15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 2 earlier texts.

• Ps 78:24 · adapted
  "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven."
  Psalm 78: he gave them bread from heaven to eat — crowd quotes to Jesus
• Exod 16:4 · paraphrase
  "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, or no."
  Exodus: bread from heaven — Jesus paraphrases in bread of life discourse

• Manna as type of Christ

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

• 1Cor 10:3 — And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
• 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 16:15 — 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 6:49 — Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
• John 6:58 — This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
• John 6:58 — This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
• Josh 5:12 — And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
• Matt 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
• Matt 6:11 — Give us this day our daily bread.
• 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.
• Num 11:6 — But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
• Ps 78:24 — And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
• Ps 78:24 — And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
• Ps 105:40 — The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
• Ps 105:40 — The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
• Rev 2:17 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name w