John 4:25

‘The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ. When he is come he will tell us all things”.'

Such words led the woman to speculate about the possible coming of the Messiah, the Christ. It is possible that she used the term ‘Messiah' to represent the hope because she knew that Jesus was a Jew, but she would herself know the deliverer as ‘the Taheb'. This was the one the Samaritans longed for who would one day come as the revealer of truth (v. 25). On the other hand the conversation would have been in Aramaic, so that she may well have used Taheb with the explanatory translation ‘Messiah' being the author's. Thus her words may have been ‘the Taheb, who is called (by you) the Messiah'. That is certainly what she meant.

‘He will tell us all things.' An admission that she was aware that much was lacking in their knowledge of God and His ways. The Jews were aware of the same and awaited Messianic figures who would bring them the full truth.