B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
John 4:39
And many of the Samaritans believed on him for the saying of the woman.
She had borne witness, wisely, gladly, as best she could, and though. very humble creature, she had not preached Christ in vain.
And many of the Samaritans believed on him for the saying of the woman.
She had borne witness, wisely, gladly, as best she could, and though. very humble creature, she had not preached Christ in vain.
Verse 39. _MANY OF THE SAMARITANS - BELIEVED ON HIM FOR THE SAYING_ _OF THE WOMAN_] This woman was the first apostle of Christ in Samaria! She went and told her fellow citizens that the Messiah was c...
AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY BELIEVED ON HIM, ... - There is seldom an instance of so remarkable success as this. From a single conversation, in circumstances, in a place, and with an indiv...
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 WITNESS OF THE SAMARITANS AND THE RETURN TO GALILEE. The author records the effect of personal contact with Jesus on the men who come from the city. The expression, Saviour of the World, must come...
Many of the Samaritans from that city believed on him, because of the woman's story, for she testified: "He told me all things that I have done." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
BELIEVED ON. App-150. See note on John 1:7. FOR. on account of. Greek. _dia._ App-104.John 4:2. TESTIFIED. bore witness. See note on John 1:7....
_many of the Samaritans_ Strong proof of the truth of John 4:35. These Samaritans outstrip the Jews, and even the Apostles, in their readiness to believe. The Jews rejected the testimony of their own...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
ΠΟΛΛΟῚ ἘΠ. ΕἸΣ ΑΥ̓. Strong proof of the truth of John 4:35. These Samaritans outstrip the Jews, and even the Apostles, in their readiness to believe. The Jews rejected the testimony of their own Scrip...
VER 39. AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY BELIEVED ON HIM FOR THE SAYING OF THE WOMAN, WHICH TESTIFIED, HE TOLD ME ALL THAT EVER I DID. 40. SO WHEN THE SAMARITANS WERE COME TO HIM, THEY BESOUGHT...
_THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HIS WORDS ARE BELIEVABLE: JOHN 4:39-45:_ There was within that sinful woman a spark of goodness waiting to be kindled by Jesus. When this woman became a believer in Jes...
ΈΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΈΎΩ (G4100) верить. Обобщ. _aor._ подчеркивает действие в его совокупности; возможно, inch, _aor._, который подчеркивает начало некоего состояние или условия. Это пр...
AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS—BELIEVED— Many of the Samaritans had been so struck with the account which the woman gave of Jesus, that they believed him to be the Messiah on her testimony. Accordingly, b...
REAPING THE HARVEST _Text 4:39-42_ 39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. 40 So when...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 4:31-42 We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we see:— "In the meanwhile His disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat...
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY BELIEVED ON HIM FOR THE...
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...
4:39 on (d-10) As ch. 2.11....
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...
MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY BELIEVED. — The willingness to receive the truth on the part of the Samaritans, is contrasted with the rejection of it on the part of the Jews. They refused the wit...
CHAPTER 11 THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. “In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to...
John 4:39-42 briefly sum up the results of the Lord's visit....
Out of Sychar many of the Samaritans believed on Him. This faith was the result of the woman's testimony, διὰ τὸν λόγον τῆς γυναικὸς μαρτυροῦσης̇; her testimony being, εἶπέ μοι πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησα....
THE GROWTH OF FAITH John 4:39-45 There are many ways of coming to know Christ. In some cases He comes to us, as to the woman by the well, and reveals Himself in a direct and illuminating manner, so t...
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...
(7) And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. (7) The Samaritans most joyfully embrace that which the Jews...
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...
“ _Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who testified: He told me all things that I have done._ 40. _When, therefore, the Samaritans came unto him,...
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...
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...
39._And many Samaritans out of that city believed. _The Evangelist here relates what was the success of the woman’s announcement to her citizens, from which it is evident that the expectation and desi...
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;...
AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY,.... Of Sychar, which was a city of Samaria; BELIEVED ON HIM; that he was the true Messiah he had told the woman he was; and she put it to them whether he was...
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. Ver. 39. _For the saying of the woman_] An unlikely means to effe...
_Many of the Samaritans believed on him_ That is, believed him to be a divinely-commissioned teacher, and even the true Messiah, as appears from John 4:42; _for the saying of the woman, who testified,...
Faith as personal conviction:...
AND MANY OF THE SAMARITANS OF THAT CITY BELIEVED ON HIM FOR THE SAYING OF THE WOMAN, WHICH TESTIFIED, HE TOLD ME ALL THAT EVER I DID....
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...
THAT CITY was Sichem, or Sychar, but it was within the province of Samaria, from whence it is that they had the name of Samaritans as well as Sichemites. MANY of them, upon the testimony of the woman;...
John 4:39 And G1161 many G4183 Samaritans G4541 of G1537 that G1565 city G4172 believed G4100 (G5656) in...
‘And from that town many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all things that I ever did.” The woman's testimony had convinced the townspeople...
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...
John 4:39. AND FROM THAT CITY MANY OF THE SAMARITANS BELIEVED IN HIM BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF THE WOMAN, BEARING WITNESS, HE TOLD ME ALL THINGS THAT EVER I DID. The arrangement of the words shows the pr...
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...
BECAUSE OF THE SAYING OF THE WOMAN WHO TESTIFIED (δια τον λογον της γυναικος μαρτυρουσης). She bore her witness clearly and with discretion. She told enough to bring her neighbours to Christ. They...
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...
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...
THEY BEGGED HIM TO STAY WITH THEM. It was a strange thing for Samaritans to invite a Jew to stay with them; stranger still for a Jew to do it! This showed their faith, and, his mission was to point me...
_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.
_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;...
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...
_Of that city many believed_, &c They were moved because she confessed before her fellow-citizens that she had lived in fornication with a man not her husband, as Christ had told her, that by means of...
_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...
John 10:41; John 10:42; John 11:45; John 4:29; John 4:42...
The saying [τ ο ν λ ο γ ο ν]. Rev., better, the word. It does not refer merely to the woman's statement, He told me, etc., but to her whole testimony [μ α ρ τ υ ρ ο υ σ η ς] concerning Christ....
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...
Here an account is given of the conversion of more of the Samaritans from the city of Sichar. Some believed on him, upon the full report which the woman had made, That, HE HAD TOLD HER ALL THAT EVER S...