In John 6 Christ describes the manna coming down from heaven as a type of His coming down from Heaven to bring life to the world.
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
"I am the bread of life.
"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
"This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
"I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."—John 6:38;48-51
As the manna was despised by the Israelites so Christ the bread of life was despised by their descendants.
"but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!"
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him
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