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Joh 4:40. Μεῖναι, to abide [to tarry]) always, or at least a long time.-ἔμεινεν, He abode) We do not read that the Samaritans were then baptized. Nor was then the time as yet for the Church being regularly and permanently established outside of Judea. It is probable that many of them were subsequently baptized; Act 8:16, [under Philip’s preaching] “They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus”.-δύο ἡμέρας, two days) He once therefore passed the night there. They were supplied with one draught of the living water unto everlasting life; Joh 4:14, “The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life.” The same was the case with the Ethiopian eunuch, Acts 8.