48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
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48 Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.
48 Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'
48 Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
48 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
48 Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
And many more believed because of his own word; And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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Commentary on John 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel's land (Isa. 8:8), not only the place of his birth, but the scene of his preaching and miracles. This land in our Saviour's time was divided into three parts: Judea in the south, Galilee in the north, and Samaria lying between them. Now, in this chapter, we have Christ in each of these three parts of that land.
Jhn 4:1-3
We read of Christ's coming into Judea (ch. 3:22), after he had kept the feast at Jerusalem; and now he left Judea four months before harvest, as is said here (v. 35); so that it is computed that he staid in Judea about six months, to build upon the foundation John had laid there. We have no particular account of his sermons and miracles there, only in general, v. 1.
Jhn 4:4-26
We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themselves. They worshipped the God of Israel only, to whom they erected a temple on mount Gerizim, in competition with that at Jerusalem. There was great enmity between them and the Jews; the Samaritans would not admit Christ, when they saw he was going to Jerusalem (Lu. 9:53); the Jews thought they could not give him a worse name than to say, He is a Samaritan. When the Jews were in prosperity, the Samaritans claimed kindred to them (Ezra 4:2), but, when the Jews were in distress, they were Medes and Persians; see Joseph. Antiq. 11.340-341; 12.257. Now observe,
Observe,
Jhn 4:27-42
We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman.
Jhn 4:43-54
In these verses we have,
Observe,