Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 4:28-30
John 4:28-30. The woman then Seeing other company coming up to interrupt the discourse, immediately left her water-pot Or pail, behind her, forgetting smaller things, while her thoughts were engrossed with matters of the greatest importance; and went her way with all haste into the city Where she published the news in the streets, and said to all she met with, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did Even the most secret circumstances of my past life. Our Lord had... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:29
Is not this the Christ? - Though she probably believed it, yet she proposed it modestly, lest she should appear to dictate in a case which was so important, and which demanded so much attention. The evidence on which she was satisfied that he was the Messiah was that he had told her all things that she had done - perhaps much more than is here recorded. The question which she submitted to them was whether this was not satisfactory proof that he was the Messiah. read more