john-4:13-18,-john-4:28-niv

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 4:4-26

We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themselves. They worshipped the God of Israel only, to whom they erected a temple on mount Gerizim, in... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 4:10-15

4:10-15 Jesus answered her: "If you knew the free gift that God is offering you, and if you knew who is speaking to you, and if you knew who was saying to you: 'Give me to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him: "Sir, you have no bucket to draw with and the well is deep. Where does this living water that you have come from? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and who himself drank from it with his children and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 4:15-21

4:15-21 The woman said to him: "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst, and so that I will not have to come here to draw water." Jesus said to her: "Go, call your husband, and come back here." The woman answered: "I have not got a husband." Jesus said to her: "You spoke well when you said, 'I have not got a husband.' For you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. This is the truth that you have told." The woman said to him: "Sir, I see that you are a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:13

Jesus answered and said unto her ,.... In a mild and gentle manner, patiently bearing all her scoffs and flouts, and continuing to instruct and inform her, concerning this living water, showing the preferableness of it to all others: whosoever drinketh of this water ; meaning in that well called Jacob's well, or any other common water: shall thirst again ; as this woman had often done, and would again, as she herself knew, John 4:15 , and as Jesus did, who very likely afterwards... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:14

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him ,.... Meaning, the Spirit and his grace; see John 7:38 ; and which he more than once speaks of, as his gift here, and in the context: of which, whoever truly partakes, shall never thirst ; either after sinful lusts and pleasures, and his former vicious way of living, which he now disrelishes: not but there are desires and lustings after carnal things in regenerate persons, as there were lustings in the Israelites, after the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:15

The woman saith unto him, Sir ,.... See Gill on John 4:11 ; give me this water, that I thirst not . The Syriac and Persic versions add, "again": neither come hither ; the Ethiopic version adds here, "again"; to draw . This she said also, in the same sneering and scoffing way, as her talking of not thirsting and coming thither to draw water, shows; and it is as if she had said, pray give me some of this fine water you talk of, that I may never thirst again; and so have no... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:16

Jesus saith unto her ,.... Observing that she continued an ignorant scoffer at him, and his words, determined to take another method with her; and convince her, that he was not a common and ordinary person she was conversing with, as she took him to be; and also what a sinner she was, and what a vicious course of life she had lived; so that she might see that she stood in need of him, as the gift of God, and Saviour of men; and of the grace he had been speaking of, under the notion of living... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:17

The woman answered and said, I have no husband ,.... Which was a truth she would not have spoke at another time and place, or to any of her neighbours; but Christ being a stranger, and no odium incurring upon her by it; and this serving a purpose to excuse her going to call him, she declares the truth of the matter: Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband ; this is the truth, it is really fact, and is the true state of the case, between thee and him, who goes for thy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:18

For thou hast had five husbands ,.... Which she either had had lawfully, and had buried one after another; and which was no crime, and might be: the Sadducees propose a case to Christ, in which a woman is said to have had seven husbands successively, in a lawful manner, Matthew 22:25 . Or rather, she had had so many, and had been divorced from everyone of them, for adultery; for no other cause it should seem did the Samaritans divorce; seeing that they only received the law of Moses, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 4:14

Springing up into everlasting life - On this account he can never thirst: - for how can he lack water who has in himself a living, eternal spring? By this water our Lord means also his doctrine, explaining and promising the gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost, which proceed from Jesus Christ their fountain, dwelling in a believing heart. There is no eternal life without the Spirit; no Spirit without Christ; and no Christ to give the Spirit, without dwelling in the heart: this his whole... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 4:4-26

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 4:10-15

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 4:15-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 4:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 4:14

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