I that speak unto thee am he (Εγω ειμ ο λαλων σο). "I am he, the one speaking to thee." In plain language Jesus now declares that …

I that speak to you am he. I am the Messiah. This was the first time that he openly professed it. He had not yet done so to the Jews, beca…

I that speak unto thee.—The announcement is being made. The solution of some of the problems which she connects with the …

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, …

This is the one occasion when Jesus voluntarily declared his messiahship. In the Synoptic Gospels, normally he did not make such a public claim; on…

It is I who talk with you. When he acknowledges to the woman that he is the Messiah, he unquestionably presents himself as her Teacher, in…

Jesus says to her
Upon her making mention of the Messiah, of his coming, and of his work, he took the opportunity of…

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…