John 4:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus saith unto them,My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. ”

• John 4:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 to that place weary and thirsty, and at the usu...

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• John 4:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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)...

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• John 4:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  meat. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Species), App-6, for all kinds of food. Greek. broma. Not the same word as in John 4:33 . to do . in order to do. Emphasizing the object and end, n...

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• John 4:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  34. 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 takes greater delight, or in which he is more cheerf...

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• John 4:34 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1620 CHRIST’S DILIGENCE IN SERVING GOD John 4:34 . Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work . OUR blessed Lord, throughout his who...

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• John 4:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me - In these words, our blessed Lord teaches a lesson of zeal...

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• John 4:34 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• John 4:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Jesus saith unto them, My meat, х emon ( G1700 ) brooma ( G1033 )]. Here, again, the "My...

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• John 4:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 4:4...

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• John 4:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  My meat. — Better, My food, as before ( John 4:8 ). To do the will.... to finish. — Better, that I may do the will,... that I may finish. These verbs point out the end which He ever kept in...

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• John 4:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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 on...

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• John 4:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• John 4:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• John 4:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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....

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• John 4:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus saith unto them ,.... His disciples: my meat is to do the will of him that sent me . The Ethiopic version reads, "of my Father that sent me", and who is undoubtedly intended. Now as food is...

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• John 4:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Ver. 34. My meat is to do the will ] Job, Job 23:12 , preferred it before his necessary food, that s...

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• John 4:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 4:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• John 4:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ at the Well of Samaria.       27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, W...

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• John 4:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our Lord, without any reproof of them for their dulness in understanding, and having compassion on their infirmity and ignorance, tells them what he meant by his former words; telling them, that the...

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• John 4:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Samaritan Woman ( John 4:4-42 ). In this story of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4-42 Jesus depicts Himself as the Gift of God Who can give men living water ( John 4:10 ), and can thus give m...

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• John 4:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 c...

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• John 4:34 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 4:1-4 . 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,...

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• John 4:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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. Th...

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• John 4:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

  When therefore the Lord knew The first visit to Samaria I. THE STORY ITSELF. 1. The memorable halt ( John 4:1-6 ). 2. The surprising request ( John 4:7-9 ). 3. The opened vista ( John...

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• John 4:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 4:1-43 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 re...

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• John 4:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The harvest in the kingdom of God:

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• John 4:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 20:35 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Isaiah 61:1-3 ; Job 23:12 ; John 17:4 ; John 19:30 ; John 4:32 ; John 5:36 ; John 6:33 ; John 6:38 ; Luke 15:10 ; Luke 15:4-6 ; Luke 19:10 ; Psalms 40:8

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• John 4:34 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Missions in the Gospels John 4:28-42 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 o...

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• John 4:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  My meat — That which satisfies the strongest appetite of my soul.

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