John 4:8

Now his disciples had gone into the city to buy for them meat.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

In Context

7There came a woman from Shomreen to draw waters, and Jeshu said to her, Give me waters to drink.

9The woman, the Shomroytha, saith to him, How (canst) thou who art a Jihudoya ask drink of me who am a woman, a Shomroytha? For the Jihudoyee have no accommodation with the Shomroyee.

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Cross References

Luke 9:13Jeshu said to them, Give you them to eat. But they said, We have nothing more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we go and buy food for all this people:

John 4:39Now of that city many Shomroyee believed in him, because of the saying of that woman, who testified, He told me every thing that I have done.

Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →

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