Greek NT with variants

1ωςG5613{ADV} ουνG3767{CONJ} εγνωG1097{V-2AAI-3S} οG3588{T-NSM} αιησουςG2424{N-NSM} τσβκυριοςG2962{N-NSM} οτιG3754{CONJ} ηκουσανG191{V-AAI-3P} οιG3588{T-NPM} φαρισαιοιG5330{N-NPM} οτιG3754{CONJ} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} πλειοναςG4119{A-APM-C} μαθηταςG3101{N-APM} ποιειG4160{V-PAI-3S} καιG2532{CONJ} βαπτιζειG907{V-PAI-3S} ηG2228{PRT} ιωαννηςG2491{N-NSM} 2καιτοιγεG2544{CONJ} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} αυτοςG846{P-NSM} ουκG3756{PRT-N} εβαπτιζενG907{V-IAI-3S} αλλG235{CONJ} οιG3588{T-NPM} μαθηταιG3101{N-NPM} αυτουG846{P-GSM} 3αφηκενG863{V-AAI-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ιουδαιανG2449{N-ASF} καιG2532{CONJ} απηλθενG565{V-2AAI-3S} ατσπαλινG3825{ADV} ειςG1519{PREP} τηνG3588{T-ASF} γαλιλαιανG1056{N-ASF} 4εδειG1163{V-IQI-3S} δεG1161{CONJ} αυτονG846{P-ASM} διερχεσθαιG1330{V-PNN} διαG1223{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} σαμαρειαςG4540{N-GSF} 5ερχεταιG2064{V-PNI-3S} ουνG3767{CONJ} ειςG1519{PREP} πολινG4172{N-ASF} τηςG3588{T-GSF} σαμαρειαςG4540{N-GSF} λεγομενηνG3004{V-PPP-ASF} συχαρG4965{N-PRI} πλησιονG4139{ADV} τουG3588{T-GSN} χωριουG5564{N-GSN} οG3739{R-ASN} εδωκενG1325{V-AAI-3S} ιακωβG2384{N-PRI} α[τω]G3588{T-DSM} ιωσηφG2501{N-PRI} τωG3588{T-DSM} υιωG5207{N-DSM} αυτουG846{P-GSM} 6ηνG2258{V-IXI-3S} δεG1161{CONJ} εκειG1563{ADV} πηγηG4077{N-NSF} τουG3588{T-GSM} ιακωβG2384{N-PRI} οG3588{T-NSM} ουνG3767{CONJ} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} κεκοπιακωςG2872{V-RAP-NSM} εκG1537{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} οδοιποριαςG3597{N-GSF} εκαθεζετοG2516{V-INI-3S} ουτωςG3779{ADV} επιG1909{PREP} τηG3588{T-DSF} πηγηG4077{N-DSF} ωραG5610{N-NSF} ηνG2258{V-IXI-3S} αωςG5613{ADV} τσβωσειG5616{ADV} εκτηG1623{A-NSF} 7ερχεταιG2064{V-PNI-3S} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} εκG1537{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} σαμαρειαςG4540{N-GSF} αντλησαιG501{V-AAN} υδωρG5204{N-ASN} λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} οG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} δοςG1325{V-2AAM-2S} μοιG3427{P-1DS} απεινG4095{V-2AAN} τσβπιεινG4095{V-2AAN} 8οιG3588{T-NPM} γαρG1063{CONJ} μαθηταιG3101{N-NPM} αυτουG846{P-GSM} απεληλυθεισανG565{V-LAI-3P} ειςG1519{PREP} τηνG3588{T-ASF} πολινG4172{N-ASF} ιναG2443{CONJ} τροφαςG5160{N-APF} αγορασωσινG59{V-AAS-3P} 9λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} ουνG3767{CONJ} αυτωG846{P-DSM} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} ηG3588{T-NSF} ασαμαριτιςG4542{N-NSF} τσβσαμαρειτιςG4542{N-NSF} πωςG4459{ADV-I} συG4771{P-2NS} ιουδαιοςG2453{A-NSM} ωνG5607{V-PXP-NSM} παρG3844{PREP} εμουG1700{P-1GS} απεινG4095{V-2AAN} τσβπιεινG4095{V-2AAN} αιτειςG154{V-PAI-2S} τσβουσηςG5607{V-PXP-GSF} γυναικοςG1135{N-GSF} ασαμαριτιδοςG4542{N-GSF} αουσηςG5607{V-PXP-GSF} τσβσαμαρειτιδοςG4542{N-GSF} ουG3756{PRT-N} γαρG1063{CONJ} συγχρωνταιG4798{V-PNI-3P} ιουδαιοιG2453{A-NPM} ασαμαριταιςG4541{N-DPM} τσβσαμαρειταιςG4541{N-DPM} 