John 6:49 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:49

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

KJV

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

On the Mysteries 8.47 (397)

It has been proven that the sacraments of the church are more ancient; now realize that they are more powerful. In very fact it is a marvelous thing that God rained manna on the ancestors and they were fed by daily nourishment from heaven. Therefore, it is said, "Humankind has eaten the bread of angels."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Your fathers did eat manna - There was a real miracle performed in their behalf; there was a perpetual interposition of God which showed that they were his chosen people. And are dead - The bread which they ate could not save them from death. Though God interfered in their behalf, yet they died. We may learn, 1. That that is not the most valuable of God’s gifts which merely satisfies the temporal wants. 2. That the most distinguished temporal blessings will not save from death. Wealth, friends, food, raiment, will not preserve life.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	The	G3588 →
πατέρες	pateres	fathers	G3962 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of You	G4771 →
ἔφαγον	ephagon	ate	G5315 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ	erēmō	wilderness	G2048 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μάννα	manna	manna	G3131 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπέθανον·	apethanon	died;	G599 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
leads to
- Hebrews 3:16
  For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- Numbers 26:64–65
  Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–12
  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Psalms 106:26
  So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- Numbers 14:22–37
  not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Through
John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:15
  In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to…
- Psalms 105:40
  They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- Psalms 78:24–25
  He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.