Matthew Poole and continuators on John 4:34

34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me , and to finish his work .

Our Lord, without any reproof of them for their dulness in understanding, and having compassion on their Infirmity and Ignorance, tells them what he meant by his former words; telling them, that the doing of his Fathers Will, and the finishing of his Work, was that which he more hungred after, and took more delight in, than in eating and drinking; this is what he sought, Iohn 5.30. that which he came down from Heaven for, Iohn 6.38. As the Law of God was sweeter to David, than the Hony, or the Hony-comb, so the publishing of the Gospel was to Jesus Christ,

the calling Sinners to Repentance, and publishing the glad tidings of the Messiah; that was his work, which he tells his Father he had finished, Iohn 17.4. Hereby teaching Ministers and People also, to prefer Spiritual things before Temporal, and the Ministers of the Gospel especially to prefer the publishing of the Gospel (which is their work) to any other employment whatsoever.