Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - John 4:32

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - John 4:32 - 4:32

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - John 4:32 - 4:32

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32. ἐγὼ … ὑμεῖς. In emphatic opposition: they have their food; He has His. Joy at the fruit of His teaching prompts Him to refuse food; not of course that His human frame could do without it, but that in His delight He for the time feels no need of it. Βρῶστς is rather ‘eating’ than food, which is Βρῶμα, as in Joh 4:34; comp. Joh 6:27; Joh 6:55. S. Paul accurately distinguishes the two; Col 2:16; Rom 14:17; 1Co 8:4; 2Co 9:10; so also Heb 12:16 : πόσις and πόμα the same; Rom 14:17; 1Co 10:3; also Heb 9:10.

οὐκ οἴδατε. Know not; not (as A.V.) ‘know not of,’ which spoils the sense. The point is, not that He has had food without their knowledge, but a kind of food of which they have no conception.