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30 So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?(A) 31 [a]Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:(B)

‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:31 Bread from heaven: cf. Ex 16:4, 15, 32–34 and the notes there; Ps 78:24. The manna, thought to have been hidden by Jeremiah (2 Mc 2:5–8), was expected to reappear miraculously at Passover, in the last days.

30 So they asked him, “What sign(A) then will you give that we may see it and believe you?(B) What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna(C) in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[a](D)

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  1. John 6:31 Exodus 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Psalm 78:24,25