King James Version
John 4:31 in the King James Version says “In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.” — study this verse from John chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.”
John 4:31 · KJV
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another , Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the mean”
G3342betwixt (of place or person); (of time) as adjective, intervening, or (by implication) adjoining
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“saying”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
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