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03001
 # Joh 3:25-26
    \\There arose a question . . . about purifying.\\ The ASV
 says "with a Jew," probably a Pharisee who associated baptism
 with ceremonial purification. From the fact that the disciples
 of John mention Jesus, it is evident that his name came up in
 the discussion.
 (PNT 336)
03004
 # Joh 3:28
    \\Ye yourselves bear me testimony.\\ They complain of the
 fact that Jesus baptized and was very popular at this time, but
 John refers to the witness he had borne, and affirms that each
 is fulfilling the work "given him of heaven."
 # 1:20,29
 (PNT 336)
03005
 # Joh 3:29
    \\The bride.\\ The Church.
    \\The bridegroom.\\ Christ.
    \\The friend of the bridegroom.\\ John already rejoices in
 the prospect of the union of the Bridegroom and Bride.
 (PNT 336)
03007
 # Joh 3:31
    \\He that cometh from above.\\ Christ, who is, therefore,
 above and over John.
 (PNT 336)
03008
 # Joh 3:32
    \\No man receiveth his testimony.\\ So few at that time that
 those who received were as nothing in contrast with the others.
 (PNT 336)
03012
 # Joh 3:36
    \\He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.\\
 Eternal life and eternal death turn upon trust in Christ. He who
 believes on the Son with a heartfelt, obedient faith, a faith
 that trusts all and surrenders all to the will of Christ, is
 born again and "hath eternal life."
 # 6:54
 The faith that saves is a faith that moves us to come to Christ.
 (PNT 336)
03013
 # Joh 4:1-3
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 4
  \\Jesus at Sychar\\

  At Jacob's Well
  The Woman of Samaria
  The Question of Scared Places
  God to Be Worshipped in Spirit
  The Samaritans Hear the Lord
  Jesus Departs to Galilee
  The Nobleman's Son Healed

    \\When therefore the Lord knew\\, etc. These verses tell why
 Jesus ended his ministry in Judea, for the present, and departed
 into Galilee. The Pharisees were becoming jealous of his
 increasing influence and the time had not come for an open
 conflict.
 (PNT 337)
03016
 # Joh 4:4
    \\He must needs go through Samaria.\\ Because it lay right
 between Judea and Galilee.
 (PNT 337)
03017
 # Joh 4:5
    \\Samaria.\\ The district, embracing the ancient city of
 Samaria, which lay between Judea and Galilee. The district of
 Samaria comprised the country formerly occupied by the tribe of
 Ephraim and the half tribe of Manasseh. When the Ten Tribes were
 carried to Babylon, the Assyrian king sent in other tribes to
 occupy the country. These mingled with the Jews left in the
 country, partly adopted the Jewish worship, but were
 contemptuously rejected by the Jews when the latter returned
 from the Captivity. From this time the enmity between the two
 races was almost bitter, and they had no dealings. See
 # 4:9
    \\Sychar.\\ This place was the ancient Shechem, so famous in
 the early history. It was forty miles north of Jerusalem, and
 was situated between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, the Mounts of
 Blessing and Cursing.
 # Jos 8:30-35
 Here Jacob built his first altar;
 # Ge 33:18
 here Joseph was buried in the land given him by his father;
 # Jos 24:32
 and here also the covenant of Israel was renewed with amens to
 the blessings and curses, after Joshua had conquered Canaan.
 # Jos 24:1
 It was afterwards called Neapolis, and at present a village
 called Nablous exists with a population of two thousand, about
 two hundred of whom are Samaritans and preserve their ancient
 worship.
    \\Near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son
 \\Joseph.\\ In this parcel Joseph was buried when Israel came up
 out of Egypt, his bones having been carried with them in
 accordance with his dying wish. His tomb is still shown and it
 can hardly be doubted that his bones really rest in the place
 pointed out.
 (PNT 337)
03018
 # Joh 4:6
    \\Now Jacob's well was there.\\ It is still seen by the
 traveller, cut through the solid rock, between eight and nine
 feet in diameter, and about seventy-five feet deep, though
 partly filled with rubbish.
    \\Jesus . . . wearied . . . sat thus on the well.\\ The wells
 were usually curbed around with stone and covered. On this curb
 the Saviour sat sheltered from the sun at noon, the sixth hour
 being twelve o'clock.
