EXODUS 16:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.”
When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, what is it? For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them: it is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. The question what is it — man hu in Hebrew — is the name of the food. Manna is the crystallized form of the question asked the first morning: what is this? The food that cannot be named by its recipients is named by their own puzzlement. John 6:35 records Jesus saying: I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry. He is speaking to a crowd that had just eaten the miraculous loaves — and His claim is that He is the manna these loaves signify, the true bread from heaven that the wilderness manna only prefigures. The bread the Lord has given you to eat is given its fullest meaning when Jesus claims to be it.
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