48 Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'
Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'
The signs and wonders that God Most High hath done with me, it is good before me to shew.
The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,
long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.
And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles,
and many more did believe because of his word, and said to the woman -- `No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'
the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'
`him,' whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,
And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;
And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,
And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;
and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,
if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;
`Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him;
for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.
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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,