Charles Ellicott Commentary John 6:32

"Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven." — John 6:32 (ASV)

Moses gave you not that bread.—Again His solemn words bring to their thoughts the deeper reality which they are passing over. They had implied a contrast between their fathers and themselves, between Moses and Jesus.

They expressed the glory of the Mosaic sign in the language of the Psalm; but there the gift is ascribed to God, and it is named to mark the darkness of their unbelief.

The gift of God was always the same. It was He who gave then; it is He who always gives.

“You think of Moses; but Moses was the messenger of My Father. You speak of bread from heaven; but heaven is My home, from where I have come to give the true bread to the world, which in very truth is its sustenance.” (Compare, for the full sense of “true,” the Note on John 1:9.)