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John 6:49
Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.
John 6:49 · Bible in Basic English
John 6:49 in other translations
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
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In context
46 Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
47 Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.
50 The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
51 I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
52 Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?
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