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International Standard Version

John 6:50

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.John 6:51,58;">[xr]

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Immortality;   Jesus, the Christ;   Life;   Manna;   Regeneration;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bread of Life;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Immortality;   Man;   Man's;   Mortality-Immortality;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Life, Eternal;  

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;   Drink;   Jesus Christ;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Manna;   New Testament;   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 - Death;   Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   John, Theology of;   Moses;   Peter;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christ in Art;   Discourse;   Eternal Life (2);   Eternal Punishment;   Fellowship (2);   Humanity of Christ;   Immortality (2);   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Manuscripts;   Meals;   Ministry;   Mission;   Moses ;   Obedience (2);   Popularity ;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Sacrifice (2);   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Sheep, Shepherd;   Son of God;   Vicarious Sacrifice;   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Day;   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;   Manna;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Eat;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 7;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
King James Version (1611)
This is the bread which commeth downe from heauen, that a man may eate thereof, and not die.
King James Version
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
English Standard Version
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
New American Standard Bible
"This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and not die.
New Century Version
Here is the bread that comes down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will never die.
Amplified Bible
"This is the Bread that comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
Legacy Standard Bible
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Contemporary English Version
But the bread from heaven has come down, so that no one who eats it will ever die.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the bread that comes down from heaven is such that a person may eat it and not die.
Darby Translation
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
Easy-to-Read Version
Here is the bread that comes down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will never die.
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is that breade, which commeth downe from heauen, that hee which eateth of it, shoulde not die.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the bread which came down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.
Good News Translation
But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.
Lexham English Bible
This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die.
Literal Translation
This is the Bread coming down out of Heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
American Standard Version
This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Bible in Basic English
The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
Hebrew Names Version
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Etheridge Translation
but this is the bread which hath descended from heaven, that man may eat of it, and die not.
Murdock Translation
But this is the bread which cometh from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is that bread, which commeth downe from heauen, that yf any man eate therof, [he] shoulde not dye.
English Revised Version
This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
World English Bible
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
Weymouth's New Testament
Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is breed comynge doun fro heuene, that if ony man ete therof, he die not.
Update Bible Version
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Webster's Bible Translation
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
New English Translation
This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.
New King James Version
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
New Living Translation
Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die.
New Life Bible
But this is the Bread that comes down from heaven. The one who eats it never dies.
New Revised Standard
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the bread which, out of heaven, cometh down, that one, thereof, may eat, - and not die.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die.
Revised Standard Version
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
This is that breed which cometh fro heave yt he which eateth of it shuld also not dye.
Young's Literal Translation
this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is that bred which commeth from heauen, that who so eateth therof, shulde not dye.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but this is the bread which came down from heaven, that he who eats thereof should not die.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Anyone who eats the bread from heaven will never die.

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

the bread: John 6:33, John 6:42, John 6:51, John 3:13

that: John 6:58, John 8:51, John 11:25, John 11:26, Romans 8:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:15 - a basket Psalms 133:3 - even life Matthew 22:4 - Behold Luke 22:16 - until John 6:32 - the true Romans 5:11 - by whom Romans 6:23 - but the Romans 10:6 - to bring Ephesians 5:29 - nourisheth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,.... Namely, that of which he had spoken John 6:32, meaning himself:

that a man may eat thereof, and not die; for this heavenly bread is soul quickening, soul strengthening, and soul satisfying food; nor can there be any want where this is: eating of it is not to be understood corporeally, as these Capernaites took it; nor sacramentally, as if it was confined to the ordinance of the Lord's supper, which was not, as yet, instituted; but more largely of eating and feeding upon Christ spiritually by faith: he is, by the believer, to be fed upon wholly, and only; all of him, and none but him, and that daily; for there is the same need of daily bread for our souls, as for our bodies; and also largely and freely, as such may do; and likewise joyfully, with gladness and singleness of heart: such as are Christ's beloved, and his friends, "may" eat; they have liberty, a hearty welcome to eat; and so have everyone that have a will, an inclination, a desire to eat; and all overcomers, whom Christ makes more than conquerors, Song of Solomon 5:1 Revelation 2:7; which liberty is owing to Christ's gracious invitation, and to his and the Father's free gift; and to the openness and ease of access of all sensible sinners to him: and the consequence and effect of such eating is, that it secures from dying, not from a corporeal death, to which men are appointed, and saints themselves are subject; though it is indeed abolished by Christ as a penal evil; nor shall his people continue under the power of it, but shall rise again to everlasting life: but then they are, through eating this bread, secured from a spiritual death; for though there may be a decline, as to the exercise of grace, and a want of liveliness, and they may fear they are ready to die, and conclude they are free among the dead, and that their strength and hope are perished; yet he that lives and believes in Christ, the resurrection, and the life, shall never die; and such are also secure from an eternal death, on them the second death shall have no power, nor shall they ever be hurt by it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 50. This is the bread, &c.] I am come for this very purpose, that men may believe in me, and have eternal life.


 
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