This week’s sermon (John 4:31-34) unpacks the distinction between the physical food that the disciples kept on thinking about, the resulting confusion of the disciples, and Jesus Christ's food, which was to obey His Father in heaven.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.