Exodus 16, 14 and 15 says, and when the dew that was lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the whore frost on the ground. 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. This is a pretty funny scene here, actually. The Jews see this manna, which is basically bread from heaven. And that's what the word manna eventually came to mean. People use it that way. But originally, the Jews saw this bread in small little chunks that God had left laying around to be picked up like berries and then used like wheat flour or eaten like small potato chips or something. And they didn't know what to make of it. So the word meaning, what is that, was manna. They said one to another, it is manna. It is, what is that? That's why it goes on to say, for they wist not what it was. Well, it was literally, as we said, bread from heaven, from the Lord. And little did they know at the time that God was using this little bread wafer, whatever size it was, to point his people to his Messiah, who we later know to be Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus would teach this in John chapter 6 verses 32 and 33. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. There's a lot packed into those words there from Jesus, but the basic truth is that Moses didn't give manna, God did, and in the same manner, God sent his son, Jesus, to be the bread of heaven in a spiritual sense. Then in the next two verses, John 6, 34 and 35, we read, then said they unto him, Lord evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. When Jesus refers to himself as the bread of life, he's pointing directly to the manna of Exodus 16 to show that manna was a prophetic type and picture of himself. Again, a few verses later in John 6, 49 to 51, Jesus is speaking and says, your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die, speaking about himself, as he says, I am the living bread which came down from heaven. And then he says, if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. That is why we know that Jesus isn't referring to communion bread. He isn't referring to the so-called Eucharist or the Mass, which teaches the superstitious, blasphemous lie that people are literally eating Jesus' skin when they partake of the wafer. His meaning is clear. later in the same chapter, John chapter 6 verses 57-58. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 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 forevermore. And he's already said that it means to believe on him. And people who don't understand this are used by Satan to obscure this truth. And they're demonstrating that, at worst, they're unsaved, unregenerate, lost souls. And at best, they're saved, but of a carnal mind and unable to understand God's word, as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 2.14, but the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But saved, Spirit-filled believers understand that man up pictures Jesus, who saves all who partake of Him by faith in the Gospel. And we embrace the promise of Revelation 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. Jesus is the bread of life and you eat or partake of him when you repent toward God with faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ believing how that Christ died for our sins and that he was buried and rose again according to the scriptures.