Juan 6:49

49 Sus antepasados comieron maná en el desierto, pero todos murieron,

Juan 6:49 Meaning and Commentary

John 6:49

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness
All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness. It is observable, that Christ says, not "our fathers", but "your fathers"; for though Christ, as concerning the flesh, came of these fathers, yet in every sense they were rather theirs than his; because regard may be had to such of them more especially who ate the manna as common food, and not as spiritual meat, as typical of the Messiah, as others did; and whom these, their offspring, did very much resemble. Though perhaps the reason of the use of this phrase may be, because the Jews themselves had used it in ( John 6:31 ) , and Christ takes it up from them.

And are dead.
This food, though it supported them in life for a while, could not preserve them from a corporeal death, and still less from an eternal one: for some of them not only died the first, but the second death.

Juan 6:49 In-Context

47 »Les digo la verdad, todo el que cree, tiene vida eterna.

48 ¡Sí, yo soy el pan de vida!

49 Sus antepasados comieron maná en el desierto, pero todos murieron,

50 sin embargo, el que coma el pan del cielo nunca morirá.

51 Yo soy el pan vivo que descendió del cielo. Todo el que coma de este pan vivirá para siempre; y este pan, que ofreceré para que el mundo viva, es mi carne».