John Chapter 6 verse 49 Holy Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
read chapter 6 in ASV
Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.
read chapter 6 in BBE
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
read chapter 6 in DARBY
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
read chapter 6 in KJV
read chapter 6 in WBT
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
read chapter 6 in WEB
your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
read chapter 6 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 49, 50. - Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died. The Lord went back to the very words of the Jews in ver. 31. The Heaven-given manna by which Jehovah sustained the temporal life of the fathers in the wilderness did not convey the antidote to death. "The carcases [of these fathers] fell in the wilderness." He does not say, "perished out of God's sight forever," or were condemned, but that there was nothing in the eating of manna which arrested, or averted, or triumphed, over death; yet he added: This (Bread of life) is the Bread which cometh down from heaven, in order that any one (τὶς) may eat thereof, and may not die. The eating of the Bread of life (the life-giving Bread), which I myself am, the thorough assimilation, the entire acceptance of me as God's Gift of life to the world, confers the very principle of life; and, though a partaker may seem to perish, he does not die (cf. John 8:51-11:26, notes) - he will not "taste of death," "he will never die." The life will be stronger than death; it will survive apparent extinction. Meyer says that here Christ reserves to ver. 51 the positive offer "of his own concrete Personality, and is exhibiting the true Bread, according to its real nature." Still he has said, "I am the life-giving Bread," and is undoubtedly preparing for the following announcement, which adds a new and startling thought, calculated to sustain the former one.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(49) Your fathers . . . and are dead.--Better, . . . and died.--The manna which their fathers ate (John 6:31) seemed to them a greater work than this which He has done. Its true relation to Him is shown in the fact that those who ate it afterwards died; whereas He is the true spiritual food for the world, and those who feed upon Him shall not afterwards die. That was manna, special in time and circumstance; this is bread, the true sustenance for all times and all circumstances. That seemed to them to come from heaven, and this from earth; but this outer earth-born form of flesh contains the true life, in the only way in which humanity could receive it. The life itself cometh down from heaven.
