John 4:29 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:29

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?

KJV

Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Come, see a man,.... An uncommon, an extraordinary man, a prophet, and, who himself says, he is the Messiah, who is now at Jacob's well; come, go along with me, and see him and converse with him, and judge for yourselves, who, and what he is: she does not say, "go and see"; for she proposed to go along with them herself, that she might have more conversation with him, and knowledge of him, and grace from him: so such that have tasted that the Lord is gracious, desire more grace from him, and communion with him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

A man who told me all things that ever I did - Our Lord had told her but a few things. But his words awakened her conscience, which soon told her all the rest. Is not this the Christ? - She does not doubt of it herself, but incites them to make the inquiry.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Is not this the Christ? - Though she probably believed it, yet she proposed it modestly, lest she should appear to dictate in a case which was so important, and which demanded so much attention. The evidence on which she was satisfied that he was the Messiah was that he had told her all things that she had done - perhaps much more than is here recorded. The question which she submitted to them was whether this was not satisfactory proof that he was the Messiah.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1678: “The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1882)

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δεῦτε,	deute	Come,	G1205 →
ἴδετε	idete	do see	G1492 →
ἄνθρωπον	anthrōpon	a man	G444 →
ὃς	hos	who	G3739 →
εἶπέν	eipen	told	G2036 →
μοι	moi	me	G3165 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
ὅσα	hosa	as much as	G3745 →
ἐποίησα·	epoiēsa	I did;	G4160 →
μήτι	mēti	surely not ever	G3385 →
οὗτός	houtos	this	G3778 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
χριστός;	christos	Christ?	G5547 →

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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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
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
leads to
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Revelation 21:6
  And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
- Isaiah 55:1–3
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Isaiah 12:3
  With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
Through
John 4:25
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
leads to
- John 1:49
  “Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
- Daniel 9:24–26
  Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up…
- Matthew 1:16
  and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

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