Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 4:24
God [is] a (h) Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
(h) By the word "spirit" he means the nature of the Godhead, and not the third person in the Trinity.
God [is] a (h) Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
(h) By the word "spirit" he means the nature of the Godhead, and not the third person in the Trinity.
Verse 24. _GOD_ IS _A SPIRIT_] This is one of the first, the greatest, the most sublime, and necessary truths in the compass of nature! There is a God, the cause of all things - the fountain of all p...
GOD IS A SPIRIT - This is the second reason why men should worship him in spirit and in truth. By this is meant that God is without a body; that he is not material or composed of parts; that he is inv...
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;...
GOD IS. SPIRIT. Rather, "God is Spirit." This declaration is fundamental. 1. God is not material, according to the gross conception of the pagans. 2. He is not. material force, nor an abstract force a...
"You do not know what you are worshipping. We do know what we worship, because the world's salvation has its origin among the Jews. But the hour is coming--the hour is now here--when the real worshipp...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
GOD. See App-98., with Art. Contrast John 1:1. A SPIRIT. spirit: i.e. not flesh, or material substance. Not "a" Spirit. MUST. Note this absolute condition. Compare John 4:4; John 3:7;...
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...
God is spirit, and must be approached in that part of us which is spirit, in the true temple of God, -which temple ye are." Even to the chosen three Christ imparts no truths more profound than these....
"We shall surely be justified in attributing the wonderful words of John 4:21; John 4:23-24, to One greater even than S. John. They seem to breathe the spirit of other worlds than ours -of worlds whos...
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...
24. God is spirit (not ‘_a_ spirit’), and must be approached in that part of us which is spirit, in the true temple of God, ‘which temple ye are.’ The premise was old (1 Kings 8:27); it is the deducti...
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,...
21–24. “We shall surely be justified in attributing the wonderful words of John 4:21; John 4:23-24, to One greater even than S. John. They seem to breathe the spirit of other worlds than ours—‘of worl...
Ver 19. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21. Jesus sa...
_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...
ΠΝΕΎΜΑ (G4151) дух. Предикат без артикля подчеркивает характер и природу (_см._ John 1:1; GGBB, 270). Так как дух не привязан ни к какому месту, иудеи и самаряне не могут ограничить его. "Бог незрим,...
DISCOURSE: 1618 THE WORSHIP WHICH GOD REQUIRES John 4:24._ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth_. BRETHREN, you are all upon the brink of eternity. You a...
GOD IS A SPIRIT, &C.— As a further answer to the woman's question, our great Teacher delivered a doctrine which may justly be called his own, as it exhibits an idea of the Supreme Being, and of the wo...
TRUE WORSHIPPERS OF GOD _Text 4:19-26_ 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place...
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...
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. GOD IS A SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP [HIM] IN SPIRIT AND [IN] TRUTH. 'As God is a Spirit, so H...
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...
4:24 spirit; (c-4) Or 'God [is] spirit.'...
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)....
GOD _is_ A SPIRIT] or, rather, 'God is spirit' (RM). 'Spirit' is the name, in the NT., of the highest and most god-like faculties of the soul. Our Lord means, therefore, that God is the supreme unders...
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...
GOD IS A SPIRIT. — Better, _God is spirit._ His will has been expressed in the seeking. But His very nature and essence is spirit, and it follows from this that all true worship must be spiritual. The...
CHAPTER 10 JESUS DECLARES HIMSELF. “The woman answered and said unto Him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom th...
The reason of all this is found in the determining statement πνεῦμα ὁ θεός, God is Spirit. _Cf._ God is Light; God is Love. The predication involves much; that God is personal, and much else. But prim...
THE TRUE WORSHIP OF THE FATHER OF ALL John 4:15-26 What a train of memories our Lord's words evoked! A spasm of remorse seized the woman, as she remembered the grave within her heart where her first...
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...
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...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XX. With reference to particular points in John 4:21-26 the following suggestions may be offered: 1. In the words of John 4:21 we may see from the outset tha...
“ _But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for also the Father seeketh such worshipers._ 24. _God is spirit, and they that worship him...
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...
_WORSHIP_ ‘God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.’ John 4:24 It is impossible to imagine a subject that more intimately affects the daily life of every...
24._God is a Spirit. _This is a confirmation drawn from the very nature of God. Since men are flesh, we ought not to wonder, if they take delight in those things which correspond to their own disposit...
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;...
GOD IS A SPIRIT,.... Or "the Spirit is God"; a divine person, possessed of all divine perfections, as appears from his names, works, and worship ascribed unto him; John 4:23; though the Arabic and Per...
God _is_ a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship _him_ in spirit and in truth. Ver. 24. _God is a Spirit_] _Omnes nominis Iehovae literae sunt spirituales ut denotetur Deum esse spiritum._ ...
_God is a Spirit._ &c. “As a further answer to the woman's question, our Lord delivered a doctrine which may justly be called his own, as it exhibits an idea of God, and of the worship which is due to...
GOD IS A SPIRIT; AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. The revelation which Jesus had just made astonished and disconcerted the woman. She had probably never given the mat...
A question as to true worship:...
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...
God is not a corporeal being, made up of blood, and flesh, and bones, having senses as bodies have, to be pleased with sensible things; but he is a spiritual Being, the Father of spirits, and requiret...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus but they are according to the Spirit, for we must worship God "in spirit and in truth."[78] Address of Tatian to the Greeks He alone is without beginnin...
John 4:24 God G2316 Spirit G4151 and G2532 worship G4352 (G5723) Him G846 must G1163 (G5748) worship...
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 4:24. GOD IS SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. Such worship as is described in the last verse is the only real worship that can be conceived. This verse does not...
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...
GOD IS A SPIRIT (πνευμα ο θεος). More precisely, "God is Spirit" as "God is Light" (1 John 1:5), "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). In neither case can we read Spirit is God, Light is God, Love is God. The...
GOD (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:18). _...
John 4:24 The Worship of God, the Personal Spirit It is when we get into the midst of practical life, out of abstractions of thought, that we realize our need of a heavenly Father, that we turn to C...
John 4:19 God is Spirit; worship in spirit I. Christ lived in another region than that of religious quarrel. To Him, both Judaism and Samaritanism were worn-out forms of truth, and He came to put the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GOD IS SPIRIT. Not _"a"_ spirit, but _Spirit!_ God is not _material,_ therefore needs no temple constructed by human hands....
_The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers_ WORSHIP I. ITS GROUNDS OR REASONS. 1. The perfection of the Divine character. “God is a Spirit.” These words are (1) A mystery, because spir...
_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...
_God is a Spirit, and they that worship Hill must worship Him in spirit and in truth_ GOD IS A SPIRIT There are two ways of knowing and describing God--Affirmatively, which ascribes to Him whatever...
_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.
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 4:24 GOD IS SPIRIT. God is not made of physical matter. He is present everywhere. He is not seen (see John 3:6,...
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...
_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...
1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Timothy 1:17; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 3:17;...
God is a Spirit [π ν ε υ μ α ο θ ε ο ς]. Or, as Rev., in margins, God is spirit. Spirit is the emphatic word; Spirit is God. The phrase describes the nature, not the personality of God. Compare the ex...
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...
God is a Spirit — Not only remote from the body, and all the properties of it, but likewise full of all spiritual perfections, power, wisdom, love, holiness. And our worship should be suitable to his...
GOD IS. SPIRIT; that is, he hath no body, nor bodily parts; he is not. bare spiritual substance: but. pure and perfect Spirit: and therefore his worshippers MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH; wh...