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

1My Christian friends, remember what happened to our Israelite ancestors. Moses led them out of Egypt long ago. While they followed Moses, they all walked under the same cloud. All of them walked across the Red Sea. 2It is like God baptized all of them in the cloud and in the sea. In that way, they became people who followed Moses. All our ancestors ate the same spiritual food. 4All of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank water from the spiritual rock that went with them. Christ was that rock. 5They all received the same help from God, but most of them did not please God. God caused most of them to die 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 will cause bread to fall down from the sky for you like rain. Each day, the people must go out and pick up enough bread for that day. In this way I will test them. I will discover whether they will obey my rules.
• Deuteronomy 8:3He caused you to become hungry and then he fed you with manna. Neither you nor your ancestors had ever seen this food before. In this way, he taught you that food alone cannot cause people to live. They need to hear every word that the Lord speaks. That is what gives them true life.
• Nehemiah 9:15You gave your people bread from heaven when they were hungry. You gave them water from a rock to drink when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go to the land that you had promised to give them. You told them to take it for themselves.
• Psalms 78:23So God commanded the clouds high above to give food to his people. He caused the skies to open like a door.
• Psalms 105:40When they asked him for food, he gave them quails to eat. He fed them with bread from the sky.
• John 6:22The crowd of people had stayed on the other side of the lake. The next day, they saw that the only boat had gone. They knew that Jesus' disciples had taken it. They also knew that Jesus had not gone with his disciples.

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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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