john 4:38 explanation

The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. have entered. See also John 4:38 in other biblical comments: Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. our Lord in this spiritual harvest,to encourage them, he put them Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." _I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored; himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d John 4:1. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. 2 Corinthians 10:15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. 4. our water pots. Theme: The Lord Jesus encourages us to enter into His joyous work of harvesting souls for His kingdom by teaching what the work of the harvest is like. Other men. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. in mind of the reward. Do you not say, "There are still four months and then comes the harvest?'" Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." John 4:27. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. For the _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ He that comes from above from heaven is above all. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lord of the whole harvest. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Jesus, being tired and hot, would have wanted a refreshing drink. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. HARVEST? Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:34-38 Commentary on John 4:27-42 (Read John 4:27-42) The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories have not laboured, have laboured, have entered, I have sent you, and am now sending you, to reap that whereon ye have not toiled to weariness, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. The disciples theref EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Glory would be displayed in its day. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. I sent you to In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. The Father seeks worshippers. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. INTRODUCTORY WORDS A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. "In the meanwhile His disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? emphatic: I, the Lor 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. 32 (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?". No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. barley harvest, which began at that time. [ See verse text ] Jacob gave to his son Joseph. position in the dealings of God. . (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. The pronouns, as in John husband, and come hither." It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. the pronouns and are emphatic. John 4:32. Or the plural may be chosen as in contrast with the plural ye, and as pointing to the general truth, while the immediate reference is to Christ only. Why should He not show Himself to the world? that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus LABOURED. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. In the meantime, between the woman's leaving the well and the men's As soon as Jesus opens the living spring within our hearts, we abandon Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. , As He said, "One sows and another reaps" (4:37). Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. He saw him under the fig tree. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. 1. have bought. John 4:27. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. JESUS IN SAMARIA. 72.52.197.117 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. reformation of the world by th _When therefore the Lord knew_ In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. The indwelling Spirit. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. I sent [ ]. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. indic John 4:1. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. What does John 4:38 mean? The memorable halt (John 4:1). John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. INTRODUCTORY WORDS Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The. The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." OTHER MEN LABOURED - Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. (vs.1-26) He might even carry on a Bible study with the lost person for a lengthy period of time. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. HAVE TOILED, AND YE HAVE ENTERED INTO THEIR TOIL. RE _THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. (Ver. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 36. 5, Prolong not discourse with a woman). I. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (6) Now Jacob's well was there. Such shall live. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 1-42. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. He was God. T _When therefore the Lord knew_ This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. The perfect tense. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. FIELDS; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. other men labored, and ye are entered into their labor._ The Prophets, and teachers of the Law, and such as they 1-54 1. Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. The memorable halt (John 4:1). The question really is, whether man would trust God. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. act. John 4:28 Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." In a Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. AND HE THAT REAPETH, &C. As the disciples laboured together with The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. is signified. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTERS - John 4:34-38 Bethany Bible Church Worship Times Location Sunday Sunday School - on hold until fall Morning Worship, 10:45 am Revival Prayer Meeting, 6:00 pm Wednesday AM Bible Study, 10:00 am Church Family Prayer, 7:00 pm Bethany Bible Church Print This Page PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTERS - John 4:34-38 The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Nor was it yet complete. Man is morally judged. MARVELLED.The disciples evidently thought that Jesus Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. That the man who is crowned with eminent success has no cause of "boasting" over others, any more than the man who reaps a field of grain should boast over the man who sowed it. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. Then (ver. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. So only is man born of God. He said to her, "Go, call thy But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Plural _of allos._ did the 27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the writer of the Universal Gospel, mentions an VER 35. Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. ARE ENTERED. This He does in verses 16-19. And he answered, No. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. In the immediate application to the present case, the others is to be interpreted of Christ Himself, who had been sowing during their absence, and it may be of the woman who has sown this seed by her testimony to the Samaritans. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." So, he came again to Cana of Galilee ( John 4:38-46 Now Cana was a little village there in the valley as you're coming from Nazareth, up over the top of the hill, you drop into this little valley and Cana sits there in the valley, and it's on the road from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. which is now to be gathered in. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. OTHER MEN LABOURED - The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Click to reveal Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. I sent re _THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. John 4:31-42 Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. _have sent_, &c. I _have sent_, _i.e._, I have desired and _The ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. How can such have relationship with God? indic John 4:1. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. (Verses John 1:44-51). The Father and the Son were at work. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. . And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. Jesus knew all about this woman. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (_cf. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 32 Evang., ways. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest final explanation must be found in His dealing with the woman of This will be the rule throughout; _sic It was not that they were better than their neighbours. (5) Then cometh he to a city of John 4:28 In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 1. our water pots. (_cf. