John 4:8 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:8

(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For his disciples were gone away,.... This is related, not so much to give a reason why Christ asked the woman for water, because his disciples were not present, to minister to him; but rather to show, that Christ took the opportunity, in their absence, to converse with her; partly to avoid the scandal and offence they might take, at his conversation with her, being a Samaritan; as it appears to have been astonishing to them, when they found him talking with her, Joh 4:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This woman's meeting with Christ at the well may remind us of the stories of Rebekah, Rachel, and Jethro's daughter, who all met with husbands, good husbands, no worse than Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, when they came to the wells for water. Thirdly, How the preventing grace of God sometimes brings people unexpectedly under the means of conversion and salvation.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But with all that is human, how much also of the divine have we here, both blended in one glorious manifestation of the majesty, grace, pity, patience with which "the Lord" imparts light and life to this unlikeliest of strangers, standing midway between Jews and heathens. the sixth hour--noonday, reckoning from six A.M.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	For	G1063 →
μαθηταὶ	mathētai	the disciples	G3101 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἀπεληλύθεισαν	apelēlutheisan	had gone away	G565 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
πόλιν	polin	city	G4172 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
τροφὰς	trophas	food	G5160 →
ἀγοράσωσιν.	agorasōsin	they may buy.	G59 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 4:5
So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
leads to
- Joshua 24:32
  And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…
- Genesis 33:19
  And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 48:22
  And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
Through
Luke 9:13
But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
leads to
- Proverbs 11:24–25
  One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- John 6:5–9
  When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
- 2 Kings 4:42–43
  Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- Mark 6:37–38
  But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”
Through
John 4:39
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
leads to
- John 4:29
  “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John