John 4:26-34

²⁶Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am the Messiah!”

²⁷Just then we disciples returned from town. Since it was contrary to our custom for Jewish religious teachers to converse with a woman they did not know, we were surprised that he was talking to a woman. However, none of us asked her, “What do you want?” and none of us asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸The woman left her water jar there and went into the town. She said to the people there,

²⁹“Come and see a man who was able to tell me all about my past life HYP, even though I never met him before Could this man be the Messiah?”

³⁰So many people left the town and started going to where Jesus was.

³¹Meanwhile, we disciples were urging him, “Teacher, eat some of the food we brought!”

³²But he said to us, “I have food to eat that you do not know anything about!”

³³So we started saying to each other, “◄Surely no one has brought him any food when we were not here!/Has anyone brought him any food when we were not here?► RHQ”

³⁴Jesus said to us, “Doing what my Father who sent me wants me to do and finishing the work he gave me to do is ◄ what sustains me/like my food► MET.