Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Your fathers did eat manna - There was a real miracle performed in their behalf; there was a perpetual interposition of God which showed that they were his chosen people.
And are dead - The bread which they ate could not save them from death. Though God interfered in their behalf, yet they died. We may learn,
1.That that is not the most valuable of God' s gifts which merely satisfies the temporal wants.
2.That the most distinguished temporal blessings will not save from death. Wealth, friends, food, raiment, will not preserve life.
3.There is need of something better than mere earthly blessings; there is need of that bread which cometh down from heaven, and which giveth life to the world.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing John 6:49:
Genesis 14:1-24
John 6:32
John 8:51
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