John 6:31

Our ancestors ate the food called manna that God provided for them by a miracle in the desolate area. This is written { The Psalmist wrote this} in the Scriptures about what Moses caused to happen: ‘He gave them food from heaven to eat.’ Will you perform a miracle like that?”

Translation for Translators

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

30So they said to him, “Then perform another miracle so that we may see it and believe that you came from God. What miracle would you like to perform?

32So Jesus said to them, “The truth is that it was not Moses who gave your ancestors that food from heaven. No, it was my Father who gave it to them. And my Father is the one who gives you the true food from heaven.

Read all of John 6

Cross References

Exodus 16:35The Israeli people were able to eat manna every day for 40 years, until they came to the border of Canaan land.

Deuteronomy 8:3So he caused you to have/experience difficulties. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna food from heaven, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food for their bodies; but they also need food for their spirits, which comes from paying attention to everything that Yahweh says [MTY].

Nehemiah 9:15When they were hungry, you gave them manna from the sky; and when they were thirsty, you gave them water from a rock. You commanded them to go and take, from the people who lived there, the land which you had promised to give to them.

Psalms 78:24and then food fell down like rain, food which they named ‘manna’; God gave them grain from ◄heaven/the sky►.

John 6:49Even though your ancestors ate the manna while they were traveling in the desolate area, they died anyway.

1 Corinthians 10:3All those ancestors of ours ate the same food that God miraculously provided.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 6:31