John 6:49

Bible in Basic English 1965

Your fathers took the manna in the waste landand they are dead.

Cross References

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

Numbers 26:65

For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

John 6:31

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

John 6:58

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

Jude 1:5

Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

Revelation 2:17

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.