10απεκριθηG611{V-ADI-3S} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} καιG2532{CONJ} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} ειG1487{COND} ηδειςG1492{V-LAI-2S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} δωρεανG1431{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSM} θεουG2316{N-GSM} καιG2532{CONJ} τιςG5101{I-NSM} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} οG3588{T-NSM} λεγωνG3004{V-PAP-NSM} σοιG4671{P-2DS} δοςG1325{V-2AAM-2S} μοιG3427{P-1DS} απεινG4095{V-2AAN} τσβπιεινG4095{V-2AAN} συG4771{P-2NS} ανG302{PRT} ητησαςG154{V-AAI-2S} αυτονG846{P-ASM} καιG2532{CONJ} εδωκενG1325{V-AAI-3S} ανG302{PRT} σοιG4671{P-2DS} υδωρG5204{N-ASN} ζωνG2198{V-PAP-ASN} 11λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} α[ηG3588{T-NSF} τσβηG3588{T-NSF} αγυνη]G1135{N-NSF} τσβγυνηG1135{N-NSF} κυριεG2962{N-VSM} ουτεG3777{CONJ} αντλημαG502{N-ASN} εχειςG2192{V-PAI-2S} καιG2532{CONJ} τοG3588{T-NSN} φρεαρG5421{N-NSN} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} βαθυG901{A-NSN} ποθενG4159{ADV-I} ουνG3767{CONJ} εχειςG2192{V-PAI-2S} τοG3588{T-ASN} υδωρG5204{N-ASN} τοG3588{T-ASN} ζωνG2198{V-PAP-ASN} 12μηG3361{PRT-N} συG4771{P-2NS} μειζωνG3187{A-NSM-C} ειG1488{V-PXI-2S} τουG3588{T-GSM} πατροςG3962{N-GSM} ημωνG2257{P-1GP} ιακωβG2384{N-PRI} οςG3739{R-NSM} εδωκενG1325{V-AAI-3S} ημινG2254{P-1DP} τοG3588{T-ASN} φρεαρG5421{N-ASN} καιG2532{CONJ} αυτοςG846{P-NSM} εξG1537{PREP} αυτουG846{P-GSN} επιενG4095{V-2AAI-3S} καιG2532{CONJ} οιG3588{T-NPM} υιοιG5207{N-NPM} αυτουG846{P-GSM} καιG2532{CONJ} ταG3588{T-NPN} θρεμματαG2353{N-NPN} αυτουG846{P-GSM} 13απεκριθηG611{V-ADI-3S} τσοG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} καιG2532{CONJ} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} παςG3956{A-NSM} οG3588{T-NSM} πινωνG4095{V-PAP-NSM} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSN} υδατοςG5204{N-GSN} τουτουG5127{D-GSN} διψησειG1372{V-FAI-3S} παλινG3825{ADV} 14οςG3739{R-NSM} δG1161{CONJ} ανG302{PRT} πιηG4095{V-2AAS-3S} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSN} υδατοςG5204{N-GSN} ουG3739{R-GSN} εγωG1473{P-1NS} δωσωG1325{V-FAI-1S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} ουG3756{PRT-N} μηG3361{PRT-N} αδιψησειG1372{V-FAI-3S} τσβδιψησηG1372{V-AAS-3S} ειςG1519{PREP} τονG3588{T-ASM} αιωναG165{N-ASM} αλλαG235{CONJ} τοG3588{T-NSN} υδωρG5204{N-NSN} οG3739{R-ASN} δωσωG1325{V-FAI-1S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} γενησεταιG1096{V-FDI-3S} ενG1722{PREP} αυτωG846{P-DSM} πηγηG4077{N-NSF} υδατοςG5204{N-GSN} αλλομενουG242{V-PNP-GSN} ειςG1519{PREP} ζωηνG2222{N-ASF} αιωνιονG166{A-ASF} 15λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} προςG4314{PREP} αυτονG846{P-ASM} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} κυριεG2962{N-VSM} δοςG1325{V-2AAM-2S} μοιG3427{P-1DS} τουτοG5124{D-ASN} τοG3588{T-ASN} υδωρG5204{N-ASN} ιναG2443{CONJ} μηG3361{PRT-N} διψωG1372{V-PAS-1S} μηδεG3366{CONJ} αδιερχωμαιG1330{V-PNS-1S} βερχομαιG2064{V-PNI-1S} τσερχωμαιG2064{V-PNS-1S} ενθαδεG1759{ADV} αντλεινG501{V-PAN} 16λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} τσβοG3588{T-NSM} τσβιησουςG2424{N-NSM} υπαγεG5217{V-PAM-2S} φωνησονG5455{V-AAM-2S} τονG3588{T-ASM} ανδραG435{N-ASM} σουG4675{P-2GS} καιG2532{CONJ} ελθεG2064{V-2AAM-2S} ενθαδεG1759{ADV} 