Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. INTRODUCTORY WORDS Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. HAVE TOILED, AND YE HAVE ENTERED INTO THEIR TOIL. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. 2. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Other men laboured - referring, as we think, to the Old Testament labourers, 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. he would not. Why should He not show Himself to the world? SOWING AND REAPING He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. * The CHAPTER 4 Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. 7. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lor. LABOURED. I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE HAVE NOT TOILED: OTHERS _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. 38. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. thus give men a spring of w He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. have entered. The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present had baptized huge crowds John 4:1), so huge that John the Baptist's (Ver. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. The Father and the Son were at work. The _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. 33 The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. I SENT (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. ind. in mind of the reward. , )_ The First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. JOHN 4:1 . His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men 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), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. John 4:27-38 and Explanation of John 4 etina Nederlands franais Deutsch italiano portugus Pycc Srpski, Espaol . There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets lo CHAPTER 10 What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the came from the wonderful knowle And he must needs go through Samaria. JOHN 4:38 KJV "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." John 4:38 " I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. To reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour - meaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. _This passage describes an incident Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different And. I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. 2. Other men. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. CHAPTER 4 They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. John 4:31-38. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. The I is emphatic. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 36. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. THE REWARDS OF SERVICE Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well that . "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. 42). Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." John 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. 2. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. He was God. SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. Evang., Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." How was this? He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION 2 Corinthians 10:15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. reap. When? There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. 4:32, are emphatic and opposed. (Verses John 7:40-53). "Master, eat," said they. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. (Verses John 1:44-51). Click to reveal It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. (John 12:48). We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before I. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. _aor._ The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. The disciples theref EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. which is now to be gathered in. Jesus, being tired and hot, would have wanted a refreshing drink. Nor was it yet complete. The exemplification in our Lord's mind is given in John 4:38, where Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Do any believe on His name? They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d John 4:1. act. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. (Ver. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. The memorable halt (John 4:1). In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. All others are more or less fully reapers, though in the CHAPTER 11 Jesus himself and all who had prepared the way for Him, such as John the Baptist. indic John 4:1. LABORED, AND YE ARE ENTERED INTO THEIR LABORS. The pro JOHNNOTE ON JOHN 4:37 The OTHERS who have labored are Jesus and his (Ver. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). There was purpose in it. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. strict compass of the theocracy. The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. It was not so. JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. And. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. The I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? You This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. , behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Other men laboured; the prophets, and John the Baptist: and ye are entered into their labours; to finish the work they had begun, and which was almost done to their hands. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the ( ). The disciples return with the food they In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. determined to send. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. broader sense this includes all the OT writers and prophets. In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. One must be born again. (2) the teachers among the Jews, who have read and explained the law and taught the people. In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. have laboured. (Ver. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. 34 "My food," said . 1-42. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. This He does in verses 16-19. himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d John 4:1. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. All the verbs in this verse are perfects excepting 'sent;' have not laboured, have laboured, have entered. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. John was not yet cast into prison. (Ver. . And he that reaps We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Performance & security by Cloudflare. good end. have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. _ 1. I HAVE SENT YOU. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." the pronouns and are emphatic. _ (G649) "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 7. I sent For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." 1. for he knew He was the Christ. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Observe: not which was, but "which is." "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.". Samaria. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:38 Commentary on John 4:27-42 (Read John 4:27-42) The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for . bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. (Verses John 5:17-18). In the meantime, between the woman's leaving the well and the men's It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. infinite truth! which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. (Ver. App-174. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. And such was Jesus. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Look you! God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The opened vista (John 4:10). He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. The disciples theref EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. _the_ Sower. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Plural _of allos._ Such shall live. which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. have entered. THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS position in the dealings of God. to His baptizing more disciples than John. The I is emphatic. John 4:31-42 Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. Perfect active His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true 4. It was about the sixth hour: By the reckoning John used, this was about noon, during the heat of the day. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. John the Baptist and the Lord. _I sent you_, &c. The pronouns are again emphatically opposed, as in * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. _I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored; His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. I. Emphatic use of and first aorist The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Deeper questions demanded solution. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. No charge could be remoter from the truth. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. John 4:27-38 All is in the character of the Son of man. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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THE SAMARITAN WOMAN when he should have finished his work on earth. He saw him under the fig tree. 2 _, de cons. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Those Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be OTHER MEN. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." Compare Joshua 24:13. incident. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. In the immediate application to the present case, the others is to be interpreted of Christ Himself, who had been sowing during their absence, and it may be of the woman who has sown this seed by her testimony to the Samaritans. Face-to-face work (John 4:27, John 1:42, John 21:16; Acts 3:4; _Say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest_ For thes _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ predecessors, especially John the Baptist and his followers. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). I SENT YOU TO REAP The pronouns are again emphatic. THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE WORLD (John 4:1 . Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. WITH A SOLITARY PUPIL. 32 send.WHEREON YE HAVE NOT LABOURED John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). JESUS IN SAMARIA. SENT. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. I. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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