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John 6:48

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Manna;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bread of Life;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Shewbread;   Titles and Names of Christ;   Types of Christ;  

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;   God;   Jesus Christ;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   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;   Doctrines;   Eternal Life (2);   Fellowship (2);   Goodness;   Influence;   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Meals;   Ministry;   Mission;   Moses ;   Popularity ;   Presence (2);   Prophet;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Sacrifice (2);   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Sheep, Shepherd;   Son of God;   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Day;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bread;   Christ;   Eating;   Manna;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jesus christ;   Manna;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;  

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;  

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Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am the bread of life.
King James Version (1611)
I am that bread of life.
King James Version
I am that bread of life.
English Standard Version
I am the bread of life.
New American Standard Bible
"I am the bread of life.
New Century Version
I am the bread that gives life.
Amplified Bible
"I am the Bread of Life [the Living Bread which gives and sustains life].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I am the bread of life.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am the bread of life.
Berean Standard Bible
I am the bread of life.
Contemporary English Version
I am the bread that gives life!
Complete Jewish Bible
I am the bread which is life.
Darby Translation
I am the bread of life.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am the bread that gives life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am that bread of life.
George Lamsa Translation
I am the bread of life.
Good News Translation
I am the bread of life.
Lexham English Bible
I am the bread of life.
Literal Translation
I am the Bread of life.
American Standard Version
I am the bread of life.
Bible in Basic English
I am the bread of life.
Hebrew Names Version
I am the bread of life.
International Standard Version
I am the bread of life.John 6:33,35;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
I am the bread of life.
Murdock Translation
I am the bread of life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am that bread of lyfe.
English Revised Version
I am the bread of life.
World English Bible
I am the bread of life.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and yet died.
Weymouth's New Testament
I am the bread of Life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am breed of lijf.
Update Bible Version
I am the bread of life.
Webster's Bible Translation
I am that bread of life.
New English Translation
I am the bread of life.
New King James Version
I am the bread of life.
New Living Translation
Yes, I am the bread of life!
New Life Bible
I am the Bread of Life.
New Revised Standard
I am the bread of life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I am the bread of life: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the bread of life.
Revised Standard Version
I am the bread of life.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I am that breed of lyfe.
Young's Literal Translation
I am the bread of the life;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am that bred of life.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I am the bread of life,
Simplified Cowboy Version
I am the bread of life.
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Contextual Overview

28 To that they said, "Well, what do we do then to get in on God's works?" 29 Jesus said, "Throw your lot in with the One that God has sent. That kind of a commitment gets you in on God's works." 30They waffled: "Why don't you give us a clue about who you are, just a hint of what's going on? When we see what's up, we'll commit ourselves. Show us what you can do. Moses fed our ancestors with bread in the desert. It says so in the Scriptures: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 32Jesus responded, "The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world." 34 They jumped at that: "Master, give us this bread, now and forever!" 35Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don't really believe me. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don't let go. I came down from heaven not to follow my own whim but to accomplish the will of the One who sent me. 39"This, in a nutshell, is that will: that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed—not a single detail missed—and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole. This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time." 41At this, because he said, "I am the Bread that came down from heaven," the Jews started arguing over him: "Isn't this the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father? Don't we know his mother? How can he now say, ‘I came down out of heaven' and expect anyone to believe him?" 43Jesus said, "Don't bicker among yourselves over me. You're not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me—that's the only way you'll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, ‘And then they will all be personally taught by God.' Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally—to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father—and you can see me. 47"I'm telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live—and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."
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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 6:33-35, John 6:41, John 6:51, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 10:17, 1 Corinthians 11:24, 1 Corinthians 11:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:9 - tree of life Genesis 3:22 - eat Psalms 22:26 - The meek Psalms 105:40 - bread Isaiah 55:2 - eat Matthew 5:6 - for Mark 14:22 - take John 6:35 - I am Revelation 2:17 - to eat

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am that bread of life. :-.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am that bread of life - My doctrines and the benefits of my mediation are that real support of spiritual life of which the manna in the wilderness was the faint emblem. See John 6:32-33.

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 48. I am that bread of life. — I alone afford, by my doctrine and Spirit, that nourishment by which the soul is saved unto life eternal.

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