17απεκριθηG611{V-ADI-3S} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} καιG2532{CONJ} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} ααυτωG846{P-DSM} ουκG3756{PRT-N} εχωG2192{V-PAI-1S} ανδραG435{N-ASM} λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} οG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} καλωςG2573{ADV} ειπαςG2036{V-2AAI-2S} οτιG3754{CONJ} ανδραG435{N-ASM} ουκG3756{PRT-N} εχωG2192{V-PAI-1S} 18πεντεG4002{A-NUI} γαρG1063{CONJ} ανδραςG435{N-APM} εσχεςG2192{V-2AAI-2S} καιG2532{CONJ} νυνG3568{ADV} ονG3739{R-ASM} εχειςG2192{V-PAI-2S} ουκG3756{PRT-N} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} σουG4675{P-2GS} ανηρG435{N-NSM} τουτοG5124{D-ASN} αληθεςG227{A-ASN} ειρηκαςG2046{V-RAI-2S-ATT} 19λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} κυριεG2962{N-VSM} θεωρωG2334{V-PAI-1S} οτιG3754{CONJ} προφητηςG4396{N-NSM} ειG1488{V-PXI-2S} συG4771{P-2NS} 20οιG3588{T-NPM} πατερεςG3962{N-NPM} ημωνG2257{P-1GP} ενG1722{PREP} τστουτωG5129{D-DSN} τωG3588{T-DSN} ορειG3735{N-DSN} αβτουτωG5129{D-DSN} προσεκυνησανG4352{V-AAI-3P} καιG2532{CONJ} υμειςG5210{P-2NP} λεγετεG3004{V-PAI-2P} οτιG3754{CONJ} ενG1722{PREP} ιεροσολυμοιςG2414{N-DPN} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} οG3588{T-NSM} τοποςG5117{N-NSM} οπουG3699{ADV} τσβδειG1163{V-PQI-3S} προσκυνεινG4352{V-PAN} αδειG1163{V-PQI-3S} 21λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} οG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} απιστευεG4100{V-PAM-2S} τσβγυναιG1135{N-VSF} τσβπιστευσονG4100{V-AAM-2S} μοιG3427{P-1DS} αγυναιG1135{N-VSF} οτιG3754{CONJ} ερχεταιG2064{V-PNI-3S} ωραG5610{N-NSF} οτεG3753{ADV} ουτεG3777{CONJ} ενG1722{PREP} τωG3588{T-DSN} ορειG3735{N-DSN} τουτωG5129{D-DSN} ουτεG3777{CONJ} ενG1722{PREP} ιεροσολυμοιςG2414{N-DPN} προσκυνησετεG4352{V-FAI-2P} τωG3588{T-DSM} πατριG3962{N-DSM} 22υμειςG5210{P-2NP} προσκυνειτεG4352{V-PAI-2P} οG3739{R-ASN} ουκG3756{PRT-N} οιδατεG1492{V-RAI-2P} ημειςG2249{P-1NP} προσκυνουμενG4352{V-PAI-1P} οG3739{R-ASN} οιδαμενG1492{V-RAI-1P} οτιG3754{CONJ} ηG3588{T-NSF} σωτηριαG4991{N-NSF} εκG1537{PREP} τωνG3588{T-GPM} ιουδαιωνG2453{A-GPM} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} 23ααλλαG235{CONJ} τσβαλλG235{CONJ} ερχεταιG2064{V-PNI-3S} ωραG5610{N-NSF} καιG2532{CONJ} νυνG3568{ADV} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} οτεG3753{ADV} οιG3588{T-NPM} αληθινοιG228{A-NPM} προσκυνηταιG4353{N-NPM} προσκυνησουσινG4352{V-FAI-3P} τωG3588{T-DSM} πατριG3962{N-DSM} ενG1722{PREP} πνευματιG4151{N-DSN} καιG2532{CONJ} αληθειαG225{N-DSF} καιG2532{CONJ} γαρG1063{CONJ} οG3588{T-NSM} πατηρG3962{N-NSM} τοιουτουςG5108{D-APM} ζητειG2212{V-PAI-3S} τουςG3588{T-APM} προσκυνουνταςG4352{V-PAP-APM} αυτονG846{P-ASM} 24πνευμαG4151{N-NSN} οG3588{T-NSM} θεοςG2316{N-NSM} καιG2532{CONJ} τουςG3588{T-APM} προσκυνουνταςG4352{V-PAP-APM} αυτονG846{P-ASM} ενG1722{PREP} πνευματιG4151{N-DSN} καιG2532{CONJ} αληθειαG225{N-DSF} δειG1163{V-PQI-3S} προσκυνεινG4352{V-PAN} 25λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} οιδαG1492{V-RAI-1S} οτιG3754{CONJ} βμεσιαςG3323{N-NSM} ατσμεσσιαςG3323{N-NSM} ερχεταιG2064{V-PNI-3S} οG3588{T-NSM} λεγομενοςG3004{V-PPP-NSM} χριστοςG5547{N-NSM} οτανG3752{CONJ} ελθηG2064{V-2AAS-3S} εκεινοςG1565{D-NSM} αναγγελειG312{V-FAI-3S} ημινG2254{P-1DP} ααπανταG537{A-APN} τσβπανταG3956{A-APN} 26λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτηG846{P-DSF} οG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} εγωG1473{P-1NS} ειμιG1510{V-PXI-1S} οG3588{T-NSM} λαλωνG2980{V-PAP-NSM} σοιG4671{P-2DS} 27καιG2532{CONJ} επιG1909{PREP} τουτωG5129{D-DSM} αηλθανG2064{V-2AAI-3P} τσβηλθονG2064{V-2AAI-3P} οιG3588{T-NPM} μαθηταιG3101{N-NPM} αυτουG846{P-GSM} καιG2532{CONJ} αεθαυμαζονG2296{V-IAI-3P} τσβεθαυμασανG2296{V-AAI-3P} οτιG3754{CONJ} μεταG3326{PREP} γυναικοςG1135{N-GSF} ελαλειG2980{V-IAI-3S} ουδειςG3762{A-NSM} μεντοιG3305{CONJ} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} τιG5101{I-ASN} ζητειςG2212{V-PAI-2S} ηG2228{PRT} τιG5101{I-ASN} λαλειςG2980{V-PAI-2S} μετG3326{PREP} αυτηςG846{P-GSF} 28αφηκενG863{V-AAI-3S} ουνG3767{CONJ} τηνG3588{T-ASF} υδριανG5201{N-ASF} αυτηςG846{P-GSF} ηG3588{T-NSF} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} καιG2532{CONJ} απηλθενG565{V-2AAI-3S} ειςG1519{PREP} τηνG3588{T-ASF} πολινG4172{N-ASF} καιG2532{CONJ} λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} τοιςG3588{T-DPM} ανθρωποιςG444{N-DPM} 29δευτεG1205{V-XXM-2P} ιδετεG1492{V-2AAM-2P} ανθρωπονG444{N-ASM} οςG3739{R-NSM} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} μοιG3427{P-1DS} πανταG3956{A-APN} οσαG3745{K-APN} εποιησαG4160{V-AAI-1S} μητιG3385{PRT-I} ουτοςG3778{D-NSM} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} οG3588{T-NSM} χριστοςG5547{N-NSM} 30εξηλθονG1831{V-2AAI-3P} τσουνG3767{CONJ} εκG1537{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} πολεωςG4172{N-GSF} καιG2532{CONJ} ηρχοντοG2064{V-INI-3P} προςG4314{PREP} αυτονG846{P-ASM} 31ενG1722{PREP} τσβδεG1161{CONJ} τωG3588{T-DSM} μεταξυG3342{ADV} ηρωτωνG2065{V-IAI-3P} αυτονG846{P-ASM} οιG3588{T-NPM} μαθηταιG3101{N-NPM} λεγοντεςG3004{V-PAP-NPM} ραββιG4461{HEB} φαγεG5315{V-2AAM-2S} 32οG3588{T-NSM} δεG1161{CONJ} ειπενG2036{V-2AAI-3S} αυτοιςG846{P-DPM} εγωG1473{P-1NS} βρωσινG1035{N-ASF} εχωG2192{V-PAI-1S} φαγεινG5315{V-2AAN} ηνG3739{R-ASF} υμειςG5210{P-2NP} ουκG3756{PRT-N} οιδατεG1492{V-RAI-2P} 33ελεγονG3004{V-IAI-3P} ουνG3767{CONJ} οιG3588{T-NPM} μαθηταιG3101{N-NPM} προςG4314{PREP} αλληλουςG240{C-APM} μηG3361{PRT-N} τιςG5100{X-NSM} ηνεγκενG5342{V-AAI-3S} αυτωG846{P-DSM} φαγεινG5315{V-2AAN} 34λεγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} αυτοιςG846{P-DPM} οG3588{T-NSM} ιησουςG2424{N-NSM} εμονG1699{S-1NSN} βρωμαG1033{N-NSN} εστινG2076{V-PXI-3S} ιναG2443{CONJ} αποιησωG4160{V-AAS-1S} τσβποιωG4160{V-PAS-1S} τοG3588{T-ASN} θελημαG2307{N-ASN} τουG3588{T-GSM} πεμψαντοςG3992{V-AAP-GSM} μεG3165{P-1AS} καιG2532{CONJ} τελειωσωG5048{V-AAS-1S} αυτουG846{P-GSM} τοG3588{T-ASN} εργονG2041{N-ASN} 35ουχG3756{PRT-N} υμειςG5210{P-2NP} λεγετεG3004{V-PAI-2P} οτιG3754{CONJ} ετιG2089{ADV} αβτετραμηνοςG5072{A-NSM} τστετραμηνονG5072{A-NSN} 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Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary
 1   CHRIST AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA--THE SAMARITANS OF SYCHAR. (John 4:1-42)
the Lord knew--not by report, but in the sense of John 2:25, for which reason He is here styled "the Lord."

