John 6:31 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:31

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

On the Resurrection of the Flesh (220)

Now, just before (the passage in hand), He had declared His flesh to be "the bread which cometh down from heaven," impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary food the memory of their forefathers, who had preferred the bread and flesh of Egypt to their divine calling. Then, turning His subject to their reflections, because He perceived that they were going to be scattered from Him, He says: "The flesh profiteth nothing.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Our fathers - The Jews who were led by Moses through the wilderness. Did eat manna - This was the name given by the Jews to the food which was furnished to them by God in their journey. It means literally, “What is this?” and was the question which they asked when they first saw it, Exo 16:14-15. It was small like frost, and of the size of coriander-seed, and had a sweetish taste like honey.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Moses gave you not, &c.--"It was not Moses that gave you the manna, and even it was but from the lower heavens; 'but My Father giveth you the true bread,' and that 'from heaven.'"

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	The	G3588 →
πατέρες	pateres	fathers	G3962 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μάννα	manna	manna	G3131 →
ἔφαγον	ephagon	ate	G5315 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ	erēmō	wilderness	G2048 →
καθώς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
γεγραμμένον·	gegrammenon	written:	G1125 →
ἄρτον	arton	Bread	G740 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
ἔδωκεν	edōken	He gave	G1325 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	them	G846 →
φαγεῖν.¶	phagein	to eat.’	G5315 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Nehemiah 9:15
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:3–4
  They all ate the same spiritual food
- Deuteronomy 1:8
  See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
- Exodus 17:6
  Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
- Exodus 16:14–15
  When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
- Exodus 16:4
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I…
Through
Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:20–21
  You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- Joshua 5:12
  And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of…
Through
Psalms 105:40
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
leads to
- Psalms 78:18
  They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.