John 6:49

THE MESSAGE

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;

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 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."

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.