 2   Jesus baptized not--John being a servant baptized with his own hand; Christ as the Master, "baptizing with the Holy Ghost," administered the outward symbol only through His disciples.

 3   left Judea--to avoid persecution, which at that early stage would have marred His work.
departed into Galilee--by which time John had been cast into prison (Mark 1:14).

 4   must needs go through Samaria--for a geographical reason, no doubt, as it lay straight in his way, but certainly not without a higher design.

 5   cometh . . . to--that is, as far as: for He remained at some distance from it.
Sychar--the "Shechem" of the Old Testament, about thirty-four miles from Jerusalem, afterwards called "Neapolis," and now "Nablous."

 6   wearied . . . sat thus--that is, "as you might fancy a weary man would"; an instance of the graphic style of St. John [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. In fact, this is perhaps the most human of all the scenes of our Lord's earthly history. We seem to be beside Him, overhearing all that is here recorded, nor could any painting of the scene on canvas, however perfect, do other than lower the conception which this exquisite narrative conveys to the devout and intelligent reader. But with all that is human, how much also of the divine have we here, both blended in one glorious manifestation of the majesty, grace, pity, patience with which "the Lord" imparts light and life to this unlikeliest of strangers, standing midway between Jews and heathens.
the sixth hour--noonday, reckoning from six A.M. From Song 1:7 we know, as from other sources, that the very flocks "rested at noon." But Jesus, whose maxim was, "I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day" (John 9:4), seems to have denied Himself that repose, at least on this occasion, probably that He might reach this well when He knew the woman would be there. Once there, however, He accepts . . . the grateful ease of a seat on the patriarchal stone. But what music is that which I hear from His lips, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt 11:28).

 7   Give me to drink--for the heat of a noonday sun had parched His lips. But "in the last, that great day of the feast," Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink" (John 7:37).

 9   How is it that thou--not altogether refusing, yet wondering at so unusual a request from a Jew, as His dress and dialect would at once discover Him to be, to a Samaritan.
for, &c.--It is this national antipathy that gives point to the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-Luke 10:37), and the thankfulness of the Samaritan leper (Luke 17:16, Luke 17:18).

 10   If thou knewest, &c.--that is, "In Me thou seest only a petitioner to thee but if thou knewest who that Petitioner is, and the Gift that God is giving to men, thou wouldst have changed places with Him, gladly suing of Him living water--nor shouldst thou have sued in vain" (gently reflecting on her for not immediately meeting His request).

 12   Art thou greater, &c.--already perceiving in this Stranger a claim to some mysterious greatness.
our father Jacob--for when it went well with the Jews, they claimed kindred with them, as being descended from Joseph; but when misfortunes befell the Jews, they disowned all connection with them [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 9.14,3].

