Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 6:49 in context
John 6:46–52
46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
47
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
48
I am the bread of life.
49
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Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
50
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
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