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John 4:29
Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?
Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?
Verse 29. _ALL THINGS THAT EVER I DID_] The Jews believed that one essential characteristic of the Messiah would be, that he should be able to tell the secrets of all hearts. This they believed was pr...
IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST? - Though she probably believed it, yet she proposed it modestly, lest she should appear to dictate in a case which was so important, and which demanded so much attention. The e...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. (John 4:1 .)_ 2. At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. (John 4:6 .) 3. The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. (John 4:27 .)...
THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES. The disciples return with the food they have bought. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman (_cf. Pirke Aboth,_ i. 5, Prolong not discourse with a woman). T...
COME AND SEE. MAN WHO TOLD ME ALL THINGS. EVER DID. He had told her some things about her own life, and conscience had told her more. She felt that all was known to him, and naturally exaggerates by...
Upon this his disciples came up; and they were in a state of amazement that he was talking to a woman; but no one said: "What are you looking for?" or, "Why are you talking to her?" So the woman left...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
SEE. App-133. THAT EVER. whatsoever. IS NOT THIS?. can this be?...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in three different ways. (1) On _a priori_grounds. How could the Samaritans, who rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be ex...
_all things that ever I did_ How natural is this exaggeration! In her excitement she states not what He had really told her, but what she is convinced He could have told her. Comp. -all men" in John 3...
THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the writer of ‘the Universal Gospel,’ mentions any...
5–42. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different ways. (1) On a _priori_ grounds. How could the Samaritans, who rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews,...
ΠΆΝΤΑ Ὃ ἘΠ. How natural is this exaggeration! In her excitement she states not what He had really told her, but what she is convinced He could have told her. Comp. πάντες in John 3:26, and οὐδείς in J...
VER 27. AND UPON THIS CAME HIS DISCIPLES, AND MARVELED THAT HE TALKED WITH THE WOMAN: YET NO MAN SAID, WHAT SEEK YOU? OR, WHY TALK YOU WITH HER? 28. THE WOMAN THEN LEFT HER WATERPOT, AND WENT HER WAY...
_THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ Jesus knew all about this woman. He said to her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither." (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no...
ΔΕΎΤΕ (G1205) _adv._ служит в качестве увещевательной частицы: пойдем! идемте! (BAGD). Ϊ́ΔΕΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3621) видеть. _Aor. imper._ часто передает значение срочности, мольбы, прик...
DISCOURSE: 1619 CONVICTION OF SIN, A PREPARATIVE FOR SALVATION John 4:29. _Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?_ LITTLE do we know what a day or an hour...
THE WOMAN THEN LEFT HER WATER-POT, &C.— When the woman heard Jesus call himself the Messiah, she set down her pitcher, and ran into the city, where she published the news in the streets, and desired a...
SPONTANEOUS EVANGELISM _Text 4:27-30_ 27 And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 4:20-30 In the last chapter we continued our exposition of John 4 down to the end of verse 19. It is of surpassing interest to follow the course of the Savior’s...
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? COME [ deute (G1205 )], SEE A MAN WHICH TOLD ME ALL THINGS THAT EVER I DID: IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST? [ meeti (G33...
19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. Of course Jerusalem was right and Samaria was wrong, for God had chosen the cit...
THE SAMARITAN WOMAN 1-42. Christ in Samaria. The ministry in Samaria is recorded because it is the author's design to exhibit Christ as the Saviour, not only of Israel, but of the world (John 4:42)....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS TALKS TO A WOMAN IN *SAMARIA 4:1-26 V1 The *Pharisees heard that Jesus was *baptising more people than John the...
IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST? — Better, _is this the Christ?_ She felt that He was a prophet when His words revealed her past life (John 4:19). She has had the thought of Christ present to her mind when He...
THE REWARDS OF SERVICE John 4:27-38 As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon our water pots. When we are saved, we must hasten with the tidings to those with whom we ha...
The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. The final explanation must be found in His dealing with the woman of Samaria. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l...
The Samaritans looked for the Messias, because they had the books of Moses, in which Jacob foretold the world's Redeemer: _The sceptre shall not depart from Juda, nor a leader from his thigh, until he...
CHAPTER 10 JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN John 4:1-41. _“When our Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus himself did not...
SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. JESUS IN SAMARIA. The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. Unbelief on the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention greatly aroused, su...
“ _The woman therefore left her water-pot and went away into the city and says to the men:_ 29. _Come, see a man who hath told me all the things that I have done; can this be the Christ?_ ” _ Therefor...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XXI. The following points in John 4:27-38 may be noticed: 1. The impression produced upon the mind of the woman was that which came from the wonderful knowle...
