John 6:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

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  • Exod 16:4 : 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.
  • Exod 16:8 : 8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
  • Ps 78:23 : 23 And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
  • John 6:33 : 33 The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
  • John 6:35 : 35 And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
  • John 6:41 : 41 Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
  • John 6:50 : 50 The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
  • John 6:55 : 55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.
  • John 6:58 : 58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
  • John 15:1 : 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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  • John 6:30-31
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    89%

    30 So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

    31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

  • John 6:33-36
    4 verses
    88%

    33 The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

    34 Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

    35 And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

    36 But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

  • John 6:57-59
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    84%

    57 As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

    58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

    59 Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum.

  • John 6:46-55
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    84%

    46 Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

    47 Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

    48 I am the bread of life.

    49 Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

    50 The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

    51 I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

    52 Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

    53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

    54 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

    55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

  • John 6:41-42
    2 verses
    79%

    41 Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

    42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

  • John 6:26-27
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    26 Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

    27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

  • Exod 16:15
    76%

    15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

  • Exod 16:32
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    32 And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 16:4
    73%

    4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

  • John 4:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32 But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

    33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • Ps 78:24
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    24 And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

  • John 6:65
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    65 And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    72%

    36 Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

    37 But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

  • John 6:5
    72%

    5 Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

  • Matt 6:11
    72%

    11 Give us this day bread for our needs.

  • Deut 8:3
    72%

    3 And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

  • John 1:17
    71%

    17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

  • Mark 14:22
    71%

    22 And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

  • John 6:38
    71%

    38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    71%

    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

    4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Neh 9:15
    71%

    15 And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Matt 26:26
    70%

    26 And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

  • John 5:45
    70%

    45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

  • John 7:19
    70%

    19 Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

  • John 8:42
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    42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

  • John 8:23
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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • Matt 15:33
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    33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • John 6:23
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    23 Some other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had taken the bread after the Lord had given praise.

  • Matt 16:11
    70%

    11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

  • Matt 14:16
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    16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.