Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

John 4:31

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 112, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

Of the Apostle's Language Concerning Food. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1105 (In-Text, Margin)

How unworthy, also, is the way in which you interpret to the favour of your own lust the fact that the Lord “ate and drank” promiscuously! But I think that He must have likewise “fasted” inasmuch as He has pronounced, not “the full,” but “the hungry and thirsty, blessed:” (He) who was wont to profess “food” to be, not that which His disciples had supposed, but “the thorough doing of the Father’s work;”[John 4:31-34] teaching “to labour for the meat which is permanent unto life eternal;” in our ordinary prayer likewise commanding us to request “bread,” not the wealth of Attalus therewithal. Thus, too, Isaiah has not denied that God “hath chosen” a “fast;” but has particularized in detail the ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 76, footnote 38 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section XXI. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1517 (In-Text, Margin)

[31] And while he was speaking, his disciples came; and they wondered how he would speak with a woman; but not one of them said unto him, What seekest thou? or, [32] What speakest thou with her? And the woman left her waterpot, and went to the [33] city, and said to the people, Come, and see a man who told me all that ever I did: [34] perhaps then he is the Messiah. And people went out from the city, and came to [35] him.[John 4:31] And in the mean while his disciples besought him, and said unto him, Our [36, 37] master, eat. And he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not. And the disciples said amongst themselves, Can any one have brought him aught to eat? [38] Jesus said unto them, My food is to ...