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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 4
6 Jesus being weary, asketh drink
of the woman of Samaria.
21 He teacheth true worship.
26 He confesseth that he is the Messiah.
32 His meat.
39 The Samaritans believe in him.
46 He healeth the Ruler's son.
1 Now (1) when the Lord knew, how
the Pharisees had heard, that Jesus
made (*) and baptized more disciples
than John,
(1) This measure is to be kept in doing
our duty, that neither by fear we be
terrified from going forward, neither by
rashness procure or pluck dangers upon
our heads.
(*) John 3:22 .
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not,
but his disciples.)
3 He (*) left Judea, and departed again
into Galilee.
(*) To give place to their rage.
4 And he must needs go through
Samaria.
5 (2) Then came he to a city of Samaria
called () Sychar, near unto the possession
that (*) Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
(2) Christ leaving the proud Pharisees,
communicateth the treasures of everlasting
life with a poor sinful woman, and stranger,
reselling the gross errors of the Samaritans,
and defending the true service of God,
which was delivered to the Jews, but yet
so, that he calleth both of them back to
himself as one whom only all the fathers,
and also all the ceremonies of the Law
did regard, and had a respect unto.
() Or, Sichema.
(*) Genesis 33:19; Genesis 48:22;
Joshua 24:32 .
6 And there was Jacob's well.
Jesus then wearied in the journey,
sat (a) thus on the well; it was about
the (b) sixth hour.
(a) Even as he was weary, or because
he was weary.
(b) It was almost noon.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to
draw water.
Jesus said unto her, Give me drink.
8 For his disciples were gone away into
the city, to buy meat.
9 Then said the woman of Samaria unto
him, How is it, that thou being a Jew,
askest drink of me, which am a woman
of (*) Samaria?
For the Jews (c) meddle not with the
Samaritans.
(*) For the Jews esteemed the Samaritans
as wicked and profane.
(c) There is no familiarity nor friendship,
between the Jews and the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest (d) that (*) gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me
drink, thou wouldest have asked of him,
and he would have given thee
(e) () () water of life.
(d) By this word (That) we are given to
understand, that Christ speaketh of some
excellent gift, that is to say, even of
himself, whom his Father offered to this
woman.
(*) Meaning of himself whom his Father
had sent to convert this woman.
(e) This everlasting water, that is to say,
the exceeding love of God, is called living,
or of life, to make a difference between it,
and the water that should be drawn out
of a well, and these metaphors are very
much used by the Jews,
Jeremiah 2:13,
Joel 3:18, Zechariah 13:11 .
() Which is the love of God in his Son
poured into our hearts by the holy Ghost
unto everlasting life,
Romans 5:5; 1 John 3:5 .
() Or, the lively water.
11 The woman said unto him, Sir, thou
hast nothing to draw with, and the well
is deep; from whence then hast thou that
water of life?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob,
which gave us the well, and he himself
drank thereof, and his sons, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered, and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall
thirst again;
14 But whosoever drinketh of the
(*) water that I shall give him, shall never
be more () athirst; but the water that I shall
give him, shall be in him a well of water,
springing up into everlasting life.
(*) Of the spiritual grace.
() He shall never be dried up or destitute.
15 The woman said unto him, Sir, give
me of that water, that I may not thirst,
neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus said unto her, Go, call thy
husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered, and said, I
have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said,
I have no husband.
18 For thou hast had five husbands, and
he whom thou now hast, is not thy
husband; that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman said unto him, Sir,
I (*) see that thou art a Prophet.
(*) Till she was lively touched with her
faults, she mocked and would not hear
Christ.
20 (3) Our fathers worshipped in
this (f) mountain, and ye say, that
in (*) Jerusalem is the place where men
ought to worship.
(3) All the religion of superstitious people,
standeth for the most part, upon two pillars,
but very weak, that is to say upon the
examples of the fathers perverted, and a
foolish opinion of outward things; against
which errors we have to set the word and
nature of God.
(f) The name of this mountain is Gerizim,
where upon Sanabaletta the Cuthite built
a Temple by Alexander of Macedonia his
leave, after the victory of Issica: and made
there Manassas his son in law, high Priest,
Josephus book 11 .
(*) Deuteronomy 12:6 .
21 Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither
in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem worship
the Father.
22 Ye worship that which ye (*) know
not; we worship that which we know, for
salvation is of the Jews.
(*) 2 Kings 17:23 .
23 But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in (g) Spirit and Truth; for the
Father requireth even such to worship
him.
(g) This word (Spirit) is to be taken here,
as it is set against that commandment, which
is called carnal,
Hebrews 7:16;
as the commandment is considered in itself;
and so he speaketh of (Truth) not as we
set it against a lie, but as we take it in respect
of the outward ceremonies of the Law,
which did only shadow that which Christ
performed indeed.
24 (*) God is a (h) () Spirit, and they
that worship him, must worship him in
Spirit and Truth.
