John 6:31

American Standard Version (1901)

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

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  • Neh 9:15 : 15 and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
  • Ps 105:40 : 40 They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  • 1 Cor 10:3 : 3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.
  • Ps 78:24-25 : 24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven. 25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
  • John 6:58 : 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
  • Neh 9:20 : 20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
  • Exod 16:4-9 : 4 Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. 5 And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt; 7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. 9 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah; for he hath heard your murmurings. 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. 11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God. 13 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • Num 11:6-9 : 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon. 7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium. 8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
  • Deut 8:3 : 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
  • Josh 5:12 : 12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

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  • John 6:32-35
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    32Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.

    33For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

    34They said therefore unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

    35Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

  • John 6:48-53
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    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

    51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

    52The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

    53Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

  • John 6:57-59
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    57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

    58This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

    59These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

  • Exod 16:15-16
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    15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

    16This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded. Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.

  • Ps 78:24-25
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    24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.

    25Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.

  • John 6:41-42
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    41The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.

    42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

  • Exod 16:31-32
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    31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers [made] with honey.

    32And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

  • John 6:30
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    30They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?

  • Neh 9:15
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    15and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

  • John 6:26-27
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    26Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.

    27Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

  • Num 11:6
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    6but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.

  • Deut 8:3
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    3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

  • Deut 8:16
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    16who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

  • Exod 16:4
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    4Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

  • Exod 16:35
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    35And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    36send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

    37But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread, and give them to eat?

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests alone?

  • Matt 6:11
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    11Give us this day our daily bread.

  • Num 11:9
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    9And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

  • Matt 15:33
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    33And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?

  • John 4:31-33
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    31In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

    32But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

    33The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?

  • Ps 105:40
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    40They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

  • Mark 8:4
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    4And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?

  • John 6:5
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    5Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat?

  • Matt 4:4
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    4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

  • John 6:13
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    13So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten.

  • Luke 11:3
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    3Give us day by day our daily bread.

  • Josh 5:12
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    12And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

  • John 6:23
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    23(howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks):

  • John 6:11
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    11Jesus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes as much as they would.