John 6:49

John 6:49. Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and died. No other bread has given life eternal. Even the manna, the bread given out of heaven, did not bestow life on their fathers, who (as the people themselves had said) ate the manna in the wilderness. It seems very probable that the addition ‘in the wilderness' is more than a mere repetition of the words of John 6:31. It recalls Numbers 14:35; Psalms 95:8-11, and other passages in which ‘the wilderness' is specially mentioned as the scene of disobedience and of death; and thus the fathers, who (Deuteronomy 1:32) ‘did not believe the Lord' and died, are contrasted with the believer who ‘hath eternal life' (John 6:47).