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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:32

I have meat to eat - See John 4:34. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:33

Hath any man brought him ... - This is one of the many instances in which the disciples were slow to understand the Saviour. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:34

My meat ... - Jesus here explains what he said in John 4:32. His great object - the great design of his life - was to do the will of God. He came to that place weary and thirsty, and at the usual time of meals, probably hungry; yet an opportunity of doing good presented itself, and he forgot his fatigue and hunger, and found comfort and joy in doing good - in seeking to save a soul. This one great object absorbed all his powers, and made him forget his weariness and the wants of nature. The... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:35

Say not ye - This seems to have been a proverb. Ye say - that is, men say.Four months and ... - The common time from sowing the seed to the harvest, in Judea, was about “four months.” The meaning of this passage may be thus expressed: “The husbandman, when he sows his seed, is compelled to wait a considerable period before it produces a crop. He is encouraged in sowing it; he expects fruit; his labor is lightened by that expectation; but it is not “immediate” - it is remote. But it is not so... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:36

He that reapeth - He that gathers the harvest, or he who so preaches that souls are converted to Christ.Receiveth wages - The laborer in the harvest receives his hire. Jesus says it shall be thus with those who labor in the ministry - he will not suffer them to go unrewarded. See Daniel 12:3; Matthew 19:28.Gathereth fruit unto life eternal - Converts souls, who shall inherit eternal life. The harvest is not temporary, like gathering grain, but shall result in eternal life.That both he that... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:37

That saying - That proverb. This proverb is found in some of the Greek writers (Grotius). Similar proverbs were in use among the Jews. See Isaiah 65:21-22; Leviticus 26:16; Micah 6:15.One soweth ... - One man may preach the gospel, and with little apparent effect; another, succeeding him, may be crowned with eminent success. The seed, long buried, may spring up in an abundant harvest. read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 4:38

I sent you - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in.Other men laboured - The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. (2)The teachers among the Jews, who have read and explained the law and taught the people.John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. And, The Saviour himself, who by his personal ministry taught the people, and prepared them... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 4:23

John 4:23. But the hour cometh and now is The fixed and stated time, concerning which it was of old determined when it should come, even the accepted time and day of salvation. And when our Lord thus spoke, it was coming in its full strength, lustre, and perfection. As if he had said, The thing you are chiefly concerned to know is, that a dispensation of religion is now beginning, under which all languages, countries, and places being sanctified, men are to worship God, not in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 4:24

John 4:24. God is a Spirit. &c. “As a further answer to the woman’s question, our Lord delivered a doctrine which may justly be called his own, as it exhibits an idea of God, and of the worship which is due to him, far more sublime than the best things said by the philosophers on that subject.” Christ came to declare God to us, and this he has declared concerning him, that he is a Spirit, and he declared it to this poor Samaritan woman, for the meanest are concerned to know God; and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 4:25-26

John 4:25-26. The woman saith, I know that Messias cometh She probably meant from among the Jews. The Jews and Samaritans, though so much at variance in other things, agreed in the expectation of the Messiah and his kingdom. This the Samaritans probably grounded on the writings of Moses, which, as has been observed, they received as of divine authority. It was also, doubtless, strengthened by the slight acquaintance which they had with the writings of the prophets, and by the hopes which... read more

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