38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. …
That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; …
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-42)We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman. I. The interruption given to this discourse by the disciples’ coming. It is probable that much more was said than is recorded; but just when the discourse was brought to a head, when Christ had made himself known to her as the true Messiah, then came the disciples .…
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