John 6:31

New Catholic Bible

³¹Our ancestors ate manna in the desert. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven^[a] to eat.’ ”

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Footnotes

John 6:31 Bread from heaven: see Ex 16:4, 15, 32-34; Ps 78:24. There was a belief that the manna had been hidden by Jeremiah (see 2 Mac 2:5-8) and would reappear at Passover in Messianic times.

John 6:31

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³¹^(A)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(B)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

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