John 6:47-51
New English Translation
47 I tell you the solemn truth,[a] the one who believes[b] has eternal life.[c] 48 I am the bread of life.[d] 49 Your ancestors[e] ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This[f] is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person[g] may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread[h] that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
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- John 6:47 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
- John 6:47 tc Most witnesses (A C2 D Ψ ƒ1,13 33 M lat and other versions) have “in me” (εἰς ἐμέ, eis eme) here, while the Sinaitic and Curetonian Syriac versions read “in God.” These clarifying readings are predictable variants, being motivated by the scribal tendency toward greater explicitness. That the earliest and best witnesses (P66,75vid א B C* L T W Θ 892) lack any object is solid testimony to the shorter text’s authenticity.
- John 6:47 tn Cf. John 6:40.
- John 6:48 tn That is, “the bread that produces (eternal) life.”
- John 6:49 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
- John 6:50 tn Or “Here.”
- John 6:50 tn Grk “someone” (τις, tis).
- John 6:51 tn Grk “And the bread.”
John 6:47-51
King James Version
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I 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.
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