John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
KJV
οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἔφαγον ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα καὶ ἀπέθανον·
Greek NT
Patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto, et mortui sunt.
Vulgate
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
ASV
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μάννα
manna
hebrew_word · 4×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
φάγω
phago
verb · 93×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρημος
eremos
adjective · 48×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα | RP: τὸ μάννα ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ
- ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα — SBLGNT
- ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τὸ μάννα ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2835This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"123 that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth,…
The manna in the wilderness was bread from heaven, but it was a type and shadow — those who ate it still died. The bread that Christ gives is His own body, the true bread from heaven, and whoever eats it will live forever. Ambrose also points to the offering of Melchizedek, who brought bread and wine to Abraham, as a prophetic figure of the Eucharistic sacrifice.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:3 — And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
- Exod 16:15 — And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
- Heb 3:17 — But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- John 6:31 — Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- 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.
- Prov 9:5 — Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.