John 4:31
Meanwhile, we disciples were urging him, “Teacher, eat some of the food we brought!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
In Context
30So many people left the town and started going to where Jesus was.
32But he said to us, “I have food to eat that you do not know anything about!”
Cross References
Matthew 23:7Also, they want people to greet them respectfully in the marketplaces and to honor them by calling them ‘Teacher’.
Acts 16:30Then he brought Paul and Silas out of the jail and asked: “Sirs, what do I need to do to be saved from being punished for my sins?”
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 →