1 Corinthians 10:3

1 Corinthians 10:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
• New International Version (NIV)They all ate the same spiritual food
• English Standard Version (ESV)and all ate the same spiritual food,
• New King James Version (NKJV)all ate the same spiritual food,

Context of 1 Corinthians 10:3

1Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:3 word by word

καὶ πάντες τὸ αὐτὸ πνευματικὸν βρῶμα ἔφαγονRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• didφαγεῖνphagō · to eatG5315
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• the sameαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• spiritualπνευματικόςpneumatikos · spiritualG4152
• meatβρῶμαbrōma · foodG1033

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 10:3

• Exodus 16:4Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
• Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
• Nehemiah 9:15You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; you brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land you had sworn to give them.
• Psalms 78:23He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.
• Psalms 105:40They asked, and he brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.
• John 6:22The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat. They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Spiritual meat - The manna which is here called spiritual. Because it was provided supernaturally; and, 2. Because it was a type of Christ Jesus, who speaking of it, John 6:31, etc., tells us that it was a type of that true bread which came down from heaven, which gives life to the world, John 6:33, and that himself was the bread of life, John 6:48.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3And did all eat the same spiritual meat - That is, “manna.” Exodus 16:15, Exodus 16:35; Nehemiah 9:15, Nehemiah 9:20. The word meat here is used in the old English sense of the word, to denote “food” in general. They lived on “manna.” The word “spiritual” here is evidently used to denote that which was given by the Spirit, or by God; that which was the result of his miraculous gift, and which was not produced in the ordinary way, and which was not the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4the same spiritual food: God provided food and water supernaturally in the wilderness for the Israelites (see Exodus 16:4–35; 17:1–7; Numbers 20:2–17). The Corinthians faced a similar situation. the spiritual rock that accompanied them: refers to the rock Moses struck to get water (Exodus 17:1–7; Numbers 20:2–17). Early Jewish tradition believed both miracles involved the same traveling rock. that rock was Christ: Paul explains Israel's experience as a…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. same spiritual meat--As the Israelites had the water from the rock, which answered to baptism, so they had the manna which corresponded to the other of the two Christian sacraments, the Lord's Supper. Paul plainly implies the importance which was attached to these two sacraments by all Christians in those days: "an inspired protest against those who lower their dignity, or deny their necessity" [Alford]. Still he guards against the other extreme of…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Spiritual Meat
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• Eschatology of the New Testament
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• Paul, the Apostle
• Sacraments

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings