John 6:49

Myles Coverdale Bible

Youre fathers ate Manna in the wyldernes, and are deed.

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.

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

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;

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 The sayde they vnto him: What shal we do, that we maye worke ye workes of God? ²⁹ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto the: This is the worke of God, that ye beleue on him, whom he hath sent. ³⁰ Then sayde they vnto him: What token doest thou the, that we maye se and beleue ye? What workest thou? ³¹ Oure fathers ate Mana in the wyldernesse, as it is wrytte: He gaue the bred fro heauen to eate. ³² Then sayde Iesus vnto the: Verely verely I saye vnto you: Moses gaue you not bred from heaue, but my father geueth you the true bred from heauen: ³³ For this is that bred of God, which commeth from heauen, and geueth life vnto the worlde. ³⁴ The sayde they vnto him: Syr, geue vs allwaye soch bred. ³⁵ But Iesus sayde vnto the: I am yt bred of life. He that cometh vnto me, shal not huger: & he that beleueth on me, shal neuer thyrst. ³⁶ But I haue sayde vnto you, yt ye haue sene me, and yet ye beleue not. ³⁷ All that my father geueth me, cometh vnto me: and who so cometh vnto me, him wyl not I cast out:

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.