John 4:19 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:19

“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

KJV

The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2 (444)

With difficulty does she brighten up to apprehension, and that again not yet perfect. For she still calls the Lord of Prophets a Prophet. But she has by degrees shown herself better than before, in no way ashamed at reproof, seizing to her own profit the force of the sign and so going forth from her effeminate understanding, attaining to some extent to a vigorous mind, and stretching forth the eye of her heart to an unwonted view of things.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was agreed between the Jews and the Samaritans that God is to be worshipped (even those who were such fools as to worship false gods were not such brutes as to worship none), and that religious worship is an affair of great importance: men would not contend about it if they were not concerned about it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A prophet - One sent from God, and who understood her life. The word here does not denote one who foretells future events, but one who knew her heart and life, and who must therefore have come from God. She did not yet suppose him to be the Messiah, Joh 4:25. Believing him now to be a man sent from God, she proposed to him a question respecting the proper place of worship. This point had been long a matter of dispute between the Samaritans and the Jews.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Λέγει	Legei	Says	G3004 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γυνή·	gunē	woman;	G1135 →
κύριε,	kurie	Sir,	G2962 →
θεωρῶ	theōrō	I understand	G2334 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
προφήτης	prophētēs	a prophet	G4396 →
εἶ	ei	are	G1510 →
σύ.	su	You yourself.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 6:14
When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
leads to
- Matthew 21:11
  The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 18:15–18
  The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- Acts 7:37
  This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
- Matthew 11:3
  to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
- Acts 3:22–24
  For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
Through
Luke 7:39
When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she…
leads to
- Luke 7:16
  A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
- Luke 15:2
  So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Through
Luke 7:16
A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
leads to
- Matthew 9:8
  When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John