John 6:42

Plain English Version

They said to each other, “We know this man Jesus. He is Joseph’s son. We know his mother and father. Why does he say, ‘I came down from heaven?’ That can’t be right.”

Cross References

Luke 4:22

All those people started talking together. They said good things about Jesus, and they said, “Wow. He talked real good. But we know this man, he is Joseph’s son.”

John 1:45

Philip went to his friend Nathaniel and said to him, “We have found the special man that Moses wrote about in our Jewish law books. And God’s other messengers talked about this man too. His name is Jesus. He is from the town called Nazareth, and he is the son of Joseph.”

John 3:13

I am the only person here that has been in heaven. I am the special man from God. I came down from heaven. So you have to believe what I say.

John 6:38

I didn’t come down from heaven just to do my own ideas. I came here to do everything my father sent me to do.

John 6:43

Jesus said to them, “Stop complaining to each other about me.

John 6:62

Then what will you think if you see me going up, back to the place I came from? I am the special man that came down from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:47

And think about Adam. He was the 1st man, and he came from the ground. But Jesus, the 2nd man, came from heaven.

Galatians 4:4

And just like that little kid, we had to wait for the right time to come. Then, when the right time came, God sent his own son from heaven to the earth. He was born from a normal woman into the Jewish nation, and he did what the Jewish law said.