John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
Deuteronomy 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
Nehemiah 9:15And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Psalms 78:24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
1 Corinthians 10:3and all ate the same spiritual food,
Matthew Henry on John 6:29-60
Christ the True Bread from Heaven; Christ Welcomes All that Come to Him; Necessity of Feeding upon Christ. 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32… Read the whole commentary →