John 4:38
What meaning of the john 4:38 in the Bible?
What does John 4:38 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours."
What does John 4:38 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours."
I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The...
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...
SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present incident. It can only be explained by referring it to the events of the last e...
BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS (John 4:1-9)...
SENT. App-174. OTHER MEN. Greek. Plural _of allos._ LABOURED. have laboured. ARE ENTERED. have entered. THEIR: i.e. John the Baptist and the Lord....
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 an...
VER 35. SAY NOT YOU, THERE ARE YET FOUR MONTHS, AND THEN COMES HARVEST? BEHOLD, I SAY TO YOU, LIFT UP YOUR EYES, AND LOOK ON THE FIELDS; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. 36. AND HE THAT REAPS RE...
_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...
ΑΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, посылать в качестве официального представителя, облеченного властью. Обобщ. _aor._ рассматривает действие целиком. Это действие может включать...
AND HE THAT REAPETH, &C.— As the disciples laboured together with our Lord in this spiritual harvest,—to encourage them, he put them in mind of the reward. The passage should be read as follows: _"He...
FIELDS WHITE UNTO HARVEST _Text 4:31-38_ 31 In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33 The disciples theref...
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...
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lor...
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...
I SENT YOU TO REAP... — The pronouns are again emphatic. “I sent _you_ to reap;” and the statement is of wide meaning. He is ever _the_ Sower. All others are more or less fully reapers, though in the...
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...
The exemplification in our Lord's mind is given in John 4:38, where the pronouns ἐγώ and ὑμᾶς are emphatic. “I sent you to reap.” When? Holtzmann thinks the past tenses can only be explained as spoken...
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...
By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets lo...
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, s...
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;...
I SENT YOU TO REAP,.... To preach the Gospel, and gather in souls by your ministry; referring to the mission of them in Matthew 10:6; THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOUR; being sent to the Jews, who...
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. Ver. 38. _Other men have laboured_] Laboured even to lassitude, as the word κεκοπιακα...
_Herein is that saying true_ That common proverb; _One soweth and another reapeth_ He alludes to what often happens, namely, that after he has sown his field, a man dies before he gathers in the harve...
I SENT YOU; spoken in anticipation of the mission of his apostles, when he should have finished his work on earth. OTHER MEN LABORED; spoken of all the preparation made by Christ and holy men before...
The harvest in the kingdom of God:...
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...
I have sent you to reap that which you did not first labour for; the prophets, and John the Baptist, and myself, have sown the seed, and by their doctrine prepared for the Lord a people; you enter upo...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity who testified what things he had seen and heard; who "came not to do His own will, but rather to do the will of the Father,"[172]...
John 4:38 I G1473 sent G649 (G5656) you G5209 reap G2325 (G5721) which G3739 you G5210 have G2872 not G3756 labored G2872 (G5758) others G243 labored G2872 (G5758) and G2532 you G5210 entered G1525 (G...
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...
I SENT (εγω απεστειλα). Emphatic use of εγω and first aorist active indicative of αποστελλω common in John for to send.WHEREON YE HAVE NOT LABOURED (ο ουχ υμεις κεκοπιακατε). Perfect active indic...
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...
I HAVE SENT YOU. Jesus speaks of some point in the past. The disciples had baptized huge crowds John 4:1), so huge that John the Baptist's disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). T...
_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. The pro...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 4:37 The OTHERS who have labored are Jesus and his predecessors, especially John the Baptist and his followers. In a broader sense this includes all the OT writers and prophets. Jesu...
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 the...
_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...
1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Acts 10:37; Acts 10:38; Acts 10:42; Acts 10:43; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:32; Acts 4:4;...
I sent [ε γ ω α π ε σ τ ε ι λ α]. The I is emphatic. The aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved in their original call. Other men. Jesus himself and all who had prepared...
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...
I — he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you — He had employed them already in baptizing, John 4:2....