48 Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;
Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed: blessed they who have not seen and have believed.
It hath seemed good unto me to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.
The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought among you in all endurance, signs, and wonders, and works of power.
They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
And fear was upon every soul, and many wonders and signs took place through the apostles' means.
And more a great deal believed on account of his word; and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?
whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.
And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and great signs among the people.
And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,
And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.
And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.
He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
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Chapter 4
It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel's land (Isa. 8:8), not only the place of his birth, but the scene of his preaching and miracles. This land in our Saviour's time was divided into three parts: Judea in the south, Galilee in the north, and Samaria lying between them. Now, in this chapter, we have Christ in each of these three parts of that land.
Jhn 4:1-3
We read of Christ's coming into Judea (ch. 3:22), after he had kept the feast at Jerusalem; and now he left Judea four months before harvest, as is said here (v. 35); so that it is computed that he staid in Judea about six months, to build upon the foundation John had laid there. We have no particular account of his sermons and miracles there, only in general, v. 1.
Jhn 4:4-26
We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themselves. They worshipped the God of Israel only, to whom they erected a temple on mount Gerizim, in competition with that at Jerusalem. There was great enmity between them and the Jews; the Samaritans would not admit Christ, when they saw he was going to Jerusalem (Lu. 9:53); the Jews thought they could not give him a worse name than to say, He is a Samaritan. When the Jews were in prosperity, the Samaritans claimed kindred to them (Ezra 4:2), but, when the Jews were in distress, they were Medes and Persians; see Joseph. Antiq. 11.340-341; 12.257. Now observe,
Observe,
Jhn 4:27-42
We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman.
Jhn 4:43-54
In these verses we have,
Observe,