“The multitude being urgent for bodily food and reminding Him of that which was given to their fathers He tells them that the manna was only a type of that spiritual food which was now to be tasted in reality I am that bread of life. He calls Himself the bread of life because He constitutes one life both present and to come. The addition In the wilderness is not put in without meaning but to remind them how short a time the manna lasted; only till the entrance into the land of promise. And becau