John 4:1
When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2(though not Jesus himself, but his disciples immersed,)
Cross References
Luke 2:11For there is born for you this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 19:34They replied: The Lord has need of him.
John 3:26And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony, behold, he immerses, and all are going to him.
1 Corinthians 2:8which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake.
Revelation 19:16And he has, on his raiment and on his thigh, a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.
Matthew Henry on John 4:1
It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel's land ( Isa. viii. 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. I. Departing out of Judea, ver. 1-3 . II. Passing through Samaria, which, though a visit in transitu, here takes… Read the whole commentary →