Lintel of the Capernaum Synagogue

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The Urantia Book notes the following in the paper recounting the epochal sermon which Jesus delivered at the Capernaum synagogue:

153:2.8 And then said Jesus, pointing up to the device of a pot of manna which decorated the lintel of this new synagogue, and which was embellished with grape clusters: "You have thought that your forefathers in the wilderness ate manna--the bread of heaven--but I say to you that this was the bread of earth. While Moses did not give your fathers bread from heaven, my Father now stands ready to give you the true bread of life. The bread of heaven is that which comes down from God and gives eternal life to the men of the world. And when you say to me, Give us this living bread, I will answer: I am this bread of life. He who comes to me shall not hunger, while he who believes me shall never thirst. You have seen me, lived with me, and beheld my works, yet you believe not that I came forth from the Father. But to those who do believe--fear not. All those led of the Father shall come to me, and he who comes to me shall in nowise be cast out.