John 4:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

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  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
  • Prov 18:20 : 20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

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    33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

    34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

  • 31 While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

  • 5 So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.

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    41 And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?

    42 And they gave him a bit of cooked fish.

    43 And before their eyes he took a meal.

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    16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

    17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

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    12 Jesus said to them, Come and take some food. And all the disciples were in fear of putting the question, Who are you? being conscious that it was the Lord.

    13 Then Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish in the same way.

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

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  • John 6:26-27
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    26 Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

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    54 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

    55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

  • 13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

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    31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

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    33 The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

    34 Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

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    32 And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.

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    3 But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

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    36 Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

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  • 16 And they said to one another, We have no bread.

  • 7 And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

  • 18 I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.

  • 4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

  • 43 And he gave them special orders that they were not to say anything of this; and he said that some food was to be given to her.