John 6:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• John 6:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 me...

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• John 6:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Desire for a Sign: the True Manna. After raising their expectations He had refused to go forward. In answer to their surprise at finding Him so soon across the lake He tells them why. Their hop...

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• John 6:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Our fathers , &c. See Exodus 16:15 . Over half. million able for war; probably three millions in all. Numbers 2:32 . manna . the manna. as . according as. He gave , &c. Quoted from...

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• John 6:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  31. Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. Thus we see that Christ put his finger on the sore, when he told them that they came like brute beasts to fill their belly; for they discover thi...

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• John 6:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert - Their argument seems to run thus: Thou hast, we grant, fed...

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• John 6:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Our fathers did eat manna, &c.— By extolling the miracle of the manna, by calling it bread from heaven, and by insinuating that it was Moses's miracle, the Jews endeavoured to disparage Chris...

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• John 6:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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• John 6:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Bread of Life John 6:1 to John 7:1 . Feeding the five thousand. Walking upon the sea. Discourse upon the bread of life. Defection of many disciples. The Apostles stand firm. Returning from...

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• John 6:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Our fathers did eat manna. — He claims to be the Messiah; but the Messiah was to be greater than Moses, and the sign He has shown is less. The Messiah was to cause manna again to fall from heaven,...

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• John 6:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 14 JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE. John 6:1-59 . In this chapter John follows the same method as in the last. He first relates the sign, and then gives our Lord's interpretation of it. As to t...

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• John 6:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Father's Will Jesus' Law of Life John 6:30-40 On the day following, our Lord had to encounter, first the demand of the people for a continuation of the miracle of the preceding night, John...

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• John 6:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The whole chapter really records things resulting from the conflict recorded in the previous one. Having crossed the sea, Jesus first fed the multitude, and they, enamored of His ability, attempted t...

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• John 6:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with...

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• John 6:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Our fathers did eat manna in the wilderness ,.... Which was a sort of food prepared by angels in the air, and rained down from thence about the tents of the Israelites; it was a small round thing, a...

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• John 6:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Ver. 31. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert ] Here they bewray themselves, and confirm what...

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• John 6:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They said, What sign showest thou What miracle dost thou work; that we may see and believe thee? Since thou requirest us to give thee credit, and to regard thee as invested with a higher characte...

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• John 6:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (vs.1-13) The setting here is no longer Jerusalem, but Galilee, and the contrast to the beginning of chapter 5 is striking. For here grace shines out beautifully, availa...

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• John 6:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ the True Bread from Heaven; Christ Welcomes All that Come to Him; Necessity of Feeding upon Christ.       28 Then said they unto hi...

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• John 6:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Here they magnify Moses; he did not bring them a law only, but confirmed it by signs from heaven to be the will of God, by obtaining for them bread to be mined from heaven to satisfy their hunger,...

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• John 6:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Words to The Crowds ( John 6:26-40 ). Jesus' initial words were spoken to the crowds who had followed Him. These were the more simple folk whose thoughts were on more food, and miraculous provisio...

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• John 6:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 6:22-24 . None other boat, rather little ship (πλοιάριον).—The meaning of this long and complicated sentence is plain. A number of the crowd who had been pre...

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• John 6:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 6:1-5 . After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were di...

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• John 6:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 6:2 . A great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles. But being dull of apprehension, they seemed to have no idea that the Lord could feed the hungry, as well as heal the sick....

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• John 6:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The day following Jesus the Bread of Life I. OUR LORD’S AVOWAL OF HIS DIVINE NATURE AND HIS HEAVENLY ERRAND. More than thirty times in this one discourse does He use the personal pronouns “Me”...

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• John 6:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 6:1-43 2. Christ declares himself to be the Sustainer and Protector of the life of which he is the Source . John 6:1-43 (1) The supply of human wants illustrat...

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• John 6:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bread from heaven:

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• John 6:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:3 ; Deuteronomy 8:3 ; Exodus 16:35 ; Exodus 16:4-15 ; John 6:49 ; Joshua 5:12 ; Nehemiah 9:15 ; Nehemiah 9:20 ; Numbers 11:6-9 ; Psalms 105:40 ; Psalms 78:24 ; Psalms 78:...

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• John 6:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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,...

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