John 4:34

Jesus said to us, “Doing what my Father who sent me wants me to do and finishing the work he gave me to do is ◄ what sustains me/like my food► [MET].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

In Context

33So we started saying to each other, “◄Surely no one has brought him any food when we were not here!/Has anyone brought him any food when we were not here?► [RHQ]”

35At this time of the year you are saying (OR, your ancestors used to say), ‘There are four months left before we harvest the crops.’ But I say to you, look carefully at the non-Jewish people around here. God says, ‘They are ready to accept my message [MET], like crops in fields that are ready for people to harvest.

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Cross References

Job 23:12I have always obeyed what he [SYN] commanded; I have treasured the words that he has spoken.

Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of Yahweh our Lord is on me; he has appointed [MTY] me to bring good news to those who are oppressed, to comfort those who are discouraged, to free all those who are as though they are chained/tied [DOU] by the wrong things that they continually do.

Matthew 26:39After going a little further, he threw himself face down on the ground. He prayed, “My Father, if it is possible [MTY], do not make me have to endure the suffering that is coming now. But do not do as I want. Instead, do as you want!”

Luke 15:10I tell you that similarly the angels will be happy about even just one sinner who turns from doing evil.”

John 4:32But he said to us, “I have food to eat that you do not know anything about!”

John 5:36But there is something else that tells you about me. It should prove who I am more than what John said about me. The miracles [PRS] that my Father told me to do, the miracles that I am performing, show (OR, prove) to people that my Father sent 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 →

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