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Wycliffe Bible

John 6:48

Y am breed of lijf.

Bible Study Resources

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;  

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.
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.

Contextual Overview

28 Therfor thei seiden to hym, What schulen we do, that we worche the werkis of God? 29 Jhesus answerde, and seide to hem, This is the werk of God, that ye bileue to hym, whom he sente. 30 Therfor thei seiden to hym, What tokene thanne doist thou, that we seen, and bileue to thee? what worchist thou? 31 Oure fadris eeten manna in desert, as it is writun, He yaf to hem breed fro heuene to ete. 32 Therfor Jhesus seith to hem, Treuli, treuli, Y seie to you, Moyses yaf you not breed fro heuene, but my fadir yyueth you veri breed fro heuene; 33 for it is very breed that cometh doun fro heuene, and yyueth lijf to the world. 34 Therfor thei seiden to hym, Lord, euere yyue vs this breed. 35 And Jhesus seide to hem, Y am breed of lijf; he that cometh to me, schal not hungur; he that bileueth in me, schal neuere thirste. 36 But Y seid to you, that ye han seyn me, and ye bileueden not. 37 Al thing, that the fadir yyueth to me, schal come to me; and Y schal not caste hym out, that cometh to me.

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

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am that bread of life. :-.

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.

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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