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33 So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.(A) 35 Do you not say, ‘In four months[a] the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:35 ‘In four months… ’: probably a proverb; cf. Mt 9:37–38.

33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will(A) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(B) 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.(C)

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