Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 4:32
But our blessed Lord was more intent upon gospelizing the Samaritans, than satisfying his hunger: what this meat was, he opens himself, (see 1 Thessalonians 4:34).
But our blessed Lord was more intent upon gospelizing the Samaritans, than satisfying his hunger: what this meat was, he opens himself, (see 1 Thessalonians 4:34).
Verse 32. _I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT OF._] Our blessed Lord seizes every opportunity to raise the minds of his apostles to heavenly things, through the medium of earthly matters. Nor does he...
I HAVE MEAT TO EAT - See John 4:34....
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. (John 4:1 .)_ 2. At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. (John 4:6 .) 3. The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. (John 4:27 .)...
THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES. The disciples return with the food they have bought. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman (_cf. Pirke Aboth,_ i. 5, Prolong not discourse with a woman). T...
HAVE MEAT TO EAT YE KNOW NOT OF. "Man shall not live by bread alone." The Lord who could go forty days in the wilderness without food, in the exaltation of soul caused by his baptism and the descent o...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
Meanwhile his disciples asked him: "Rabbi! Eat something! have food, he said to them, "of which you do not know." "Surely, his disciples kept saying to each other, "someone can't have given him someth...
MEAT. Greek. brosis. eating. Not the same word as in John 4:34. OF. Omit "of"....
Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in three different ways. (1) On _a priori_grounds. How could the Samaritans, who rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be ex...
_I have meat_, &c. The pronouns -I" and -ye" are emphatically opposed. His joy at the woman's conversion prompts Him to refuse food: not of course that His human frame could do without it, but that in...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ἘΓῺ … ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ. In emphatic opposition: they have their food; He has His. Joy at the fruit of His teaching prompts Him to refuse food; not of course that His human frame could do without it, but that in...
5–42. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different ways. (1) On a _priori_ grounds. How could the Samaritans, who rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews,...
THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the writer of ‘the Universal Gospel,’ mentions any...
VER 31. IN THE MEAN WHILE HIS DISCIPLES PRAYED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, EAT. 32. BUT HE SAID TO THEM, I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YOU KNOW NOT OF. 33. THEREFORE SAID THE DISCIPLES ONE TO ANOTHER, HAS ANY MAN...
_THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ Jesus knew all about this woman. He said to her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither." (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no...
ΒΡΏΣΙΝ (G1035) _асс. sing._ еда; возможно, процесс потребления пищи, но здесь синоним еды (Barrett), ΦΑΓΕΪΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ, _см._ John 4:31. Здесь _inf._ описывает цель приобретения хлеба....
IN THE MEAN WHILE HIS DISCIPLES PRAYED HIM,— While these things were doing, the disciples set the meat which they had bought, before their Master; but he regarded it not, though he then stood much in...
FIELDS WHITE UNTO HARVEST _Text 4:31-38_ 31 In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33 The disciples theref...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 4:31-42 We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we see:— "In the meanwhile His disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat...
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT OF. What spirituality of mind does this answer breathe! The pronouns, "I" a...
19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. Of course Jerusalem was right and Samaria was wrong, for God had chosen the cit...
THE SAMARITAN WOMAN 1-42. Christ in Samaria. The ministry in Samaria is recorded because it is the author's design to exhibit Christ as the Saviour, not only of Israel, but of the world (John 4:42)....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS TALKS TO A WOMAN IN *SAMARIA 4:1-26 V1 The *Pharisees heard that Jesus was *baptising more people than John the...
I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT OF. — The emphasis is on the pronouns, which are opposed to each other. “Meat” is better rendered _food_ (see Note on John 4:8). The Greek word here is the same as...
CHAPTER 11 THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. “In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to...
THE REWARDS OF SERVICE John 4:27-38 As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon our water pots. When we are saved, we must hasten with the tidings to those with whom we ha...
The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. The final explanation must be found in His dealing with the woman of Samaria. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l...
(4) But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. (4) We may have care of our bodies, but in such a way that we prefer willingly and freely the occasion which is offered us to enlarg...
CHAPTER 10 JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN John 4:1-41. _“When our Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus himself did not...