 13   thirst again . . . never thirst, &c.--The contrast here is fundamental and all comprehensive. "This water" plainly means "this natural water and all satisfactions of a like earthly and perishable nature." Coming to us from without, and reaching only the superficial parts of our nature, they are soon spent, and need to be anew supplied as much as if we had never experienced them before, while the deeper wants of our being are not reached by them at all; whereas the "water" that Christ gives--spiritual life--is struck out of the very depths of our being, making the soul not a cistern, for holding water poured into it from without, but a fountain (the word had been better so rendered, to distinguish it from the word rendered "well" in John 4:11), springing, gushing, bubbling up and flowing forth within us, ever fresh, ever living. The indwelling of the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Christ is the secret of this life with all its enduring energies and satisfactions, as is expressly said (John 7:37-John 7:39). "Never thirsting," then, means simply that such souls have the supplies at home.
into everlasting life--carrying the thoughts up from the eternal freshness and vitality of these waters to the great ocean in which they have their confluence. "Thither may I arrive!" [BENGEL].

 15   give me this water, &c.--This is not obtuseness--that is giving way--it expresses a wondering desire after she scarce knew what from this mysterious Stranger.

 16   call thy husband--now proceeding to arouse her slumbering conscience by laying bare the guilty life she was leading, and by the minute details which that life furnished, not only bringing her sin vividly up before her, but preparing her to receive in His true character that wonderful Stranger to whom her whole life, in its minutest particulars, evidently lay open.

 19   Sir, I perceive, &c.--Seeing herself all revealed, does she now break down and ask what hopes there might be for one so guilty? Nay, her convictions have not reached that point yet. She ingeniously shifts the subject from a personal to a public question. It is not, "Alas, what a wicked life am I leading!" but "Lo, what a wonderful prophet I got into conversation with! He will be able to settle that interminable dispute between us and the Jews. Sir, you must know all about such matters--our fathers hold to this mountain here," pointing to Gerizim in Samaria, "as the divinely consecrated place of worship, but ye Jews say that Jerusalem is the proper place--which of us is right?" How slowly does the human heart submit to thorough humiliation! (Compare the prodigal; see on Luke 15:15). Doubtless our Lord saw through the fetch; but does He say, "That question is not the point just now, but have you been living in the way described, yea or nay? Till this is disposed of I cannot be drawn into theological controversies." The Prince of preachers takes another method: He humors the poor woman, letting her take her own way, allowing her to lead while He follows--but thus only the more effectually gaining His object. He answers her question, pours light into her mind on the spirituality of all true worship, as of its glorious Object, and so brings her insensibly to the point at which He could disclose to her wondering mind whom she was all the while speaking to.

 21   Woman, &c.--Here are three weighty pieces of information: (1) The point raised will very soon cease to be of any moment, for a total change of dispensation is about to come over the Church. (2) The Samaritans are wrong, not only as to the place, but the whole grounds and nature of their worship, while in all these respects the truth lies with the Jews. (3) As God is a Spirit, so He both invites and demands a spiritual worship, and already all is in preparation for a spiritual economy, more in harmony with the true nature of acceptable service than the ceremonial worship by consecrated persons, place, and times, which God for a time has seen meet to keep up till fulness of the time should come.
neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem--that is, exclusively (Mal 1:11; 1Tim 2:8).
worship the Father--She had talked simply of "worship"; our Lord brings up before her the great OBJECT of all acceptable worship--"THE FATHER."

 22   Ye worship ye know not what--without any revealed authority, and so very much in the dark. In this sense, the Jews knew what they were about. But the most glorious thing here is the reason assigned,
for salvation is of the Jews--intimating to her that Salvation was not a thing left to be reached by any one who might vaguely desire it of a God of mercy, but something that had been revealed, prepared, deposited with a particular people, and must be sought in connection with, and as issuing from them; and that people, "the Jews."

 23   hour cometh, and now is--evidently meaning her to understand that this new economy was in some sense being set up while He was talking to her, a sense which would in a few minutes so far appear, when He told her plainly He was the Christ.

 25   I know Messias cometh . . . when He is come, &c.--If we take our Lord's immediate disclosure of Himself, in answer to this, as the proper key to its meaning to His ear, we can hardly doubt that the woman was already all but prepared for even this startling announcement, which indeed she seems (from John 4:29) to have already begun to suspect by His revealing her to herself. Thus quickly, under so matchless a Teacher, was she brought up from her sunken condition to a frame of mind and heart capable of the noblest revelations.
tell us all things--an expectation founded probably on Deut 18:15.

