The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
JOHN 4:28-33 NKJV
John 4:28, 29 all things that I ever did: In her excitement, the woman exaggerated. She did not report what Jesus actually told her, but what He could have told her. Note the woman’s spiritual journey. She first viewed Christ as a Jew (v. 9), then as a prophet (v. 19), and finally as the Messiah.
John 4:30–33 As the Samaritan woman did not understand the switch from physical water to spiritual eternal life (4:15), neither did the disciples understand the switch from physical food to spiritual food. This is another instance of spiritual dullness. In 2:20 it was the Jews. In 3:4 it was Nicodemus; in 4:11 the Samaritan woman, and now the disciples (11:12; 14:5).
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