The main course

Finally, it's time to bring in the main course. This is the food proper — that which provides the nourishment.

And, at this best meal that you are enjoying with Jesus, the main course your Host offers is bread! A very "nutritious" bread, by the way, as He describes:

“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." (John 4:32 and 34; NIV)

Therefore, the food — the bread — that Jesus was eating in these verses was "to do the will of Him who had sent him and to finish His work". It is also interesting to note that, two chapters later, in John 6:35, Jesus states that He, Himself, is "the Bread of Life", the one who is able to satisfy both the hunger and the thirst.

In other words, when Jesus sat by that well and drew the Samaritan woman to this conversation, and, in a way, invited her to "dine" with Him, it was actually the very Bread of Life offering Himself to satisfy not only her thirst, but also her hunger.

Right in the first verses of John 4, there's a statement: "Now he had to go through Samaria". On that day, at that hour, this was the will of the One who had sent Jesus. This was the food that Jesus had, for Him to eat — the food that He shared with this woman.

In a similar way, this is the main course that your Host is serving in this best meal in which you are the Guest of Honor: bread, the privilege to be God's partner in doing His work!

Let's dig in!