 (PNT 337)
03019
 # Joh 4:7-8
    \\There cometh a woman of Samaria.\\ A Samaritan woman of the
 city of Sychar. Why she should come so far from the city for
 water is a matter of conjecture.
 (PNT 337)
03021
 # Joh 4:9
    \\How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me?\\ She
 saw by his dress, appearance, and the direction whence he came
 that he was of the Jewish race. The antipathy between the Jews
 and Samaritans was so bitter that they were never wont to ask
 any hospitable right. The woman's reply is not a refusal of the
 Lord's request, but an expression of astonishment that a Jew
 should ask a favour of a Samaritan.
 (PNT 337-338)
03022
 # Joh 4:10
    \\If thou knewest the gift of God\\, etc.  The great gift of
 God is not water, not even peace of soul, but Christ himself,
 God's "unspeakable gift," "God gave his only begotten Son."
 # 2Co 9:15 Joh 3:16
    Had she known, the Saviour declares, "Thou wouldest have asked
 of him, and he would have given thee living water." Observe:
 (1) That Christ asks a favour in order to confer a greater one.
 (2) The well and the water suggest the thirst of the soul and
     the waters of life.
    \\Living water.\\ Water of life. The woman thought he meant
 running water.
 (PNT 338)
03023
 # Joh 4:11
    \\Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with\\, etc.  She was deeply
 impressed by his manner and his words, but she falls to rise
 above the material meaning of his words.
 (PNT 338)
03024
 # Joh 4:12
    \\Art thou greater than our father Jacob?\\ The question
 indicates still further her dawning conviction of the greatness
 of the stranger. It was from Joseph, the son of Jacob, that the
 Samaritans claimed descent. Jesus spoke of giving living water;
 Jacob, their great ancestor, had given this well.
 (PNT 338)
03025
 # Joh 4:13
    \\Whoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.\\ Her
 own experience would confirm his words. Nothing earthly
 satisfies long.
 (PNT 338)
03026
 # Joh 4:14
    \\Whoever drinketh of the water I shall give him shall never
 \\thirst.\\ The water of which he speaks is a gift which he
 gives to humanity. It is not given to him, but is his own gift.
 His language is always that of the Son of God. He says, "I am
 the life";
 # 11:25 14:6
 "Come to me, ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
 you rest";
 # Mt 11:28
 "I am the bread of life";
 # 6:35,48
 "He that believeth on me shall never thirst";
 # 6:35
 (PNT 338)
03027
 # Joh 4:15
    \\Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst.\\ The
 mysterious words of the Jewish stranger she cannot yet
 understand, but she is deeply stirred, and one thing seemed
 plain--if she could have this water she would thirst no more.
 (PNT 338)
03028
 # Joh 4:16
    \\Go, call thy husband, and come here.\\ The woman has asked
 for the water; before she can receive it she must be fully
 conscious of her sinfulness. Hence Jesus makes a demand that
 will recall her past life.
 (PNT 338-339)
03029
 # Joh 4:17
    \\I have no husband.\\ The words have their designed effect.
 She has a man, but not a husband.
 (PNT 339)
03030
 # Joh 4:18
    \\Thou hast had five husbands\\, etc. She had been married
 five times; the easy divorce laws of the age, permitting a
 "divorce for any cause," would allow many changes without the
 death of either party. Some of her husbands may have died; a
 part were almost certainly divorced. Her sixth alliance did not
 have even the apology of such a marriage.
 (PNT 339)
03031
 # Joh 4:19
    \\Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.\\ Every word that
 Jesus had uttered had excited her wonder more and more, and when
 he lifted the curtain off her life, she was convinced at once of
 his superhuman knowledge.
 (PNT 339)
03032
 # Joh 4:20
    \\Our fathers worshipped in this mountain\\, etc.  Partly to
 turn attention from her sinful life, and partly to have him
 settle a great controversy, she appeals to him to say where men
 ought to worship God. The Jews went up to Jerusalem to the
 temple. The Samaritans built their temples on "this mountain,"
 Mt. Gerizim. Note that the woman worshipped there because "our
 fathers" did. The "fathers" were wrong. Many now keep up infant
 sprinkling and other corruptions because their "fathers"
 practised them.
