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John 6:49 KJV
John · chapter 6 · verse 49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.John 6:49 · King James Version
John 6:49 in context
47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48I am that bread of life.
49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernesserēmossolitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited, used of places, a desert, wilderness, deserted…G2048 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- mannamannamanna = " what is it" , the food that nourished the Israelites for forty years in…G3131 →
- eatphágōto eat, to eat a thing, to take food, eat a meal, metaph. to devour, consumeG5315 →
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Whether this conference was with the Capernaites, in whose synagogue Christ now was, or with those who came from the other side of the sea, is not certain nor material;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 28-59