 26   I that speak . . . am he--He scarce ever said anything like this to His own people, the Jews. He had magnified them to the woman, and yet to themselves He is to the last far more reserved than to her--proving rather than plainly telling them He was the Christ. But what would not have been safe among them was safe enough with her, whose simplicity at this stage of the conversation appears from the sequel to have become perfect. What now will the woman say? We listen, the scene has changed, a new party arrives, the disciples have been to Sychar, at some distance, to buy bread, and on their return are astonished at the company their Lord has been holding in their absence.

 27   marvelled that he talked with the woman--It never probably occurred to them to marvel that He talked with themselves; yet in His eye, as the sequel shows, He was quite as nobly employed. How poor, if not false, are many of our most plausible estimates!
no man said . . . What? . . . Why?--awed by the spectacle, and thinking there must be something under it.

 28   left her water-pot--How exquisitely natural! The presence of strangers made her feel that it was time for her to withdraw, and He who knew what was in her heart, and what she was going to the city to do, let her go without exchanging a word with her in the hearing of others. Their interview was too sacred, and the effect on the woman too overpowering (not to speak of His own deep emotion) to allow of its being continued. But this one artless touch--that she "left her water-pot"--speaks volumes. The living water was already beginning to spring up within her; she found that man doth not live by bread nor by water only, and that there was a water of wondrous virtue that raised people above meat and drink, and the vessels that held them, and all human things. In short, she was transported, forgot everything but One, and her heart running over with the tale she had to tell, she hastens home and pours it out.

 29   is not this the Christ--The form of the question (in the Greek) is a distant, modest way of only half insinuating what it seemed hardly fitting for her to affirm; nor does she refer to what He said of Himself, but solely to His disclosure to her of the particulars of her own life.

 30   Then they went out, &c.--How different from the Jews! and richly was their openness to conviction rewarded.

 31   meantime--that is, while the woman was away.
Master, eat--Fatigue and thirst we saw He felt; here is revealed another of our common infirmities to which the Lord was subject--hunger.

 32   meat ye know not of--What spirituality of mind! "I have been eating all the while, and such food as ye dream not of." What can that be? they ask each other; have any supplies been brought Him in our absence? He knows what they are saying though He hears it not.

 34   My meat is, &c.--"A Servant here to fulfil a prescribed work, to do and to finish, that is 'meat' to Me; and of this, while you were away, I have had My fill." And of what does He speak thus? Of the condescension, pity, patience, wisdom He had been laying out upon one soul--a very humble woman, and in some respects repulsive too! But He had gained her, and through her was going to gain more, and lay perhaps the foundations of a great work in the country of Samaria; and this filled His whole soul and raised Him above the sense of natural hunger (Matt 4:4).

 35   yet four months, and then harvest--that is, "In current speech, ye say thus at this season; but lift up your eyes and look upon those fields in the light of another husbandry, for lo! in that sense, they are even now white to harvest, ready for the sickle." The simple beauty of this language is only surpassed by the glow of holy emotion in the Redeemer's own soul which it expresses. It refers to the ripeness of these Sycharites for accession to Him, and the joy of this great Lord of the reapers over the anticipated ingathering. Oh, could we but so, "lift up our eyes and look" upon many fields abroad and at home, which to dull sense appear unpromising, as He beheld those of Samaria, what movements, as yet scarce in embryo, and accessions to Christ, as yet seemingly far distant, might we not discern as quite near at hand, and thus, amidst difficulties and discouragements too much for nature to sustain, be cheered--as our Lord Himself was in circumstances far more overwhelming--with "songs in the night!"

 36   he that reapeth, &c.--As our Lord could not mean that the reaper only, and not the sower, received "wages," in the sense of personal reward for his work, the "wages" here can be no other than the joy of having such a harvest to gather in--the joy of "gathering fruit unto life eternal."
rejoice together--The blessed issue of the whole ingathering is the interest alike of the sower as of the reaper; it is no more the fruit of the last operation than of the first; and just as there can be no reaping without previous sowing, so have those servants of Christ, to whom is assigned the pleasant task of merely reaping the spiritual harvest, no work to do, and no joy to taste, that has not been prepared to their hand by the toilsome and often thankless work of their predecessors in the field. The joy, therefore, of the great harvest festivity will be the common joy of all who have taken any part in the work from the first operation to the last. (See Deut 16:11, Deut 16:14; Ps 126:6; Isa 9:3). What encouragement is here for those "fishers of men" who "have toiled all the night" of their official life, and, to human appearance, "have taken nothing!"

