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 five thousand men with five loaves and two small fishes; but what is this in comparison of what Moses did in the desert, who for forty years fed more than a million of persons with bread from heaven: do something like this, and then we will believe in thee, as we have believed in Moses.