Albert Barnes Commentary John 4:29

"Come, see a man, who told me all things that [ever] I did: can this be the Christ?" — John 4:29 (ASV)

Is not this the Christ? Though she probably believed it, yet she proposed it modestly, so that she would not appear to dictate in a case which was so important, and which demanded so much attention. The evidence by which she was satisfied that he was the Messiah was that he had told her all things that she had done—perhaps much more than is recorded here. The question which she submitted to them was whether this was not satisfactory proof that he was the Messiah.