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John 4:8

World English Bible

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

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John 4:8 in other translations

For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

John 4:8 · American Standard Version

John 4:8 in context

  1. 6Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  2. 7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
  3. 8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
  4. 9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
  5. 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”