Messiah cometh (Μεσσιας ερχετα). Hebrew word in N.T. only here and 1:41 and explained by Χριστος in both places. The Samaritans lo…

I know that Messias cometh. As the Samaritans acknowledged the five books of Moses, so they expected, also, the coming of the Messiah.

I know that Me ias cometh.—She is puzzled by these new doctrines. “Father!” “Spirit!” what did all this mean? Was God in …

You worship what you do not know: we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true wors…

St. John Chrysostom: The woman was astonished by the loftiness of His teaching, as her words show: The woman said to Him, …

Mystified by Jesus’ words, the woman finally confessed her ignorance and at the same time expressed her longing for the Messiah. It was the one neb…

The Messiah is about to come. Although religion among the Samaritans was corrupted and mixed up with many errors, yet some principles take…

The woman says to him
Not knowing well what to say to these things Christ has been discoursing about, as the place, …

There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places o…

1. At Jesus answered and said to her, the Evangelist gives us Christ’s spiritual teaching.

   First, he gives the teaching itse…