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What does John 4:34 mean?
"Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work."
— John 4:34 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
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