“Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?”
Then his disciples said to each other, 'Could someone have brought him food?' — the disciples' literal misunderstanding is exactly what John intends to satirize. They cannot yet perceive the deeper reality: that Jesus lives by doing the Father's will.
Church Fathers on John 4:33
In the mean while His disciples prayed Him, saying, Master, eat.
They all ask Him at once, Him so fatigued with the journey and heat. This is not impatience in them, but simply love, and tenderness to their Master.
They think the pre sent time convenient for dining; it being after the departure of the woman to the city, and before the coming of the Samaritans; so that they sit at meat by themselves. This explains, In the mean while.
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