John 4:31
While the woman was in the town talking to the people there, Jesus’s followers said to him, “Teacher, you have to eat something.”
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
In Context
30The people heard what she said, and they left the town to go and see Jesus.
32But Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
Cross References
Acts 16:30Then he took Paul and Silas out of the jail, and he asked them, “Sirs, what can I do so that God will save me?”
Matthew Henry on John 4:28-43
Christ at the Well of Samaria. 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to… Read the whole commentary →