John 4:39 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

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ASV

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.

KJV

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, ... - There is seldom an instance of so remarkable success as this. From a single conversation, in circumstances, in a place, and with an individual little likely to be attended with such results, many sinners were converted; many believed on the testimony of the woman; many more came to hear, and believed because they heard him themselves. We should never despair of doing good in the most unpromising circumstances, and we should seize upon every opportunity to converse with sinners on the great subject of their souls’ salvation.

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J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

We have, for one thing, in these verses, an instructive pattern of zeal for the good of others. We read, that our Lord Jesus Christ declares, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work." To do good was not merely duty and pleasure to Him. He counted it as His food and drink. Job, one of the holiest Old Testament saints, could say, that he esteemed God's word "more than his necessary food." (Job 23:12.) The Great Head of the New Testament Church went even further.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

These Samaritans were the foundation of the Church afterwards built up there. No miracle appears to have been wrought there (but unparalleled supernatural knowledge displayed): "we have heard Him ourselves" (Joh 4:42) sufficed to raise their faith to a point never attained by the Jews, and hardly as yet by the disciples--that He was "the Saviour of the world" [ALFORD].

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐκ	ek	Out of	G1537 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
πόλεως	poleōs	city	G4172 →
ἐκείνης	ekeinēs	that	G1565 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
ἐπίστευσαν	episteusan	believed	G4100 →
εἰς	eis	in	G1519 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
Σαμαριτῶν	Samaritōn	Samaritans	G4541 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
λόγον	logon	word	G3056 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
γυναικὸς	gunaikos	woman	G1135 →
μαρτυρούσης	marturousēs	testifying	G3140 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
εἶπέν	eipen	He told	G2036 →
μοι	moi	me	G3165 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
ἃ	ha	whatever	G3739 →
ἐποίησα.	epoiēsa	I did.	G4160 →

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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
John 4:42
They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
leads to
- 1 John 4:14
  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
- 1 John 5:20
  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son…
- John 1:29
  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 Timothy 4:10
  To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
- Acts 4:12
  Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Through
John 4:5
So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
leads to
- Joshua 24:32
  And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…
- Genesis 33:19
  And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 48:22
  And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

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Where the connections lead

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About John