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Messiah cometh (Messias erchetai). Hebrew word in N.T. only here and Joh 1:41 and explained by Christos in both places. The Samaritans looked for a Messiah, a prophet like Moses (Deu 18:18). Simon Magus gave himself out in Samaria as some great one and had a large following (Act 8:9). Pilate quelled an uprising in Samaria over a fanatical Messianic claimant (Josephus, Ant. XVIII. iv. 1).
When he is come (hotan elthēi ekeinos). “Whenever that one comes.” Indefinite temporal clause with hotan (hote, an) and the second aorist active subjunctive. Wistfully she turns to this dim hope as a bare possibility about this strange “prophet.”
He will declare unto us all things (anaggelei hēmin hapanta). Future active indicative of anaggellō, old and common verb to announce fully (ana, up and down). See also Joh 16:13. Perhaps here is light on the knowledge of her life by Jesus as well as about the way to worship God.