John 6:50

THE MESSAGE

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.

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

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 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

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.