John 4:8

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(For his disciples had gone 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 replied, 'We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all these people.'
  • John 4:5 : 5 So he came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  • John 4:39 : 39 Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony when she said, 'He told me everything I ever did.'
  • John 6:5-7 : 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, 'Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?' 6 He said this to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for everyone to have even a little.'

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  • John 4:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

    3he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

    4Now he had to pass through Samaria.

    5So he came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

    6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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

  • John 4:25-34
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    80%

    25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.

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

    27Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

    28Then the woman left her water jar, went into the city, and said to the people,

    29"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Christ?"

    30They left the city and were coming to him.

    31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something."

    32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

    33So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?"

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

  • John 4:9-13
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    9The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

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

    11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get this living water?

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

    13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

  • Mark 14:13
    74%

    13So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

  • John 4:15-16
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    15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

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

  • Mark 8:4
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    4The disciples answered him, 'Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy these people here in this deserted place?'

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

    5When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, 'Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?'

  • Mark 6:35-36
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    35By this time it was late in the day, so His disciples came to Him and said, 'This is a remote place, and it’s already very late.'

    36'Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.'

  • John 11:7-8
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    7Then after this, he said to the disciples, 'Let us go back to Judea.'

    8The disciples said to him, 'Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and you're going back there again?'

  • John 4:39-40
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    39Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony when she said, 'He told me everything I ever did.'

    40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

  • Matt 14:15
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    15When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, 'This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.'

  • John 4:43
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    43After two days, he left there and went to Galilee.

  • John 7:3
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    3So His brothers said to Him, 'Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the works You are doing.'

  • Luke 9:12-13
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    12As the day was coming to an end, the twelve approached him and said, 'Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.'

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

  • John 6:22
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    22The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

  • John 6:24
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    24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

  • Mark 8:1
    69%

    1During those days, a very large crowd gathered, and since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them,

  • John 11:54
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    54Jesus, therefore, no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim. And he stayed there with his disciples.

  • Luke 7:18
    69%

    18John's disciples reported all these things to him. Then John called two of his disciples.

  • John 6:52
    69%

    52Then the Jews argued sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'

  • Matt 15:33
    69%

    33His disciples replied, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”

  • Matt 16:5
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    5When the disciples reached the other side, they forgot to bring bread.

  • Mark 14:16
    69%

    16So the disciples went out and entered the city. They found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

  • Luke 9:52
    68%

    52He sent messengers ahead of him, and they went into a Samaritan village to prepare for his arrival.

  • John 20:10
    68%

    10Then the disciples went back to their homes.

  • John 3:22
    68%

    22After these things, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.