John 6:47-49

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. John 6:47 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
2. John 6:47 tc Most witnesses (A C² D Ψ ƒ^1,13 33 M lat and other versions) have “in me” (εἰς ἐμέ, eis eme) here, while the Sinaitic and Curetonian Syriac versions read “in God.” These clarifying readings are predictable variants, being motivated by the scribal tendency toward greater explicitness. That the earliest and best witnesses (P^66,75vid א B C* L T W Θ 892) lack any object is solid testimony to the shorter text’s authenticity.
3. John 6:47 tn Cf. John 6:40.
4. John 6:48 tn That is, “the bread that produces (eternal) life.”
5. John 6:49 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”