Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"
      (3.) He shows what encouragements we have to believe in Christ. Christ here speaks of some who  had seen him and yet believed not,  ; John 6:36. They saw his person and miracles, and heard him preach, and yet were not wrought upon to believe in him. Faith is not always the effect of sight; the soldiers were eye-witnesses of his resurrection, and yet, instead of  believing  in him, they  belied  him; so that it is a difficult thing to bring people to believe in Christ: and, by the operation of the Spirit of grace, those that  have not seen have yet believed.  Two things we are here assured of, to encourage our faith:—