John 4:8

For His disciples had gone into the city, that they might purchase food.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7A woman comes from Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.

9A Samaritan woman says to Him, How do you, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?

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Cross References

Luke 9:13And He said to them, You give them to eat. And they said, There is not to us more than five loaves and two fishes; if not having gone we must purchase victuals for all this people.

John 4:39But many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him through the word of the woman, testifying that, He told me all things which I did. Then when the Samaritans came to Him they asked Him to abide with them:

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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