In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was GOD
Chapter 4
- Therefore, when
the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized
more disciples than John
- (though
Jesus
Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), (John 3:22; 1 Cor. 1:14)
- He left
Judea
and departed again to Galilee.
- But He
needed to
go through Samaria.
- So He came
to a
city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
- Now
Jacob's well
was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied
from His journey, sat thus by the well. It
was about the sixth hour.
- A woman of
Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to
her, “Give Me a drink.”
- For His
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
- Then the woman of Samaria said to
Him, “How
is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. (2 Kin. 17:24;
Acts 10:28)
- Jesus
answered
and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says
to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have
given you living water.” (Is. 12:3; Is. 44:3; Heb. 6:4; Rom. 5:15)
- The woman
said
to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
- “Are You
greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it
himself, as well as his sons and his live-stock?”
- Jesus
answered
and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
- "but
whoever
drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But
the water that I shall give him will become in
him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." (Is. 12:3;
John 6:40; John 6:54; Is. 55:1)
- The woman
said
to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here
to draw.” (John
6:34&35; John 17:2&3)
- Jesus
said
to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
- The woman answered and said, "I
have no
husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no
husband,'
- "for you have had five husbands,
and the
one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly."
- The woman said to Him, "Sir, I
perceive
that You are a prophet. (Luke
7:16; _7:39;
Luke 24:19; John 9:17)
- "Our fathers worshipped on this
mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one
ought to worship."
- Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe
Me,
the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in
Jerusalem, worship the Father. (1
Tim. 2:8)
- You worship what you do not know;
we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. (2 Kin. 17:28-41; Rom. 3:1; Rom. 9:4&5)
- "But the hour is coming, and now
is,
when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (Phil. 3:3)
- "God is spirit, and those who
worship
Him must worship in spirit and truth." (Ps. 145:18; 2 Cor. 3:17)
(*!*)
- The woman said to Him, "I know
that
Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He
will tell us all things."
- Jesus said to her, I who speak to
you am He." (Matt.
26:63&64; John 8:25; John 9:37)
- And at this point His disciples
came,
and they marvelled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What
do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?"
- The woman then left her waterpot,
went her way into the city, and said to the men,
- "Come, see a Man who told me all
things
that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (John
4:25)
- Then they went out of the city and
came
to Him.
- In the mean time His disciples
urged
Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
- But He said to them, "I have food
to eat of which you do not know."
- Therefore the disciples said to
one
another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?"
- Jesus said to them, "My food is to
do
the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. (Ps. 40:8; John 8:29; John
5:19; John 9:4)
- "Do you not say, 'There are still
four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white
for harvest! (Gen. 8:22;
Matt. 9:37)
- "And he who reaps receives wages,
and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who
reaps may rejoice together. (Dan.
12:3; 1
Thess. 2:19)
- "For in this the saying is true:
'One
sows and another reaps.'
- I sent you to reap that for which
you have not laboured, others have laboured, and you have entered into
their labours." (John 17:18)
- And many of the Samaritans of that
city
believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified.
"He told me all that I ever did." (John 4:29)
- So when the Samaritans had come to
Him,
they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
- And many more believed because of
His own word. (Luke 4:32)
- Then they said to the woman, "Now
we believe, not because of what you said, for we have heard for
ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the
world." (1 John 4:14)
- Now after the two days He departed
from
there and went to Galilee. (Matt. 4:12; Luke 4:14)
- For Jesus Himself testified that a
prophet has no honour in his own country. (Matt. 13:57)
- So when He came to Galilee, the
Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem
at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.
- So Jesus came again to Cana of
Galilee
where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain
nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. (John
2:9)
- When he heard that Jesus had come
out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down
and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
- Then Jesus said to him, "Unless
you
people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe." (1 Cor. 1:22)
- The nobleman said to Him, "Sir,
come
down before my child dies!"
- Jesus said to him, "Go your way;
your
son lives." So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him,
and he went his way.
- And as he was now going down, his
servants met him and told him, saying, "Your son lives!"
- Then he inquired of them the hour
when he got better. And they said to him, "Yesterday at the
seventh
hour the fever left him."
- So the father knew that it was at
the same hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." And
he himself believed, and his whole household.
- This again is the second sign that
Jesus
did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.
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