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When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus 2 made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself bap3 tized not, but his disciples,) he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

§ 25. OUR LORD'S DISCOURSE WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. MANY OF THE SAMARITANS BELIEVE ON HIM.-Sychar, that is, Shechem or Neapolis.

JOHN IV. 4-42.

4, 5 And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,1 near to the parcel of ground that Jacob 6 gave to his son Joseph.2 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.3

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, 8 Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy 9 meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the 10 Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have 11 given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living 12 water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, 13 and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst 14 again but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of 15 water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, 16 give me this water, that I thirst_not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus 17 saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman an

swered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well 18 said, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom 19 thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The 20 woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our

fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the 21 place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at 22 Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know 23 what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and

Sychar is the ancient Shechem, either with the same name slightly changed by the Jews, in their enmity, so as to denote a lie, or a drunkard; or more probably with a distinct name, in the sense of purchase, (from sachar, to buy,) not expressive of contempt, but commemorative of Jacob's purchase of the parcel of ground close by (Gen. 33. 19). See Wieseler, pp. 256-258,

2 Josh. 24. 32.

3 Sixth hour, i. e. about noon, when the heat was greatest.

• This mountain, i. e. Gerizim, between which and mount Ebal the town of Sychar or Shechem lay see Deut. 11. 29, 30; Judg. 9. 7.

5 Isa. 2. 1-3; Zech. 8. 20-23.

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now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 24 truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and 25 they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when 26 he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

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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 28 her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, 29 and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever 30 I did is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

31, 32 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But 33 he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said

the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to 35 finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months,' and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; 36 for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and 37 he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One 38 soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying 40 of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry 41 with them and he abode there two days. And many more believed be42 cause 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.

26. JESUS TEACHES PUBLICLY IN GALILEE.

JOHN IV. 43-45.

43, 44 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own 2 country.3 45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast for they also went unto the feast.

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MATT. IV. 17.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is

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MARK I. 14, 15.

-Preaching the gos- 14
pel of the kingdom of
God, and saying, The
time is fulfilled, and the 15

LUKE IV. 14, 15.

-And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught

ministry of John the Baptist had continued for at least a year and six months, before his imprisonment.

John 4. 35 contains a specification of time which is tolerably definite: "Say ye not, There are yet four months, and the harvest cometh?" According to Lev. 23. 5-7, 10, 11, 14, 15, and 2 His own country: as applied to Christ, this Jos. Antiq. 3. 10. 5, the first-fruits of the barley-means here Judea, where he had been born; comharvest were presented on the second day of the paschal week; while the wheat-harvest was two or three weeks later: see Bibl. Res. in Palest. II.

p. 99, sq. Hence this journey of our Lord must have been made in the latter part of November or in December, about eight months after the preceding passover. It follows, (allowing one year to the events in Part II.,) that the public

pare ver. 47 of this chapter. It may be observ-
ed, that it is only in this place we find John even
alluding to the fact, that our Lord was born in
Bethlehem; but this slight passing allusion is a
striking confirmation of the explicit statements
of Matthew (ch. 2. 1) and Luke (ch. 2. 4).
3 Comp. Luke 4. 24.

4 John 2. 23.

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§ 27. JESUS AGAIN AT CANA, [see § 20,] WHERE HE HEALS THE SON OF A NOBLEMAN LYING ILL AT CAPERNAUM.-Cana of Galilee.

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JOHN IV. 46-54.

So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick_at Caper47 naum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his 48 son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except 49 ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman saith unto 50 him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way;

thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto 51 him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants 52 met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at 53 the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself 54 believed, and his whole house. This is again the second' miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.

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§ 28. JESUS AT NAZARETH; HE IS THERE REJECTED; AND FIXES HIS ABODE

AT CAPERNAUM.

LUKE IV. 16-31.

