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1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,
1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John
1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
1 Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism
And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
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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,