And he must needs go through Samaria. (5) Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (6) Now Jacob's well was there. J...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
29._See a man. _As she here speaks doubtfully, she might appear not to have been greatly moved by the authority of Christ. I reply, as she was not qualified to discourse about such high mysteries, she...
And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true position in the dealings of God. He goes away into Galilee;...
COME, SEE A MAN,.... An uncommon, an extraordinary man, a prophet, and, who himself says, he is the Messiah, who is now at Jacob's well; come, go along with me, and see him and converse with him, and...
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Ver. 29. _Come, see a man, &c._] Weak means may, by God's blessing, work great matters. He can make the words of Naa...
_The woman then_ Seeing other company coming up to interrupt the discourse, immediately _left her water-pot_ Or pail, behind her, forgetting smaller things, while her thoughts were engrossed with matt...
A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE (vs.1-26) The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as to His baptizing more disciples than John. Not that the Lord Himself did the...
27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and provid...
She invites them to him under the notion of a man, who had told her all things that she ever did. Christ doubtless had told her, and spoken to her, much more than John hath left us upon sacred record;...
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THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). In this story of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4 Jesus depicts Himself as the Gift of God Who can give men living water (John 4:10), and can thus give men a spring of w...
The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus in chap. 3 is pursued in the account given us in this section of the interview of Jesus, first with the Samaritan woman, and then...
John 4:29. COME, SEE A MAN, WHICH TOLD ME ALL THINGS THAT EVER I DID. She fixes on the wonderful knowledge which the Stranger had displayed: what had impressed her must also convince them. Let them co...
ALL THINGS THAT EVER I DID (παντα α εποιησα).HA , not οσα (as many as), no "ever" in the Greek. But a guilty conscience (verse John 4:18) led her to exaggerate a bit.CAN THIS BE THE CHRIST? (μητ...
John 4:1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and de...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d...
I have often read this chapter in your hearing, and you have often read it yourselves; but the Word of God is not like the grapes of an earthly vine, which when once trodden are exhausted. You may com...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The indwelling Spirit. The nobleman's son healed. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n...
John 4:1. _When therefore the Lord knew how the pharisees,_ chiefly priests, and many of them principal members of the council, _had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John._ The p...
COULD HE BE THE MESSIAH? This woman skillfully excites their interest! Her question is worded to show she thinks he is the Messiah....
_Come see a Man which told me all things whatever I did: __IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST?_ Christ and modern scepticism This judgment on the claims of Christ is the verdict of common sense in contrast to th...
_The woman left her waterpot, and went her way into the city_ A WOMAN’S ZEAL I. THE ENGROSSING NATURE OF CONVERSION. 1. To meet Christ causes ordinary events to shrink into insignificance. Paul for...
_And upon this_ SOWING AND REAPING I. WITH A SOLITARY PUPIL. 1. Face-to-face work (John 4:27, John 1:42, John 21:16; Acts 3:4;...
_Our fathers worshipped in this mountain_ THE ADVENT OF CHRIST IN RELATION TO THE HEATHEN This is the first mission to the heathen. I. Our Lord’s MISSIONARY METHOD. He tries to excite in the woman a...
_When therefore the Lord knew_ THE FIRST VISIT TO SAMARIA I. THE STORY ITSELF. 1. The memorable halt (John 4:1). 2. The surprising request (John 4:7). 3. The opened vista (John 4:10). 4.
1-54 CHAPTER 4 _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c.... _than John_, that is, than John _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. 2 _, de cons. Evang., c._ 18), for John was now in prison. For thes...
_Come and see_, &c. Saith Cyril, "Giving an account of the miracle, she prepared her hearers to believe:" because although, as S. Chrysostom says, she had not heard the whole history of her life from...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 4:27. MARVELLED.—The disciples evidently thought that Jesus would conduct Himself outwardly as did the Jewish rabbis. Those teachers said: “Do not prolong conver...
EXPOSITION JOHN 4:1 7. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the strict compass of the theocracy. _This passage describes an incident of consummate interest, and records a specime...
Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized none, but his disciples,) (John 4:1) Now this can mean one of t...
1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25; John 1:41; John 4:17;...
All things. Jesus ' insight in the one case convinced her that He knew everything, and to her awakened conscience it seemed as though He had told everything. Is not this the Christ [μ η τ ι ε σ τ ι ν...
MISSIONS IN THE GOSPELS John 4:28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories of the Word of God. It is beyond doubt a revelation of the heart of God to...
THE WOMAN AT THE WELL John 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter this remarkable story, we wish to suggest three distinct things concerning our Lord. 1. THE LORD WEARY AND WORN. We read that "being we...
A man who told me all things that ever I did — Our Lord had told her but a few things. But his words awakened her conscience, which soon told her all the rest. Is not this the Christ? — She does not d...