32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples began to say[a] to one another, “No one brought him anything[b] to eat, did they?”[c] 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:33 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
  2. John 4:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 4:33 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “did they” in the translation