John 4:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Luke 9:13 : 13 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
  • John 4:5 : 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
  • John 4:39 : 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."
  • John 6:5-7 : 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

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  • John 4:2-7
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    2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),

    3 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

    4 He needed to pass through Samaria.

    5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

    6 Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

    7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

  • John 4:25-34
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    25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

    26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

    27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

    28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

    29 "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"

    30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

    31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

    32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

    33 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

    34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

  • John 4:9-13
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    9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

    10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

    11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

    12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"

    13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

  • 13 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

  • John 4:15-16
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    15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

    16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

  • 4 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

  • John 6:4-5
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    4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

    5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

  • Mark 6:35-36
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    35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

    36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

  • John 11:7-8
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    7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."

    8 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

  • John 4:39-40
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    39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

    40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

  • 15 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."

  • 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

  • 3 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

  • Luke 9:12-13
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    12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."

    13 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

  • 22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

  • 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

  • 1 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,

  • 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

  • 18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.

  • 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

  • 33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

  • 5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

  • 16 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

  • 52 and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

  • 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

  • 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.