Bread biography manna from heavenly man

When the Israelites fled Egypt, after over four hundred years of slavery, they spent forty years wandering in the wilderness before they entered the Promised Land. During this time, God provided substance for them to eat every day in the form of quail meat and manna Exodus If they grabbed too much or too little, they suffered the consequences Exodus We see manna first introduced in Exodus Right before this, the Israelites complained to Moses, saying he brought them out to the desert to die, with no food substance.

Numbers describes what the Israelites did with this bread from heaven. They made it into cakes, boiled it, and ground it into flour. Deuteronomy , which Jesus later quotes when tempted by Satan, mentions these provisions from God — although it also mentions that man does not live by bread alone.

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Even if we fulfill our physical needs, we have spiritual needs as well. John makes mention of manna as well. On the other hand, the bread of life Jesus prevents spiritual death. Another psalm, Psalm , talks about how God cared for the needs of the Israelites in the wilderness. However, Jesus does make an emphasis of bread throughout his ministry.

He primarily refers to himself as the bread of life John and explains that we need the true bread from heaven for our spiritual survival. Jesus also breaks bread during the last supper to show his body would be broken for us 1 Corinthians We do know it was sweet and looked like small white coriander seeds. Some have conjectured it was made from a sweet beetle cocoon that grows on green leaves in desert plants.