“ _In the mean while, the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat._ 32. _But he said unto them, I have meat to eat which ye know not._ ” John 4:31 (after the interruption of John 4:28-29), is connec...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XXI. The following points in John 4:27-38 may be noticed: 1. The impression produced upon the mind of the woman was that which came from the wonderful knowle...
SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. JESUS IN SAMARIA. The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. Unbelief on the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention greatly aroused, su...
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. J...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
32._I have food to eat which you know not. _It is wonderful that, when he is fatigued and hungry, he refuses to eat; for if it be said that he does this for the purpose of instructing us, by his examp...
And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true position in the dealings of God. He goes away into Galilee;...
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... That is, "Jesus", as the Persic, or the Lord Jesus, as the Ethiopic versions express it: I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT OF: meaning the conversion of the Samaritan wom...
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Ver. 32. _I have meat to eat, &c._] Abraham's servant would not eat till he had despatched, his errand, Genesis 24:33. When we are to wo...
_In the mean while_ Before the people came; _his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat_ They set the meat, which they had brought, before him, and requested him to partake of it, knowing how much...
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT OF....
The harvest in the kingdom of God:...
A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE (vs.1-26) The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as to His baptizing more disciples than John. Not that the Lord Himself did the...
27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and provid...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I "I," says the Lord, "have meat to eat that ye know not of. My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me."[94] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimon...
John 4:32 But G1161 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 I G1473 have G2192 (G5719) food G1035 eat...
‘Meanwhile the disciples begged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have meat to eat that you do not know about.” The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has any man brought him a...
THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). In this story of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4 Jesus depicts Himself as the Gift of God Who can give men living water (John 4:10), and can thus give men a spring of w...
John 4:32. BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE MEAT TO EAT THAT YE KNOW NOT. Literally, I have an ‘eating' to eat. The word for ‘meat' is in John 4:34 is different from that used here, which rather denotes...
The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus in chap. 3 is pursued in the account given us in this section of the interview of Jesus, first with the Samaritan woman, and then...
MEAT (βρωσιν). Originally the act of eating (Romans 14:17) from βιβρωσκω, but soon and commonly as that which is eaten like βρωμα once in John (verse John 4:34). So here and John 6:27;...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and de...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The indwelling Spirit. The nobleman's son healed. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the pharisees,_ chiefly priests, and many of them principal members of the council, _had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John._ The p...
I HAVE FOOD TO EAT THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. "Man cannot live on bread alone." After his baptism and being filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus went without food forty days during the Temptation. Hun...
_When therefore the Lord knew_ THE FIRST VISIT TO SAMARIA I. THE STORY ITSELF. 1. The memorable halt (John 4:1). 2. The surprising request (John 4:7). 3. The opened vista (John 4:10). 4.
_And upon this_ SOWING AND REAPING I. WITH A SOLITARY PUPIL. 1. Face-to-face work (John 4:27, John 1:42, John 21:16; Acts 3:4;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 4:32 FOOD TO EAT. See Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4;...
1-54 CHAPTER 4 _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c.... _than John_, that is, than John _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. 2 _, de cons. Evang., c._ 18), for John was now in prison. For thes...
_But He said_, &c. "I am hungering for the conversion of the Samaritans, which I am procuring through the woman. So that spiritual hunger diminishes and keeps down, if it does not take away, all hunge...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 4:27. MARVELLED.—The disciples evidently thought that Jesus would conduct Himself outwardly as did the Jewish rabbis. Those teachers said: “Do not prolong conver...
EXPOSITION JOHN 4:1 7. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the strict compass of the theocracy. _This passage describes an incident of consummate interest, and records a specime...
Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized none, but his disciples,) (John 4:1) Now this can mean one of t...
Acts 20:35; Isaiah 53:11; Jeremiah 15:16; Job 23:12; John 4:34;...
Meat (brwsin). Originally the act of eating (Colossians 2:16), but often of that which is eaten. A parallel is found in the vulgar phrase, a thing is good or poor eating. The word is always used by Pa...
MISSIONS IN THE GOSPELS John 4:28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories of the Word of God. It is beyond doubt a revelation of the heart of God to...