15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
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Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. …
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-26)We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion , were mongrel Jews , the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themsel…
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