Matthew Poole and continuators on John 6:31

31 Our Fathers did eat Manna in the desart; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat .

Here they magnifie Moses; he did not bring them a Law onely, but confirmed it by Signs from Heaven, to be the Will of God, by obtaining for them Bread to be rained from Heaven to satisfie their Hunger, Exod. 16.15. Numb. 11.7. which is also confirmed by the Psalmist, Psal. 78.25. This Moses did for the whole Congregation of Israel forty Years together. From hence they would seem to conclude, That they had more ground to believe Moses than Christ; who, tho he had indeed lately fed five thousand with five Loaves, yet had done no such thing. Not considering that Moses, in what he did, was but an Instrument to obtain of God by Prayer such a Miracle, for supporting his People in the Wilderness; and that what he had done, was done by a Creating Power inherent in himself, by which he multiplyed that little proportion of Bread which they had, to make it sufficient to feed such a quantity as five thousand, besides Women and Children; to which effect it bare no proportion.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 10.3.