He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
⛓ Read Psalm 78 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He rained down manna... grain of heaven... bread of the mighty' interprets the manna as heavenly bread, close to Paul's 'spiritual food.' The psalm's theological reading of the wilderness gifts coheres with Paul's, making it a plausible mediating source alongside Exodus 16.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Asaph's 'he rained down manna... gave them grain of heaven... bread of the angels' is the psalm John will quote at v.31; its presence governs the feeding as the eschatological manna. High Coherence: the crowd reads the sign as a renewed wilderness banquet.
High confidence