Say not ye? (Ουχ υμεις λεγετε; ). It is not possible to tell whether Jesus is alluding to a rural proverb of which nothing is know…

Say not ye. This seems to have been a proverb. You say—that is, people say.

Four months and, etc. The common time from sow…

Say not ye, There are yet four months. (John 4:35).—The emphasis in this verse should be placed on “ye.” It f…

And saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and ca…

St. John Chrysostom: He now goes on to explain what the will of the Father is: “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months…

“Four months more and then the harvest” is probably a quotation of a current proverb. Having once sowed the grain, all the farmer needed to do was …

Do you not say? He develops the preceding statement; for, having said that nothing was more dear to him than to finish the work o…

Say not you, there are yet four months
Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last pa…

The disciples wondered that Christ talked so with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason and for some good end. So, when particular…

1. Since the disciples were slow to understand the Lord’s figure of speech, the Lord now explains it.

   First, we have its explanation,…