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"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
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The Power of Personal Testimony
The woman's testimony was simple and personal: "He told me all things that I ever did." She didn't deliver a complex theological argument but shared her own powerful experience. Commentators note that this personal encounter with Christ's divine knowledge was the catalyst that compelled her to speak and motivated the townspeople to come and see for themselves.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 w…
All things that ever I did (παντα α εποιησα).
Ha , not οσα (as many as), no "ever" in the Greek. But a gui…
19th Century
Anglican
Is not this the Christ?—Better, is this the Christ? She felt that He was a prophet when His words revealed her p…
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Baptist
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with he…
As the disciples approached, the woman made her way back to Sychar to report the interview to her fellow villagers. She was so excited that she for…
16th Century
Protestant
See a man. Since she speaks doubtfully here, she might seem not to have been greatly moved by the authority of Christ. I reply that, as sh…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Come, see a man An uncommon, an extraordinary man, a prophet, and, who himself says, he is the Messiah, who is now a…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
After presenting the teaching on spiritual water, the Evangelist now deals with its effect.
First, he presents the effect itself.<…