 38   I sent you, &c.--The I is emphatic--I, the Lord of the whole harvest: "sent you," points to their past appointment to the apostleship, though it has reference only to their future discharge of it, for they had nothing to do with the present ingathering of the Sycharites.
ye bestowed no labour--meaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. (See on John 4:42).
others laboured--Referring to the Old Testament laborers, the Baptist, and by implication Himself, though He studiously keeps this in the background, that the line of distinction between Himself and all His servants might not be lost sight of. "Christ represents Himself as the Husbandman [rather the Lord of the laborers], who has the direction both of the sowing and of the harvest, who commissions all the agents--those of the Old Testament as well as of the New--and therefore does not stand on a level with either the sowers or the reapers" [OLSHAUSEN].

 39   many . . . believed, &c.--The truth of John 4:35 begins to appear. These Samaritans were the foundation of the Church afterwards built up there. No miracle appears to have been wrought there (but unparalleled supernatural knowledge displayed): "we have heard Him ourselves" (John 4:42) sufficed to raise their faith to a point never attained by the Jews, and hardly as yet by the disciples--that He was "the Saviour of the world" [ALFORD]. "This incident is further remarkable as a rare instance of the Lord's ministry producing an awakening on a large scale" [OLSHAUSEN].

 40   abode two days--Two precious days, surely, to the Redeemer Himself! Unsought, He had come to His own, yet His own received Him not: now those who were not His own had come to Him, been won by Him, and invited Him to their town that others might share with them in the benefit of His wonderful ministry. Here, then, would He solace His already wounded spirit and have in this outfield village triumph of His grace, a sublime foretaste of the inbringing of the whole Gentile world into the Church.

 43   SECOND GALILEAN MIRACLE--HEALING OF THE COURTIER'S SON. (John 4:43-John 4:54)
after two days--literally, the two days of His stay at Sychar.

 44   For Jesus testified, &c.--This verse had occasioned much discussion. For it seems strange, if "His own country" here means Nazareth, which was in Galilee, that it should be said He came to Galilee because in one of its towns He expected no good reception. But all will be simple and natural if we fill up the statement thus: "He went into the region of Galilee, but not, as might have been expected, to that part of it called 'His own country,' Nazareth (see Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24), for He acted on the maxim which He oft repeated, that 'a prophet,'" &c.

 45   received--welcomed Him.
having seen . . . at the feast--proud, perhaps, of their Countryman's wonderful works at Jerusalem, and possibly won by this circumstance to regard His claims as at least worthy of respectful investigation. Even this our Lord did not despise, for saving conversion often begins in less than this (so Zaccheus, Luke 19:3-Luke 19:10).
for they also went--that is, it was their practice to go up to the feast.

 46   nobleman--courtier, king's servant, or one connected with a royal household; such as Chuza (Luke 8:3), or Manaen (Acts 13:1).
heard that Jesus was come out of Judea--"where he had doubtless seen or heard what things Jesus had done at Jerusalem" (John 4:45), [BENGEL].
come down--for Capernaum was down on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee.

 48   Except ye see signs, &c.--He did believe, both as his coming and his urgent entreaty show; but how imperfectly we shall see; and our Lord would deepen his faith by such a blunt and seemingly rough answer as He made to Nicodemus.

 49   come down ere my child die--"While we talk, the case is at its crisis, and if Thou come not instantly, all is over." This was faith, but partial, and our Lord would perfect it. The man cannot believe the cure could be wrought without the Physician coming to the patient--the thought of such a thing evidently never occurred to him. But Jesus will in a moment bring him up to this.

 50   Go thy way; thy son liveth--Both effects instantaneously followed:--"The man believed the word," and the cure, shooting quicker than lightning from Cana to Capernaum, was felt by the dying youth. In token of faith, the father takes his leave of Christ--in the circumstances this evidenced full faith. The servants hasten to convey the joyful tidings to the anxious parents, whose faith now only wants one confirmation. "When began he to amend? . . . Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him"--the very hour in which was uttered that great word, "Thy son liveth!" So "himself believed and his whole house." He had believed before this, first very imperfectly; then with assured confidence of Christ's word; but now with a faith crowned by "sight." And the wave rolled from the head to the members of his household. "To-day is salvation come to this house" (Luke 19:9); and no mean house this!
second miracle Jesus did--that is, in Cana; done "after He came out of Judea," as the former before.