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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 4:39 - 4:39
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many ... believed, etc. - The truth of Joh 4:35 begins to appear. These Samaritans were the foundation of the Church afterwards built up there. No miracle appears to have been wrought there (but unparalleled supernatural knowledge displayed): “we have heard Him ourselves” (Joh 4:42) sufficed to raise their faith to a point never attained by the Jews, and hardly as yet by the disciples - that He was “the Savior of the world” [Alford]. “This incident is further remarkable as a rare instance of the Lord’s ministry producing an awakening on a large scale” [Olshausen].