 (PNT 339)
03033
 # Joh 4:21
    \\Neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem.\\ Now comes
 the announcement of one of the grandest truths revealed by
 Christ, that the place is immaterial, that true, spiritual
 worship is essential.
 (PNT 339)
03034
 # Joh 4:22
    \\Salvation is from the Jews.\\ In the controversy between
 the Jews and Samaritans, the former was right on the great
 issue. The Samaritans worshipped, but knew not what they
 worshipped, because they rejected the prophets who would have
 directed them.
 (PNT 339)
03035
 # Joh 4:23
    \\The hour cometh\\, etc. The time is at hand, says the Lord,
 when a worship of forms, or at holy places, will not meet the
 demands of the Father. He must be worshipped with the heart, in
 spirit and in truth. Spiritual worship can be offered in any
 land, wherever the soul can humble itself before God.
 (PNT 339)
03036
 # Joh 4:24
    \\God [is] a Spirit.\\ Rather, "God is Spirit." This
 declaration is fundamental. Since he is Spirit, he must receive
 spiritual worship, and is everywhere present.
 (PNT 339)
03037
 # Joh 4:25-26
    \\I know that Messias cometh.\\ Her heart had been made
 lighter with the great hope of the world. The words of Jesus
 Christ carried her thoughts to that hope. He had told her much;
 the Messiah would tell her all things, and give light on every
 dark question. She perhaps began to suspect that Jesus was the
 Messiah. The admission that Jesus makes, "I am he," is the first
 recorded.
 (PNT 339-340)
03039
 # Joh 4:27
    \\His disciples . . . marvelled that he talked with the
 \\woman.\\ His disciples had left him alone at the well, while
 they went to the village of Sychar to buy food. They wondered
 that he should talk with a woman, and especially with a
 Samaritan woman. It was considered by the Jews indecorous to
 talk with a woman in public, and the rabbis held that to talk
 with such an inferior creature was beneath the dignity of a
 doctor of the law. This illustrates the state from which woman
 has been lifted by the Gospel.
 (PNT 340)
03041
 # Joh 4:29
    \\A man, who hath told me all things that ever I did.\\ He
 told her some things about her own life, and conscience had told
 her more. She felt that all was known to him, and naturally
 exaggerates by saying, "He told me all my life."
 (PNT 340)
03044
 # Joh 4:32
    \\I have food to eat that ye know not of.\\ "Man shall not
 live by bread alone."
 # De 8:3 Mt 4:4 Lu 4:4
 The Lord who could go forty days in the wilderness without food,
 in the exaltation of the soul caused by his baptism and the
 descent of the Holy Spirit, would forget the hunger of the body
 also, when he was pouring out the water of life to a poor,
 thirsty soul.
 (PNT 340)
03045
 # Joh 4:33
    \\Hath any man brought him [anything] to eat?\\ They cannot
 think of spiritual food, heavenly manna, bread of life. Yet,
 long before, the prophet had spoken of this food and had said,
 "Ye that have no money, come, buy bread, and eat."
 # Isa 55:1
 (PNT 340)
03046
 # Joh 4:34
    \\My food is to do the will of him that sent me.\\ The Saviour
 declares that to do the will of God is food to him. It is
 enjoyment and strength. It does not weary, but refreshes.
 (PNT 340)
03047
 # Joh 4:35
    \\There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest.\\
 Harvest began about the middle of April in Palestine. The time
 when the Saviour spoke would then be about the middle of
 December. But the harvest of souls was ripe already.
    \\Lift up your eyes.\\ No doubt he pointed to the Samaritans
 now flocking out to see him. See
 # 4:39
 (PNT 340)
03048
 # Joh 4:36
    \\He that reapeth receiveth wages.\\ The figure is kept up.
 The reaper in the harvest fields receives wages, and so shall
 those who reap the harvest of souls; not earthly pay in money,
 or fame, or position, but the happiness of doing the noblest
 work, and beyond, the crown of life shining with stars.
 (PNT 341)
03049
 # Joh 4:37
    \\One soweth, and another reapeth.\\ This was a common
 proverb, growing out of constant human experience, true of
 worldly and spiritual things. How often has the patient pastor
 sowed, and then the evangelist has reaped in a meeting the
 results!
 (PNT 341)