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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up 17 for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it 18 was written,3 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed * me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to 19 the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable 20 year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the syna21 gogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is 22 this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and won

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dered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they 23 said, Is not this Joseph's son? And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard 24 done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily I 25 say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout 26 all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a

1 John 2. 11.

2 The visit to Nazareth is inserted here on the testimony of Luke 4. 16, sq., which is supported by Matt. 4. 13. The visit mentioned in Matt. 13.

54, sq.; Mark 6. 1, sq., was later, and took place after the raising of Jairus's daughter.

Isa. 61. 1. Comp. Isa. 58. 6.

4 Hath anointed me (expioé ue): by the application of this prophecy our Lord intimated that he was The Christ (ò Xpioτós), or the Messiah

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LUKE IV.

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27 city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, 28 saving Naaman the Syrian. And all they in the synagogue, when they 29 heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was

MATT. IV. 13-16.

13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of 14 Zabulon and Nephthalim: that it

built, that they might cast him down 30 headlong. But he passing through 31 the midst of them went his way, and came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. [See in‍§ 30].

might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,3 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the 16 sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. [Ver. 17 in § 26.]

§ 29. THE CALL OF SIMON PETER AND ANDREW, AND OF JAMES AND JOHN, WITH THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES.-By the Sea of Galilee; near Capernaum.

LUKE V. 1-11.

1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word 2 of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their 3 nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and 4 taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night,

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MARK I. 16-20.

Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

2 2 Kings 5. 14.

11 Kings 17. 1, 9. 3 Isa. 9. 1, 2. That the call of the four apostles belongs here, in accordance with Mark's order, is obvious; since they were present with Jesus at the healing of the demoniac and of Peter's wife's mother, §§ 30, 31.-The three accounts all probably relate to the same transaction, though many writers prefer to take what is narrated in Luke 5. 1-11, as a wholly distinct and later event, which preference is very ably supported by Greswell, Dissert. IX. vol. ii. Luke relates more particularly the former part, including the putting off upon the lake in Simon's boat and also the miraculous draught, and passes lightly over the latter part. Matthew and Mark, on the other hand, narrate the former

and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let 6 down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net 7 brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came,

part only generally, but the latter part with more detail. In the one part, Luke introduces circumstances which the others omit; in the other part, Matthew and Mark mention facts which Luke has not noted. The remark of Spanheim is here just: "Nihil vero frequentius, quam quædam prætermitti ab his, suppleri ab aliis; ne vel scriptores sacri ex compacto scripsisse viderentur, vel lectores uni ex illis reliquis spretis hærerent:" that is, Particulars are frequently omitted by one evangelist, which are supplied by others; lest the sacred writers should even seem to have used collusion, and lest we should delight to read one of them to the neglect of the rest. Dubia Evang. Tom. III. Dub. 72. vii.

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and filled both the ships, so that they be8 gan to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.2 9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they 10 had taken: and so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

17 And Jesus said unto
them, Come ye after
me, and I will make
you to become fishers
of men. And straight-
way they forsook their
nets, and followed him.
And when he had gone
a little farther thence,
he saw James the son
of Zebedee, and John
his brother, who also
were in the ship
mending their nets.
And straightway he
called them and they 11
left their father Zebe-
dee in the ship with
the hired servants, and
went after him.

thence, he saw other 19 two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 20 22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. [See in § 32.]

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And when they had
brought their ships to
land, they forsook all,
and followed him.
[See in § 33.]

§ 30. THE HEALING OF A DEMONIAC IN THE SYNAGOGUE.-Capernaum.

MARK I. 21-28.

And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and 31 22 taught. And they were astonished 32 at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not 23 as the scribes. And there was in 33

their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 saying, Let us alone; what have 34 we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the

It may be inferred from this expression, that our Lord's Divinity was now first discerned by Pe

LUKE IV. 31-37.

And taught them on the sabbath days. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out_with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who ter: see the following references.

2 Comp. Ex. 20. 19; Judg. 13. 22; Isa. 6. 5.

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