John 6:31 - Revised Standard Version CI

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as the Scripture says, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat. [Exod. 16:15; Neh. 9:15; Ps. 78:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Common English Bible

³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "

John 6:31 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:15

Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9:20

Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Psalm 105:40

They asked, and he brought quails, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.

Exodus 16:35

And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

John 6:32

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

John 6:49

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

John 6:58

This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever.”

1 Corinthians 10:3

and all ate the same supernatural food

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Joshua 5:12

And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.’