$27. OUR LORD GOES INTO GALILEE. (No. 18.) PASSING THROUGH SAMARIA. DISCOURSE WITH THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA AT JACOB'S WELL. MANY SAMARITANS

BELIEVE.

Shechem. (No. 17.) (Going North.)

Matt. 4:12.

Mark 1:14a. Luke 4:14a. John 4:1-42.

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'WHEN therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and "baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), and ['Now when he] heard ['Now after] that John was delivered up, he 'withdrew, 'and 'left Judæa, and [Jesus] returned in the power of the Spirit [Jesus came] [and departed again] into "Galilee. And he must needs pass through Samaria. So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground 'that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: and Jacob's well [Marg., Gr. "spring"] was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the "sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples. were gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, asketh drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the

a John 3:22, 26 (§ 25).

b Luke 3:19, 20 (§ 26).

c Luke 4:1 (8 18), “And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness,

devil."

tempted of the

ee [Probably about six P.M. See note on i John 19:14 (8 150).]

f 2 Kings 17:24, etc. Luke 9:51, 52, 53 (8 76). Acts 10:24, 28, "Peter said,.. Ye yourselves know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and yet unto me hath God shewed that I should not call any man common or un clean."

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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. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but 'whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him 'shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in "this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour

g Isa. 12:3, "With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." 44:3. Jer. 2:13, "my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them cut cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Zach. 13:1 and 14:8, "Living waters shall go out from Jerusalem." Rev. 22:17, "He that is athirst, let him come: he that will let him take the water of life freely."

h John 6:34, 35, 58 (8 63), "Jesus said, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."

i John 7:37, 38 (§ 81), "Jesus stood and cried saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink; he that believeth on me, as the Scriptures hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living waters."

k See John 6:34 on h above; 17:2, 3 (§ 137). God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 1 Luke 7:16 (8 46), “And they glorified God, arisen among us." 24:19 (§ 167) John 6:14 (861). m Judg. 9:7, Mount Gerizim."

n Deut. 12:5, 10. 1 Kings 9:1, 3. 2 Chro. 7:12.

Rom. 6:23, "The free gift of 1 John 5:20.

saying, A great prophet is John 7:40 (8 81).

cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. Ye worship that which "ye know not: we worship that which we know: for 'salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father 'in spirit and in 'truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. God is 'a spirit [Marg., or, "God is spirit"]: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

'And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her? So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ? They went out of the city, and were coming to him. In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man

o Mal. 1:11," From the rising of the sun, even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles: and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering." 1 Tim. 2:8.

p 2 Kings 17:29. See on ƒ above.

q Isa. 2:3. Luke 24:46, 47, (§ 172b). Rom. 9:4, 5, "who are Israelites: whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God and the promises whose are the Fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh."

r Phil. 3:3.

8 John 1:17 (8 1), “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."

t 2 Cor. 3:6, 17, " For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. . . . Now the Lord is the Spirit."

v John 9:35 (§ 84) [To the blind man], "Jesus . .

He answered and said,

said, Dost thou believe

Who is he, Lord, that I

on the Son of God? may believe on him? Jesus said, . . . Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that speaketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him." Matt. 23:63 (§ 143), “The high priest said, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said."

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brought him aught to eat? Jesus saith unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are "white already unto harvest. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. For herein is the saying true, One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

'And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his word; and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for 'we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

$28. JESUS TEACHES PUBLICLY IN GALILEE. (No. 18.) (Going North.)

Matt. 4:12a,17. Mark 1:146,15.

Luke 4:14b,15. John 4:43-45.

('AND after the two days 'when he had 'heard that John was delivered up, 'Jesus returned in the "power of the Spirit ['he went forth from thence] into 'Galilee.)

w Job 23:12. John 6:38 (§ 63); 17:4 (§ 137); 19:30 (§ 155).

x Matt. 9:37 (8 59), "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send forth labourers into his harvest." Luke 10:2 (8 78) [the same to the seventy].

y Dan. 12:3, "They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."

z John 17:5, 8 (§ 137). 1 John 4:14, "we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."

"For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. So when he came into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also 'went unto the feast.

'From that time began Jesus 'to preach ['preaching] 'the gospel of God, 'and to say, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. [And saying.] The time is fulfilled, and "the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel. And a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

$29. JESUS AGAIN AT CANA, WHERE HE HEALS THE NOBLEMAN'S SON LYING ILL AT CAPERNAUM.

Cana of Galilee. (No. 19.) (Going Southwest.)

John 4:46-54.

HE came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, "where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman [Marg., or, “king's officer"] whose son was sick at CaperWhen he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the

naum.

c See § 30 and § 58 [his rejections at Nazareth].

d John 2:23 (823), “When he was in Jerusalem at the passover, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he did." 3:1, 2 (§ 24). e Deut. 16:16, "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of the tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty."

f Matt. 4:23 (§ 35).

g Dan. 9:25, "From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks." Gal. 4:4. Eph. 1:10.

h Matt. 3:2 (§ 16) [John the Baptist said], "Repent, ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

a John 2:1, 11 (§ 22) [Jesus turned the water into wine], "This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee."