John 4:29
“Come and see a man who was able to tell me all about my past life [HYP], even though I never met him before Could this man be the Messiah?”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
In Context
28The woman left her water jar there and went into the town. She said to the people there,
30So many people left the town and started going to where Jesus was.
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:19Samuel replied, “I am that man. Go ahead of me with your servant to the place where the people make sacrifices. Both of you will eat with me today. Tomorrow morning I will tell you what you are wanting to know, and then I will send you home.
John 1:41After Andrew left Jesus, the first thing he did was to find his own older brother Simon and say to him, “We have found the Messiah!”
John 4:25The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us everything we need to know.” (‘Messiah’ and ‘Christ’ both mean ‘God’s promised king’.)
John 7:31But many of the crowd believed that he had come from God. They said, “When the Messiah comes, he certainly will not do more miracles than this man has done, will he?”
Revelation 22:17God’s Spirit and his people, who are like [MET] the bride of Christ, say to each one who desires to believe, “Come!” Whoever hears this should also say to each one who desires to believe, “Come!” Spiritually thirsty people should come [MET]! Everyone who desires the water that enables people to live forever should take it as a free gift!
Matthew Henry on John 4:28-43
Christ at the Well of Samaria. 27 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 her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to… Read the whole commentary →