John 6:31
“Our fathers did eate Manna in the desert, as it is written, He gaue them bread from heauen to eate.”
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John 6:31 Context
29Iesus answered, and said vnto them, This is the worke of God, that ye beleeue on him whom he hath sent. 30They said therefore vnto him, What signe shewest thou then, that we may see, and beleeue thee? What doest thou worke? 31Our fathers did eate Manna in the desert, as it is written, He gaue them bread from heauen to eate. 32Then Iesus said vnto them, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Moses gaue you not that bread from heauen, but my Father giueth you the true bread from heauen. 33For the bread of God is hee which commeth downe from heauen, and giueth life vnto the world.
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Other Translations for John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- King James Version
"Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'HE GAVE THEM BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN TO EAT.'"
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.
- Basic English Bible
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
- Darby Bible
Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- Webster's Bible
Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written, `He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'."
- Weymouth Bible
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
- World English Bible
Oure fadris eeten manna in desert, as it is writun, He yaf to hem breed fro heuene to ete.
- Wycliffe Bible
our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for John 6:31
6:31 Our fathers ate manna - This sign Moses gave them. He gave them bread from heaven - From the lower sublunary heaven; to which Jesus opposes the highest heaven: in which sense he says seven times, #John 6:32|,33,38,50,58,62, that he himself came down from heaven.
People's Bible Notes for John 6:31
Joh 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert. He may have fed a few thousands on the day before, but what was that to feeding of the whole host of Israel for forty years in the wilderness? Is he as great a leader as Moses, in whose time the manna fell?