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. JESUS IN SAMARIA. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. send.WHEREON YE HAVE NOT LABOURED You Plural _of allos._ Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. 2. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. 33 He is ever 31 The passage should be read as follows: _"He FIELDS WHITE UNTO HARVEST The Woman's Witness and the Believing Samaritans. On _a priori_grounds. The Saviour himself, who by his personal ministry taught the people, and prepared them for the success which was to attend the preaching of the apostles. (John 4:1 . THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE WORLD Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. The surprising request (John 4:7). THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE HAVE NOT TOILED: OTHERS The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. " King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter John 4:38 Context The exemplification in our Lord's mind is given in John 4:38, where Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well . MARVELLED.The disciples evidently thought that Jesus CHAPTER 4 To reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour - meaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. for he knew He was the Christ. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. The After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. In John 4:37 both are put in th John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. good end. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR; OTHER MEN _aor._ The indwelling Spirit. I SENT YOU; spoken in anticipation of the mission of his apostles, But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 38. have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. "He must, increase, but I decrease." And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for . _other men_ Christ, the Sower; but put in the plural to balance -ye" But "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ( ) the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. John the Baptist and the Lord. John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. will come'? Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that _the_ Sower. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men (2) the teachers among the Jews, who have read and explained the law and taught the people. LABOURED. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.Or, others have laboured. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard 3. Could this be the Messiah?" 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. (John 12:48). c._ 18), for John was now in prison. Samaria. * The CHAPTER 4 _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. ( ). the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets lo CHAPTER 10 App-174. Jews, . OTHER MEN LABORED; spoken of all the preparation made by Christ and I SENT YOU TO REAP The pronouns are again emphatic. We begin with the usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. have laboured. How was this? 36. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. The Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! LABORED, AND YE ARE ENTERED INTO THEIR LABORS. 42). His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. (Verses John 4:31-38). The result immediately follows. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. The disciples most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Jesus spoke about different roles in the process of trying to produce a harvest. through "sin." Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. SENT. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman John 4:31-42 2. The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present The disciples theref EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN ( ). But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. This we have had fully before. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. JOHN 4:38 KJV "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." John 4:38 " I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. The I is emphatic. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the 7. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. (Ver. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. Evang., THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (Verses John 5:17-18). 2. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? Read John 4:38 - 'Webster's Bible' translation - I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors. Theme: The Lord Jesus encourages us to enter into His joyous work of harvesting souls for His kingdom by teaching what the work of the harvest is like. He confined his labors to Judea, and even there he was occupied in sowing seed which chiefly sprang up after his death. But John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. reap. When? You ind. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. (Delivered Sunday, December 7, 2003 at Bethany Bible Church. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. 2. SAY NOT YOU, THERE ARE YET FOUR MONTHS, AND THEN COMES Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. The words, "He must needs pass through Samaria" are arresting. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. (John 4:1 . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. in chap. predecessors, especially John the Baptist and his followers. I SENT YOU TO REAP The pronouns are again emphatic. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:38 Commentary on John 4:27-42 (Read John 4:27-42) The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). did the 27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. 31 We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. had baptized huge crowds John 4:1), so huge that John the Baptist's (Verse John 3:10). 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. _Text 4:31-38_ And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." 33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" 34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. SOWING AND REAPING If He judges, it is not without full warning. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 4:36, NLT: The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. (See on [1780]Joh 4:42). prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be When He says, "I sent you," He refers back to their past appointment to the apostleship, though it points only to the future discharge of it, for they had nothing to do with the present ingathering of the Sycharites. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. I sent you to reap that John 4:38. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. THE STORY ITSELF. Jesus speaks of some point in the past. _ (G649) reap. When? The Samaritan woman. Read John 4:38 - 'Greek New Testament: Textus Receptus (1550/1894)' translation - and Explanation of John 4 Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Bengel's Gnomen John 4:38. _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. ( ). position in the dealings of God. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Jacob gave to his son Joseph. And. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Every part of the work of the ministry and of teaching men is needful, and we should rejoice that we are permitted to bear any part, however humble, in bringing sinners to the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:21-24. ye bestowed no labourmeaning that much of their future success would arise from the preparation already made for them. in mind of the reward. final explanation must be found in His dealing with the woman of of the Word of God. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James Version.) Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." that whereon ye bestowed no labour; being sent to the Jews, who had the writings of the prophets, and were versed in them; and had learned from them that the Messiah was to come, and were now in general expectation of him; so that they had nothing more to do, than to declare to those persons who were cultivated by the prophets, and were like to ground tilled and manured, that the Messiah was come, and the kingdom of heaven was at hand. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. I HAVE SENT YOU. 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about.". I. (1) None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. In the scheme of conversion, one person may be the one who initiates the teaching. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. Not unfrequently does the Bible represent the great work of the moral The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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