John 4:8

And his disciples had gone to the city, to buy themselves food.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me water to drink.

9The Samaritan woman said to him: How dost thou, a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews have no familiarity with Samaritans.

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Cross References

Luke 9:13Jesus said to then: Give ye them to eat. And they say: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless we go and buy food for all this people:

John 4:39And many Samaritans of that city believed on him, because of the discourse of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.

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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