Devine Scripture

John 6:31

John chapter 6 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

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.

Context

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

v.31This passage

v.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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Nehemiah 9:20

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

  • 1 Corinthians 10:3

    and did all eat the same spiritual food;

  • Psalms 78:24

    And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.

  • Deuteronomy 8:3

    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.

  • Revelation 2:17

    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.

  • Nehemiah 9:15

    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.