Christ;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Pentateuch;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Shewbread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   John, the Gospel of;   Life;   Manna;   Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament;   Temptation of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   John, Theology of;   Moses;   Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christ in Art;   Discourse;   Eternal Life (2);   Fathers;   Fellowship (2);   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Living (2);   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Meals;   Ministry;   Mission;   Moses ;   Popularity ;   Quotations (2);   Resurrection of the Dead;   Sacrifice (2);   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Sheep, Shepherd;   Son of God;   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Day;   7 To Eat;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bread;   Manna;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jesus christ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Manna;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 30;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 7;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your ancestors ate the manna
King James Version (1611)
Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse, and are dead.
King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
English Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
New American Standard Bible
"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
New Century Version
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but still they died.
Amplified Bible
"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Berean Standard Bible
Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
Contemporary English Version
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, and later they died.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your fathers ate the man in the desert; they died.
Darby Translation
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
Easy-to-Read Version
Your ancestors ate the manna God gave them in the desert, but it didn't keep them from dying.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse, and are dead.
George Lamsa Translation
Your forefathers ate manna in the wilderness, and yet they died.
Good News Translation
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.
Lexham English Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
Literal Translation
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
American Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Bible in Basic English
Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.
Hebrew Names Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Etheridge Translation
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead:
Murdock Translation
Your fathers ate the manna, in the wilderness, and they died.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Your fathers dyd eate Manna in the wyldernesse, and are dead.
English Revised Version
Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
World English Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
Weymouth's New Testament
Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Youre fadris eeten manna in desert, and ben deed.
Update Bible Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Webster's Bible Translation
Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
New English Translation
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
New King James Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
New Living Translation
Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.
New Life Bible
Your early fathers ate bread that came from heaven in the desert. They died.
New Revised Standard
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Your fathers, did eat, in the desert, the manna, - and died:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.
Revised Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Youre fathers dyd eate Mana in ye wildernes and are deed.
Young's Literal Translation
your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Youre fathers ate Manna in the wyldernes, and are deed.
Mace New Testament (1729)
your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and there they died.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Your ancestors ate manna from heaven in the desert, but they all died.

Contextual Overview

28 Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent."1 John 3:23;">[xr] 30 So they said to him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you performing?Matthew 12:38; 16:1; Mark 8:11; 1 Corinthians 1:22;">[xr] 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"Psalm 78:24; Exodus 16:15; Numbers 11:7-9">[fn]Exodus 16:15; Numbers 11:7; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25; 1 Corinthians 10:3;">[xr] 32 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 34 Then they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."John 4:15;">[xr] 35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never become hungry, and the one who believes in me will never become thirsty.John 4:14; 7:37;">[xr] 36 I told you that you have seen me,me">[fn] yet you do not believe.John 6:26,64;">[xr] 37 Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never turn away.Matthew 24:24; John 6:45; 10:28-29; 2 Timothy 2:19; 1 John 2:19;">[xr]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fathers: John 6:31

and are: Numbers 26:65, Zechariah 1:5, 1 Corinthians 10:3-5, Hebrews 3:17-19, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:15 - It is manna Proverbs 9:5 - General John 4:13 - Whosoever 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness. It is observable, that Christ says, not "our fathers", but "your fathers"; for though Christ, as concerning the flesh, came of these fathers, yet in every sense they were rather theirs than his; because regard may be had to such of them more especially who ate the manna as common food, and not as spiritual meat, as typical of the Messiah, as others did; and whom these, their offspring, did very much resemble. Though perhaps the reason of the use of this phrase may be, because the Jews themselves had used it in John 6:31, and Christ takes it up from them.

And are dead. This food, though it supported them in life for a while, could not preserve them from a corporeal death, and still less from an eternal one: for some of them not only died the first, but the second death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your fathers did eat manna - There was a real miracle performed in their behalf; there was a perpetual interposition of God which showed that they were his chosen people.

And are dead - The bread which they ate could not save them from death. Though God interfered in their behalf, yet they died. We may learn,

  1. That that is not the most valuable of God’s gifts which merely satisfies the temporal wants.
  2. That the most distinguished temporal blessings will not save from death. Wealth, friends, food, raiment, will not preserve life.
  3. There is need of something better than mere earthly blessings; there is need of that bread which cometh down from heaven, and which giveth life to the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 49. Your fathers did eat manna - and are dead. — That bread neither preserved their bodies alive, nor entitled them to life eternal; but those who receive my salvation, shall not only be raised again in the last day, but shall inherit eternal life. It was an opinion of the Jews themselves that their fathers, who perished in the wilderness, should never have a resurrection. Our Lord takes them on their own ground: Ye acknowledge that your fathers who fell in the wilderness shall never have a resurrection; and yet they ate of the manna: therefore that manna is not the bread that preserves to everlasting life, according even to your own concession.


 
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