our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, "he gave them bread from heaven to eat."

I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and yet died.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

this is that bread which came down from heaven: very different from that manna, which your fathers did eat but died nevertheless: he that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever.

And they all ate the same spiritual food [i.e., the supernatural manna. See Ex. 16:4-5],

as it is written [Ex. 16:18], "The person who gathered much [i.e., manna] did not have any left over, and the one who gathered [only] a little [still] had plenty."

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

Let him that hath ears hear what the spirit sayth unto the congregations: To him that overcometh will I give to eat Manna that is hid, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it.'