John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
Deuteronomy 8:3He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that m not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
Nehemiah 9:15And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.
Psalms 78:24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.
John 6:49Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.
1 Corinthians 10:3And did all eat 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 →