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1 Corinthians 10:3

And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

KJV

καὶ πάντες τὸ αὐτὸ πνευματικὸν βρῶμα ἔφαγον,

Greek NT

et omnes eamdem escam spiritalem manducaverunt,

Vulgate

and did all eat the same spiritual food;

ASV

And did all eat the same spiritual food:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βρῶμα
broma
noun · 17×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πνευματικός
pneumatikos
adjective · 26×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
φάγω
phago
verb · 93×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: πνευματικὸν βρῶμα | WH/Treg/NIV: πνευματικὸν βρῶμα | RP: βρῶμα πνευματικὸν
  • πνευματικὸν βρῶμαSBLGNT
  • πνευματικὸν βρῶμαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • βρῶμα πνευματικὸνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1094It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built,15 and then, that of the Apostles and the Fathers of the Church. This catechesis unveils what lay hidden under the letter of the Old Testament: the mystery of Christ. It is called "typological" because it reveals the newness of Christ on the basis of the "figures" (types) which announce…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Q. Are the bread and wine changed into the real body and blood of Christ? A. No. Just as the water of baptism is not changed into Christ's blood and does not itself wash away sins but is simply God's sign and assurance, so too the bread of the Lord's Supper is not changed into the actual body of Christ, even though it is called the body of Christ in keeping with the nature and …

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:24 — And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
  • Deut 7:9 — Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
  • Deut 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
  • Deut 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
  • Exod 16:4 — Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law,
  • Exod 16:4 — Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law,
  • Exod 16:15 — 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.
  • Exod 16:15 — 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.
  • Exod 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • John 6:31 — Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
  • John 6:49 — Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
  • Neh 9:15 — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hads
  • Neh 9:15 — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hads
  • Neh 9:20 — Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
  • Ps 78:23 — Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
  • Ps 91:6 — Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
  • Ps 105:40 — The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.