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Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
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More Than Physical Food
Commentators explain that Jesus wasn't just being poetic. He found genuine, life-giving satisfaction in doing God's will, a spiritual nourishment that was more fulfilling than physical food. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Ellicott note that this divine purpose could make him forget his own hunger and fatigue, demonstrating that our ultimate sustenance comes from aligning with God's mission.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My meat. Jesus here explains what he said in John 4:32. His great object—the great design of his life—was to do the will of God. He came t…
To do the will (ινα ποιησω το θελημα). Non-final use of ινα and the first aorist active subjunctive as subject or predicate nomina…
19th Century
Anglican
My meat.—Better, My food, as before (John 4:8).
To do the will... to finish.—Better, …
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Baptist
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with he…
The disciples were mainly interested in Jesus’ physical welfare. He must have been exhausted by the travel of the morning. They were amazed that he…
16th Century
Protestant
My food is to do the will of him who sent me. He means not only that he esteems it very highly, but that there is nothing in which he take…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Jesus says to them His disciples:
my meat is to do the will of him that sent me.
The disciples wondered that Christ talked so with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason and for some good end. So, when particular…
13th Century
Catholic
Since the disciples were slow to understand the Lord’s figure of speech, the Lord now explains it.
First, we have its explanation,…
