30‐31. Christ having declared the necessity of faith in Himself, they now ask for motives of credibility, and point to the great standing miracle wrought for their fathers in the desert. But whereas He had demanded faith in Himself: “That you believe _in Him_ whom He hath sent” (verse 29), they seem to miss the point, and speak not of believing in Him, but merely of believing Him, believing what He may have to say to them. They did not mention Moses, nor was the manna given by Moses; but our Lord’s reply shows that the comparison between Himself and Moses was in their minds. It is as if they said: You call upon us to believe you on the strength of the miracle wrought yesterday in the desert, whereas Moses fed our _whole race_ for _forty_ years with a bread _from heaven_. These people who speak thus, are probably different persons from those who on the preceding day recognised Christ as the Messias (verse 14). 32. Dixit ergo eis Iesus: 32. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen dico vobis: Non Amen, amen, I say to you: Moyses dedit vobis panem de Moses gave you not bread from coelo, sed Pater meus dat heaven, but my Father giveth vobis panem de coelo verum. you the true bread from heaven. 33. Panis enim Dei est qui de 33. For the bread of God is coelo descendit, et dat vitam that which cometh down from mundo. heaven, and giveth life to the world. 32‐33. They had asked for some great miracle (comp. Matt. xii. 38), but since they had already had sufficient evidence to enable them to believe, Christ does not gratify their desire, but proceeds to declare that it was not Moses who gave the manna, but God (see Ps. lxxvii. 21‐24); so that their tacit comparison of Moses with Himself is baseless. He then goes on to declare that His Father giveth them the true bread from heaven. This means, as we have already explained, that the Father gave us in the Incarnation what Christ gives us in the Eucharist, namely, the Person of the God‐man. That it is true or perfect bread, He proves from the fact that it comes, not like the manna from the clouds, but from heaven itself, and that it not merely _sustains_ the life of _one people_, but _gives_ life to the _world_. 34. Dixerunt ergo ad eum: 34. They said therefore unto Domine, semper da nobis panem him: Lord, give us always this hunc. bread. 35. Dixit autem eis Iesus: Ego 35. And Jesus said to them: I sam panis vitae, qui venit ad am the bread of life: he that me, non esuriet: et qui credit cometh to me shall not hunger; in me, non sitiet unquam. he that believeth in me, shall never thirst.