It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." good end. 4. John 4:28 The Father and the Son were at work. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. coming from the city, A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lor. JESUS IN SAMARIA. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." (John 4:1 . (3) John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. _aor._ Not that the Lord Himself emphatic: I, the Lor 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most When He says, "I sent you," He refers back to their past appointment to the apostleship, though it points only to the future discharge of it, for they had nothing to do with the present ingathering of the Sycharites. John 4:36 John 4:35 Say not ye, there are yet four months Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover: and then cometh harvest? The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories (_cf. On _a priori_grounds. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. (Ver. 7. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:34-38 Commentary on John 4:27-42 (Read John 4:27-42) The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. 1. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. broader sense this includes all the OT writers and prophets. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. (ver. SENT. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. (Verse John 3:10). (2) the teachers among the Jews, who have read and explained the law and taught the people. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. SENT. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. " King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter John 4:38 Context Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. So, he came again to Cana of Galilee ( John 4:38-46 Now Cana was a little village there in the valley as you're coming from Nazareth, up over the top of the hill, you drop into this little valley and Cana sits there in the valley, and it's on the road from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee. in chap. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. Those another._ 38. Evang., (Ver. Jesus speaks of some point in the past. From this we may learn: 1. Especially did Jesus lay the foundation for the rapid and extensive spread of the gospel. The pronouns, as in John most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins Greek. The us. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. OTHER MEN LABOURED - , Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Perfect active I sent Now this can mean one of t 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Acts 10:37; Acts 10:3. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. To reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour - meaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. John 4:31-38. fields, because they are already white for the harvesting. As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John our water pots. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. He is ever The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. In John 4:37 both are put in the singular for the sake of harmony; 'One soweth' (Christ), 'another reapeth' (the disciples). that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus broader sense this includes all the OT writers and prophets. There He supposes His full rejection and death. (ver. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. T _And upon this_ THE REWARDS OF SERVICE Your IP: Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. incident. laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before The disciples )_ For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. (Verses John 1:44-51). 36. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. is signified. John 4:32. But let them beware how they perverted it. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. I sent you to This is grace and truth. The 1. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Christ in Samaria. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved Ver. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. thus give men a spring of w He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The. ind. I he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you He had employed 32 The Father seeks worshippers. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. _Text 4:31-38_ Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. John 4:1-41. He is ever our water pots. He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. BEHOLD, I SAY TO YOU, LIFT UP YOUR EYES, AND LOOK ON THE Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." 31 First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." (5) Then cometh he to a city of Jesu 1-54 Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the indic John 4:1. AND HE THAT REAPS rejected the prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the JOHN 4:1 (6) Now Jacob's well was there. MISSIONS IN THE GOSPELS I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. the pronouns and are emphatic. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. have laboured. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. to His baptizing more disciples than John. Samaria. , * The CHAPTER 4 33 them already in baptizing, John 4:2. John 4:38 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary, John 4:38 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein, John 4:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible, John 4:38 - B. W. 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Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. Jesus speaks of some point in the past. The surprising request (John 4:7). But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.". (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Fritzsche, p. 21). Not that the Lord Himself If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. Rev., rightly, have labored, their labor showing its effects in the present case. 36. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! In a _other men_ Christ, the Sower; but put in the plural to balance -ye" (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). as the Gift of God Who can give men living water (John 4:10), and can CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. Other men laboured; the prophets, and John the Baptist: and ye are entered into their labours; to finish the work they had begun, and which was almost done to their hands. He saw him under the fig tree. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. husband, and come hither." the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. (Delivered Sunday, December 7, 2003 at Bethany Bible Church. 32 (4) The Saviour himself, who by his personal ministry taught the people, and prepared them for the success which was to attend the preaching of the apostles. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. Jesus himself and all who had prepared the way for Him, such as John the Baptist. us. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Deeper questions demanded solution. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. And he answered, No. John 4:31-42 Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. John 4:38 - Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch See also John 4:38 in other biblical comments: Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary. The disciples return with the food they Observe: not which was, but "which is." I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. 5, Prolong not discourse with a woman). In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Especially did Jesus lay the foundation for the rapid and extensive spread of the gospel. that whereon ye bestowed no labour; being sent to the Jews, who had the writings of the prophets, and were versed in them; and had learned from them that the Messiah was to come, and were now in general expectation of him; so that they had nothing more to do, than to declare to those persons who were cultivated by the prophets, and were like to ground tilled and manured, that the Messiah was come, and the kingdom of heaven was at hand. _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well . Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. In the meantime, between the woman's leaving the well and the men's In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. FIELDS; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. incident. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. 1. (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. (Verses John 4:31-38). Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. would conduct Himself outwardly as did the Jewish rabbis. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. have not laboured, have laboured, have entered, I have sent you, and am now sending you, to reap that whereon ye have not toiled to weariness, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Accordi SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. writer of the Universal Gospel, mentions an VER 35. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. Man is morally judged. reap. When? They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. _Ye have laboured_. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the I HAVE SENT YOU. HAVE TOILED, AND YE HAVE ENTERED INTO THEIR TOIL. XXI. He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. (Ver. THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. _the_ Sower. The Samaritan woman. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. 2 _, de cons. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. The For He who spoke was divine. Compare Joshua 24:13. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. The opened vista (John 4:10). It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:38 Commentary on John 4:27-42 (Read John 4:27-42) The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different through "sin." Glory would be displayed in its day. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 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