John 4:6-26 WEB

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:13

Our Saviour in his reply justifieth the excellency of that living water, which he had before declared to be in his power to give, and his readiness to have given to this woman, if she had asked it of him, from the perishing virtue of the water of this well, and the continuing virtue of his grace, which he compared to this living water: no man so assuaged his thirst by drinking of the water of Jacob’s well, but he was subject to thirst again. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:14

But he who receiveth the Holy Spirit, and the grace thereof, though he will be daily saying, Give, give, and be continually desiring further supplies of grace, yet he shall never wholly want, never want any good thing that shall be necessary for him; the seed of God shall abide in him, and this water shall be in him a spring of water, supplying him until he come to heaven. But this text was excellently expounded by our Saviour, John 7:38,John 7:39, He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:15

I am not of their mind, who think that this woman understood our Saviour speaking about spiritual water, only she had a mind to talk; and indeed it is hard to conceive how a woman of her education, and way of life, should understand any such thing; but it is plain that she did not understand him in what he was discoursing about, but doth, as it were, deride him, believing that he had no such thing to bestow. She taketh no notice of the water which our Saviour had spoken of, springing up to... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:16

Not that Christ did not know, what she afterward confessed, that she lived in whoredom, and had no legitimate husband; but he said this probably to check her petulancy, and mocking at what he spake about the living water, and to bring her to a sense of her sin, that she might be more fit to receive the glad tidings of a Saviour, which he was about to publish to her; and this seems rather to be our Saviour’s design in bidding her go call her husband, than (as some of the ancients thought) that... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:17

I have no husband; that is, none who is my lawful husband she denieth not that she had one whom she used and lived with as a husband, but that she had any legal husband, to whom she clave, and to no other: still she goeth on, thinking to deceive Christ, and to put tricks upon him. Christ tells her, she in this did speak truth; he knew she had no legal husband. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:18

He tells her, that she had had five husbands; whether successively, the former being dead, and she marrying another, or five from whom she had been divorced for adultery, is not agreed; the best modern interpreters judge, that she had had five men to whom she had been in marriage, but so behaved herself toward them, that either for her adultery, or some other froward behaviour towards them, they had given her a bill of divorce; and though she now used and lived with one as her husband, yet in... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:19

Whose office is to reveal the will of God, and to whom God revealeth secret things; one to whom the Lord maketh known himself in a vision, and speaketh in a dream, Numbers 12:6. The woman’s reply seemeth to signify both. Her acknowledgment of Christ as a prophet, upon his telling her secret things, justifieth her looking upon him as one to whom God revealed things not known ordinarily to men; and this report of her meaning appeareth by what she said John 4:29, to her fellow citizens, Come, see... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:20

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; the mount Gerizim, which was an exceeding high mountain, and near unto Sichem. Jacob made an altar thereabouts, which he called El-elohe-Israel, Genesis 33:20. Some say that it was upon this, mountain that Abraham should have offered up Isaac, Genesis 22:1-18, but that had another name. Certain it is, that from that mountain Moses pronounced the blessings, Deuteronomy 27:12. But it is very probable that the woman had respect to none of these, but to the... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:21

Woman, thou ownest me as a prophet, whose office it is to reveal the will of God unto men; it is therefore thy duty to give credit to what I shall reveal to time about the true and right way of worshipping God. The time is coming, yea, at hand, when you shall neither in this Mount Gerizim, (where your fathers have long worshipped God superstitiously without any direction from him), nor yet at Jerusalem, (which is the place which the Lord made choice of for his worship), worship my Father, or... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:22

You have no certain rule for your worship, but only do things which your fathers did, without any revelation of the Divine will, by which you may be assured that what you do is acceptable to God. We know that God hath revealed his will, that his people should worship him at Jerusalem by such rites and performances as he himself hath instituted in his word, so as we are certain that what we do is acceptable to God: for unto the Jews (of old) were committed the oracles of God, the ordinary means... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:22

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