³⁰So they asked him, “What sign^y then will you give that we may see it and believe you?^z What will you do? ³¹Our ancestors ate the manna^a in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^c”^b

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Footnotes

c Exodus 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Psalm 78:24, 25

Cross references

ySee Jn 2:11
zSee Mt 12:38
a Nu 11:7–9
b Ex 16:4, 15; Ne 9:15; Ps 78:24; 105:40

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

NLTNew Living Translation

They answered, “Show us a miraculous sign if you want us to believe in you. What can you do? After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So they said to him, “Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see it and believe you? What will you do? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’

KJV 1900King James Version

They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

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