Search for commentaries – John 4

Jesus Meets the Samaritan Women
To avoid conflict with the Pharisees, who were alarmed at His increasing popularity, Jesus left Judea and started north for Galilee (vv. 1-3) It states that “He must needs go through Samaria” (v. 4). An Orthodox Jew would have crossed the Jordan River near Jericho, made his way through ...

It is not Where You Worship But How
Jesus told the woman to go and to return to him with her husband (v. 16). As Jesus was a man, it would have been inappropriate for him to give the woman anything of value without her husband ...

The Harvest is Ready
When the disciples returned with food they were amazed to find Jesus conversing with a Samaritan woman (v. 27). Their return apparently ended the conversation between Jesus and the woman. All evidence indicates she was beginning to drink of the Living Water (v. 25). The woman left her ...

Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son
After passing through Samaria, Jesus returns to Cana in Galilee (v. 46). Perhaps He wanted to follow up on the ones He had witnessed to during the wedding feast. While there, a nobleman (royal officer) from Capernaum, some twenty miles away, came to see if Jesus would come and ...

Jesus’ time with the Samaritans
Many Samaritans from Sychar believed in Jesus after hearing the testimony of the woman at the well, “He told me all that I ever did” (v. 39). There’s a lesson here for believers. When we share our personal testimony of what God done in our lives, God can use our story to help point others ...