John 6:49 · KJV
“Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.”
— John 6:49
I am that bread of life.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John 6 — Context
Verily, 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.
Cross References
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Hebrews 3:17-19
But with whom was he grieved forty years? {was it} not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
1 Corinthians 10:3-5
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
John 6:58
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.
John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where {are} they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Numbers 26:65
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.