John 6:33
New International Version
For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

New Living Translation
The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

English Standard Version
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Berean Standard Bible
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Berean Literal Bible
For the bread of God is the One coming out of heaven and giving life to the world."

King James Bible
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

New King James Version
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

New American Standard Bible
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”

NASB 1995
“For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

NASB 1977
“For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Legacy Standard Bible
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Amplified Bible
For the Bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Christian Standard Bible
For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

American Standard Version
For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For The Bread of God is he who has descended from Heaven and gives life to the world.”

Contemporary English Version
And the bread that God gives is the one who came down from heaven to give life to the world."

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

English Revised Version
For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God's bread is the man who comes from heaven and gives life to the world."

Good News Translation
For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

International Standard Version
The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Literal Standard Version
for the bread of God is Him coming down out of Heaven, and giving life to the world.”

Majority Standard Bible
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

New American Bible
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

NET Bible
For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

New Revised Standard Version
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

New Heart English Bible
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

Webster's Bible Translation
For the bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

Weymouth New Testament
For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

World English Bible
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”

Young's Literal Translation
for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
32Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”…

Cross References
John 6:32
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

John 6:41
At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

John 6:50
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever."


Treasury of Scripture

For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.

cometh.

John 6:38,48
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me…

John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

John 8:42
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

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John 6
1. Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15. Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16. but withdrawing himself, he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26. reproves the people flocking after him, and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32. declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66. Many disciples depart from him.
68. Peter confesses him.
70. Judas is a devil.














(33) He which.--Better, that which. The identification with Himself does not occur before John 6:35. This verse is a fuller expression of the last clause of John 6:32, to which each term answers.

"My Father giveth" . . . . . "the bread of God."

"The (ideally) true bread" . . . . . "giveth life unto the world."

"From heaven" . . . . . "which cometh down from heaven."

The tenses are present. (Comp. Notes on John 6:50-51.) The manna in the wilderness was but one instance of that which is constant. The Jewish nation was but an unit in the Father's family. The bread of God ever cometh and ever giveth life, and the life which it giveth is for the world. Every word proceeding from the mouth of God, spoken in many portions and in many ways, was part of the true food for the true life of man.

Verse 33. - For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life to the world. It is debated whether the ὁ καταβαίνων is "he who cometh down," or "that (bread) which cometh," etc. - whether in this verse the Lord passes at once to the identification of himself with the bread, or for a moment longer is delaying the announcement, and broadly asserting the qualities of that "bread of God," viz. that whoever and whatever it is, IT comes from heaven, and gives life, not merely to the theocratic people, but to the whole world. (The latter is the view of Hengstenberg, Lange, Meyer, Westcott, Moulton; the former translation is partially urged by Godet, who thinks our Lord here spoke amphibologically, meaning both ideas, but by the form of the expression reserving the solution of the problem.) It certainly does not follow that, if he was speaking of himself, the expression καταβάς would have been used, because, in ver. 50, after he has removed all ambiguity, he still uses the present tense, ὁ καταβαίνων. The present tense is that of quality rather than of time. These characteristics of the veritable bread of God must hold good. It must have a heavenly origin, life-giving power, and universality of application to human need. John 3:16 is here repeated. The whole world is the object of the Divine grace and love. The bread of God must be a Divine gift, mysterious and heavenly in its origin, and must at once demonstrate its vitality, its Source, and its Giver.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

bread
ἄρτος (artos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 740: Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

He who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

comes down
καταβαίνων (katabainōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2597: To go down, come down, either from the sky or from higher land, descend. From kata and the base of basis; to descend.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

heaven
οὐρανοῦ (ouranou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

gives
διδοὺς (didous)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

life
ζωὴν (zōēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.

to the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world.”
κόσμῳ (kosmō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).


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