8for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;


In Context

5 He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

7 there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, 'Give me to drink;'

8 for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

9 the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, 'How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, 'If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

John 4:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:8For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:8For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8(For his disciples had gone to the city to buy provisions.)

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8(For his disciples were gone away to the city to buy meat.)