John Chapter 4 verse 32 Holy Bible
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.
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But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.
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But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.
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But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
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But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
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and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - But he saith to them, I have food to eat that ye know not; of which you are ignorant, but which you may come to know by and by. Βρῶσιν and βρῶμα are both used. The first denotes, strictly speaking, the act of eating; and the second the material for food; but they are, in Greek literature, generally used almost interchangeably. There were Divine desires and sacred satisfactions which discriminated the Lord's consciousness from that of his disciples. Thoma refers to the mighty fasts of the great lawgiver and prophet as the literary antecedent of this significant event; but this superiority to food is true of every great soul. The men of the spirit are consumed with desires which dwarf the desires of the flesh, and they forget to eat their bread. Nor can we forget that the synoptic narrative places the forty dave' fast in this very epoch of Christ's life, chronologically speaking. (See note at end of this chapter.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) I have meat to eat that ye know not of.--The emphasis is on the pronouns, which are opposed to each other. "Meat" is better rendered food (see Note on John 4:8). The Greek word here is the same as in John 6:27; John 6:55.