Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 4:8
The later rabbis declared that to partake of Samaritan bread was like eating swine's flesh, but in our Lord's time Samaritan food was accounted clean.
The later rabbis declared that to partake of Samaritan bread was like eating swine's flesh, but in our Lord's time Samaritan food was accounted clean.
BUY MEAT - Buy food....
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 .)...
IV. 1- 42. CHRIST IN SAMARIA. John 4:1. Christ and the Samaritan Woman. The Lord (for the title _cf. John 6:23_, John 11:2; John 20:20;...
THERE COMETH. WOMAN OF SAMARIA. A Samaritan woman of the city of Sychar. Why she should come so far from the city for water is. matter of conjecture. It was the custom for women to work in the fields,...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although it was not Jesus himself who was in the habit of baptizing but his disciple...
FOR, &c. See note on John 4:34. UNTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. TO. in order that (Greek. _hina)_ they might. MEAT. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Species), App-6 for all kinds of food....
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...
_to buy meat_ i.e. food, not necessarily flesh. The meat-offering was fine flour and oil without any flesh. Leviticus 2:1. The Greek word here means -nourishment....
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...
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,...
Ver 7. There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink. 8. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9. Then says the woman of Samaria to him, How...
_THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE OFFERS LIVING WATER -- JOHN 4:1-26:_ At Jacob's well Jesus met a sinful, Samaritan woman. Some of Jesus greatest teaching was done to just one student. He spoke to t...
ΆΠΕΛΗΛΎΘΕΙΣΑΝ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) уходить. Plperf. описывает предшествующее действие учеников. Они отошли, оставив Иисуса одного, ΆΓΟΡΆΣΩΣΙΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΑΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) пок...
JESUS AND THE LIVING WATER _Text 4:7-14_ 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. 9...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 4:7-10 First, a brief Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— In the last chapter we pointed out the deep significance underlying the words of John 4...
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) (FOR HIS DISCIPLES WERE GONE AWAY UNTO THE CITY TO BUY MEAT), [ trofas (G5160)] - 'victuals,' or 'provisions.' This was wisely ordered...
25 Ceremonial cleansing is the true definition of baptism, Before this, baptisms were a common feature of the Jewish ceremonial system, but were usually connected with the temple and the laver and wer...
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...
FOR introduces His reason for asking this favour of her. The disciples had gone on. He was alone, and without the means of getting water for Himself (John 4:11). MEAT. — Better, _food,_ as the former...
CHAPTER 9 THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. “When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus Himself baptized not, but H...
οἱ γὰρ μαθηταὶ … ἀγοράσωσι. This gives the reason for the request. Had the disciples been present they would have made the request: an indication of the relations already subsisting between the discip...
SATISFYING AN ETERNAL THIRST John 4:1-14 Our Lord had no wish to precipitate the conflict with the Pharisee party, until He had finished His ministry to the people. He was the last and greatest of th...
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...
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...
I. JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN: JOHN 4:1-26. In this first phase we see how Jesus succeeds in awaking faith in a soul which was a stranger to all spiritual life. The historical situation is describ...
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...
“ _A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her: Give me to drink._ 8. _For his disciples had gone to the city to buy food._ 9. _The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that...
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...
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;...
FOR HIS DISCIPLES WERE GONE AWAY,.... This is related, not so much to give a reason why Christ asked the woman for water, because his disciples were not present, to minister to him; but rather to show...
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Ver. 8. _To buy meat_] For our Saviour lived not upon alms; but although he became poor to make us rich,2 Corinthians 8:9, yet had he a b...
_There cometh_ At the very juncture of time; _a woman of Samaria to draw water_ The providence of God so ordering it, that she might have an opportunity of hearing the truth, in order to her salvation...
MEAT; according to the usage of the word in our version, meat is used for all kinds of food....
(FOR HIS DISCIPLES WERE GONE AWAY UNTO THE CITY TO BUY MEAT.)...
The beginning of the conversation:...
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...
4-26 There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places of temptation but when we needs must; and then m...
This is added, lest any should say, How came our Saviour in this discourse with the woman of Samaria? They were travelling upon the road, and came near to Sichem. Our Lord's disciples were gone to the...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "God," then, being good, "is love," it is said.[175] Lactantius Divine Institutes Book I But perchance some one may ask of us the same question which Hortensiu...
John 4:8 For G1063 His G846 disciples G3101 away G565 (G5715) into G1519 city G4172 to G2443 buy...
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...
‘Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink”. For his disciples had gone away into the town to buy food.' The point of the second statement would appear to be that they had taken all their vessels with them...
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 4:7-8. JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, GIVE ME TO DRINK. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy food.) The departure of the disciples had left Jesus thus dependent on the woman's kindness;...
FOR (γαρ). Explanation of the reason for asking her.WERE GONE AWAY (απεληλυθεισαν). Past perfect of απερχομα, to go off. They had already gone before she came. To Sychar (John 4:5; John 4:39).TO...
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...
A SAMARITAN WOMAN CAME. She had walked out from the city to get water. Women were the water-carriers of the East (Genesis 24:13-14; Exodus 2:16), and water was important in this dry land (compare Matt...
_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...
_For His disciples_, &c. The word _for_ gives the reason why Jesus asked drink of the woman; because His disciples, from whom otherwise He would have sought food and drink, had gone into the city to b...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 4:1. These verses form an historical introductory note prefixed to and explaining our Lord’s ministry in Samaria. He left Judæa to avoid conflict with the Pharis...
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 6:5; Luke 9:13...
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...
For his disciples were gone — Else he needed not have asked her....