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John 4:34
Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
John 4:34 · Young's Literal Translation
John 4:34 in other translations
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
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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In context
31 And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'
32 and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'
33 The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'
34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.
36 `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
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