John 6:49
Good News Translation
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

New Revised Standard Version
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Contemporary English Version
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, and later they died.

New American Bible
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.

fathers.

John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

and are.

Numbers 26:65 For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?

1 Corinthians 10:3-5 And did all eat the same spiritual food: . . .

Hebrews 3:17-19 And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? . . .

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. 50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die.…
Cross References
John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

John 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

Revelation 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give the hidden manna and will give him a white counter: and in the counter, a new name written, which no man knoweth but he that receiveth it.

John 6:48
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