strive] for higher than your temporal concerns for food and for a king.
prophet like Moses(6:14) and to make him their king (6:15), yet apparently not sufficient enough to accept him as having authority to claim to speak on behalf of God contrary to their expectations; they require more proof. It reveals that
like Mosesdoes not imply that authority, and therefore that their conception of the
prophet like Moses, and therefore of Moses himself, is primarily of a temporal provider.
What are you working?
He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven(NLT). (See also Neh. 9:15:
You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst...[ESV].)
prophet like Moses(Dt. 18:15)
who comes into the world(Jn. 6:14). The manna from heaven was material provision, giving scriptural validity to their expectations of a temporal provider in response to Jesus' reproach in 6:26.
in the last dayimplies
from the dead,see John 5:28-29:
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his [the Son's] voice and come out...(ESV). See also 5:21, 25.