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John 6:57-59
Lexham English Bible
John 6:57-59
Lexham English Bible
57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats[a] me—that one will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats[b] this bread will live forever.”[c]
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59 He said these things while[d] teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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- John 6:57 This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
- John 6:58 This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
- John 6:58 Literally “for the age”
- John 6:59 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal
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