Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed,.... This they allow was done by him, for these are their words continued; suggesting, that though the waters did gush out upon smiting the rock, yet they might have been in the caverns of it before, and had remained there a long time, and might have come out of themselves; and therefore this was no such great matter, and might easily be accounted for:but can he give bread also?
solid, substantial bread, and not like this light bread, the manna, as they called it, Nu 21:5, can he give us bread of corn, in a wilderness which is not a place of seed, where no corn grows? can he do this?
this would show his power indeed:can he provide flesh for his people? for so great a multitude, and in a place where no cattle are?