John 4
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John 4:27-34

27Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”

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

29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

30So they left the town and began coming to him.

31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

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

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