(*) 2 Corinthians 3:17 .
(h) By the word (Spirit) he meaneth the
nature of the Godhead, and not the third
person in the Trinity.
() God being of a spiritual nature, requireth
a spiritual service, and agreeable to his nature.
25 The woman said unto him, I know well
that Messiah shall come, which is called Christ;
when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus said unto her, I am he, that
speak unto thee.
27 ¶ And upon that, came his disciples,
and marveled that he talked with a woman,
yet no man said unto him, What askest thou?
Or why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot,
and went her way into the city, and said
to the men,
29 Come, see a man which hath told me
all things that ever I did; is not he the
Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and
came unto him.
31 ¶ In the meanwhile, the disciples prayed
him, saying, Master, eat.
32 (4) But he said unto them, I have meat
to eat, that ye know not of.
(4) We may have care of our bodies, but
yet so, that we prefer willingly and freely
the occasion which is offered us to enlarge
the kingdom of God, before all necessities
of this life, whatsoever.
33 Then said the disciples between
themselves, Hath any man brought him
meat?
34 Jesus said unto them, (*) My meat is
that I may do the will of him that sent me,
and finish his work.
(*) There is nothing that I hunger for more,
or wherein I take greater pleasure.
35 (5) Say not ye, There are yet four
months, and then cometh harvest?
Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes,
and look on the regions, (*) for they are
white already unto harvest.
(5) When the spiritual corn is ripe, we
must not linger; for so the children of this
world would condemn us.
(*) Matthew 9:37; Luke 10:2 .
36 (6) And he that reapeth, receiveth wages,
and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that
both he that soweth, and he that reapeth
might (*) rejoice together.
(6) The doctrine of the Prophets was as
it were a sowing time; and the doctrine
of the Gospel, as the harvest, and there
is an excellent agreement between them
both, and the ministers of them both.
(*) Without grudging the one at the others
labor.
37 For herein is the (i) (*) saying true,
that one soweth and another reapeth.
(i) That proverb.
(*) Or, proverb.
38 I sent you to reap that, whereon ye
bestowed no labor; (*) other men labored,
and ye are entered into their labors.
(*) Meaning, the Prophets.
39 (7) Now many of the Samaritans of
that city (*) believed in him, for the saying
of the woman which testified, He hath
told me all things that ever I did.
(7) The Samaritans do most joyfully
embrace that which the Jews most
stubbornly rejected.
(*) The Samaritans shewed themselves
willing to receive his doctrine who being
but strangers and scarcely knowing Christ,
are a condemnation to the Jews, and all
others, which neglect God's word when
it is offered.
40 Then when the Samaritans were come
unto him, they besought him, that he
would tarry with them; and he abode there
two days.
41 And many more (*) believed because
of his own word.
(*) That is, had the right and true faith.
42 And they said unto the woman, Now
we believe, not because of thy saying,
for we have heard him ourselves, and
know that this is indeed that Christ the
Saviour of the world.
43 ¶ (8) So two days after he departed
thence, and went into (k) Galilee.
(8) The despisers of Christ deprive
themselves of his benefit; yet Christ
prepareth a place for himself.
(k) Into the towns and villages of Galilee;
for he would not make abode in his country
of Nazareth, because they despised him,
and where (as the other Evangelists write)
the efficacy of his benefits was hindered
through their marvelous stiffneckedness.
44 For Jesus himself had (*) testified,
that a Prophet hath no honor in () his own
country.
(*) Matthew 13:57; Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24 .
() Hereby his own country he meaneth
Jerusalem and the country about.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee,
the Galileans received him, which had
seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem
at the feast; for they went also unto the feast.
46 (9) And Jesus came again
into (*) Cana a town of Galilee, where he
had made of water wine.
And there was a certain (l) () ruler, whose
son was sick at Capernaum.
(9) Although Christ be absent in body,
yet he worketh mightily in the believers
by his word.
(*) John 2:1 .
(l) Some of Herod's courtiers, for though
Herod was not a king, but a Tetrarch,
yet the lofty name only except, he was
a king, or at least the people called him
a king.
() The word signifieth royal or one of the
King's court; and it seemeth that he was
one of Herod's court, who was in great
estimation with Herod, whom the people
called King,
Mark 6:14 .
47 When he heard that Jesus was come
out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto
him, and besought him that he
would (*) go down, and heal his son;
for he was even ready to die.
(*) Or, come.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye
see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The ruler said unto him, Sir, go down
before my son dies.
50 Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy
son liveth.
And the man believed the word that Jesus
had spoken unto him, and went his way.
51 And as he was now (*) going down,
his servants met him, saying, Thy son
liveth.
(*) Or, returning.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour
when he began to amend.
And they said unto him, Yesterday the
seventh hour the fever left him.
53 Then the father knew that it was the
same hour in the which Jesus had said
unto him, Thy son liveth.
And he believed, and all his household.
54 This second miracle did Jesus again,
after he was come out of Judea into
Galilee.
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