Bible Cross References
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
Exodus 16:4
The LORD said to Moses, "Now I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.
Exodus 16:15
When the Israelites saw it, they didn't know what it was and asked each other, "What is it?" Moses said to them, "This is the food that the LORD has given you to eat.
Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna for the next forty years, until they reached the land of Canaan, where they settled.
Deuteronomy 8:3
He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the LORD says.
Nehemiah 9:15
"When they were hungry, you gave them bread from heaven, and water from a rock when they were thirsty. You told them to take control of the land which you had promised to give them.
Nehemiah 9:20
In your goodness you told them what they should do; you fed them manna and gave them water to drink.
Psalm 78:23-25
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But he spoke to the sky above and commanded its doors to open;
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he gave them grain from heaven, by sending down manna for them to eat.
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So they ate the food of angels, and God gave them all they wanted.
Psalm 105:40
They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.
John 6:22-58
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Next day the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that there had been only one boat there. They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.
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Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
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When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.
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When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"
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Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.
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Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."
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So they asked him, "What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?"
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Jesus answered, "What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent."
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They replied, "What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
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Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "
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"I am telling you the truth," Jesus said. "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven.
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For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
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"Sir," they asked him, "give us this bread always."
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"I am the bread of life," Jesus told them. "Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.
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Now, I told you that you have seen me but will not believe.
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Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,
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because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
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And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day.
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For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."
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The people started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."
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So they said, "This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?"
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Jesus answered, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.
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People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.
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The prophets wrote, 'Everyone will be taught by God.' Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.
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This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father.
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I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.
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I am the bread of life.
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Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.
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But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."
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This started an angry argument among them. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.
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Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day.
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For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink.
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.
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The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.
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This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."