John 4:8
Good News Translation
His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)

New Revised Standard Version
(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)

New American Bible
His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

to buy.

John 6:5-7 When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? . . .

Luke 9:13 But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

Context
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink. 8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. 9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.…
Cross References
John 2:2
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

John 4:5
He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

John 4:7
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

John 4:27
And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?

John 4:39
Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.

John 4:7
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