John 6:58 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:58

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

BSB

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ASV

This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

KJV

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

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Commentary

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Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4 (444)

Great (saith He) ought to be the effects of great things, and the gifts of the Grace from above, should appear God-befitting and worthy of the Divine Munificence. For if thou have wholly received in faith that the Bread came, down from heaven, let it produce continous life in them that long after it, and have the unceasing Operation of immortality.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

This is - That is, I am the bread - Which is not like the manna your fathers ate, who died notwithstanding.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

This is that bread ... - This is the true bread that came down. The word “that” should not be in the translation. Shall live for ever - Not on the earth, but in the enjoyments of a better world.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

Few passages of Scripture have been so painfully twisted and perverted as that which we have now read. The Jews are not the only people who have striven about its meaning. A sense has been put upon it, which it was never intended to bear. Fallen man, in interpreting the Bible, has an unhappy aptitude for turning food into poison. The things that were written for his benefit, he often makes an occasion for falling. Let us first consider carefully, what these verses do NOT mean.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὗτός	houtos	This	G3778 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἄρτος	artos	bread	G740 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
ἐξ	ex	from	G1537 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
καταβάς,	katabas	having come down,	G2597 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
ἔφαγον	ephagon	ate	G5315 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πατέρες	pateres	fathers	G3962 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπέθανον·	apethanon	died;	G599 →
ὁ	ho	The [one]	G3588 →
τρώγων	trōgōn	eating	G5176 →
τοῦτον	touton	this	G3778 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
ἄρτον	arton	bread	G740 →
ζήσει	zēsei	will live	G2198 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
αἰῶνα.¶	aiōna	age.	G165 →

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

The walk8

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
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
leads to
- John 5:24
  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
- John 1:12
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9
  For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 5:6
  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- John 3:15–16
  that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
Through
John 6:41
At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
leads to
- John 6:51–52
  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is…
- John 6:48
  I am the bread of life.
- John 6:33
  For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”