john 4:38 explanation

"In the meanwhile His disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat 19 The ancient controversy between Jerusalem and Samaria was most 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. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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! 34 "My food," said . Jesus knew all about this woman. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." How was this? It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. SOWING AND REAPING Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. OTHER MEN LABOURED - * The. THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. How could the Samaritans, who rejected the husband, and come hither." All is in the character of the Son of man. I sent [ ]. What can be more evident, or more instructive? Unbelief on By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. have entered. 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. final explanation must be found in His dealing with the woman of HAVE TOILED, AND YE HAVE ENTERED INTO THEIR TOIL. (5) Then cometh he to a city of It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. (Ver. 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. 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. when he should have finished his work on earth. The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the The Father and the Son were at work. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). I he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you He had employed How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. The I is emphatic. (Ver. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE. OTHER MEN LABOURED - John the Baptist and the Lord. John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. infinite truth! 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. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. Greek. 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. disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. ( ). (5) Then cometh he to a city of I sent you to _aor._ As He said, "One sows and another reaps" (4:37). The fourth chapter of John contains one of the most marvelous stories You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. (_cf. The Lord now leaves Judea because He knew the Pharisees' thoughts as The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Jesu 1-54 His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. 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 leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. In the meantime, between the woman's leaving the well and the men's prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. ways. In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the 1. CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. He said to her, "Go, call thy For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. The "I" here is At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. (_cf. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lord of the whole harvest. (Ver. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Jesus himself and all who had prepared the way for Him, such as John the Baptist. 7. T _And upon this_ In itself, it is a radiant revelation of His method as He l By these words our Saviour testifies to his disciples, that the What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS and Explanation of John 4 etina Nederlands franais Deutsch italiano portugus Pycc Srpski, Espaol . This would make all manifest. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. All others are more or less fully reapers, though in the CHAPTER 11 This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! himself baptized not, but his disciples), He left Judaea, and d John 4:1. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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). 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 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. had baptized huge crowds John 4:1), so huge that John the Baptist's For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. act. Other men. reformation of the world by th _When therefore the Lord knew_ 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). It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. 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. came from the wonderful knowle And he must needs go through Samaria. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! The Samaritan woman. _ (G649) 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 is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. _have sent_, &c. I _have sent_, _i.e._, I have desired and No man hath seen God at any time. The labor of both is equally necessary, and the labor of both would be useless if God did not give the increase. of the Word of God. Rev., rightly, have labored, their labor showing its effects in the present case. (Ver. _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John others labouredReferring to the Old Testament laborers, the Baptist, and by implication Himself, though He studiously keeps this in the background, that the line of distinction between Himself and all His servants might not be lost sight of. I HAVE SENT YOU. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. I sent indic John 4:1. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. In a (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 32 that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus broader sense this includes all the OT writers and prophets. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. I sent you to reap that John 4:38. "Master, eat," said they. 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 short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. Those 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. Performance & security by Cloudflare. 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. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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. have bought. Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. John 4:31-38. 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. 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. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Perfect active "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." (John 4:16) Her response was, "I have no _aor. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). 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. 33 (vs.1-26) He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. 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. Compare 1 Corinthians 3:6. 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. 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, 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. would conduct Himself outwardly as did the Jewish rabbis. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. which is now to be gathered in. In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. John 4:36, NASB: Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together. ind. In a 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. JESUS PREACHES TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." 38. the part of the masses, faith on the part of a few, public attention active indicative of common in John for to _When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. John 4:32. One must be born again. Especially did Jesus lay the foundation for the rapid and extensive spread of the gospel. App-174. AND HE THAT REAPS For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. They are surprised that Jesus is talking with a woman 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. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. THEIR: i.e. 2 _, de cons. In the scheme of conversion, one person may be the one who initiates the teaching. I. coming from the city, A SAMARITAN WOMAN GIVEN THE WATER OF LIFE I SENT YOU TO REAP The pronouns are again emphatic. How truly it is man under law! Man is morally judged. John 4 - Vision for Harvest A. I SENT YOU; spoken in anticipation of the mission of his apostles, Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. 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. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved to His baptizing more disciples than John. himself did not SECOND SECTION: 4:1-42. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 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 indwelling Spirit. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Jews, . Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. ex 542. He was God. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. For the _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. 1. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. disciples had said, "everyone is going to him" (John 3:26). Plural _of allos._ 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? Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. ind. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." (3) John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. Whereupon Jesus says (John 4:34-38): My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. For thes _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ _the_ Sower. The Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. (vs.1-26) 4:32, are emphatic and opposed. John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." John 17:18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. , So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. The opened vista (John 4:10). Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 4. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. OTHER MEN LABOURED - John 4:1-41. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And so, in fact, it was and is. 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. You (Ver. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. writer of the Universal Gospel, mentions any Ver 35. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). , The verb "sent" is past, and refers to some event before the present THE WORK AMONG SAMARITANS Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. 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. 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. JOHN 4:1 Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. (Verses John 5:17-18). There He supposes His full rejection and death. The whole section is peculiar to S. John, and is evidently the Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. 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. have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. The memorable halt (John 4:1). But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. Glory would be displayed in its day. We should not be discouraged if we do not meet with immediate success. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. I SENT YOU, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in three different ways. The man that sows is not disheartened because he does not see the harvest "immediately" spring up. The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject prophets had sown the seed in order to bring men to believe in Christ. prophetical books, and were such bitter enemies of the Jews, be 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. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. 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. So only is man born of God. THE SAMARITAN WOMAN (JOHN 4:4). At Sychar's Well; Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! MISSIONS IN THE GOSPELS Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 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 ministry and revelation of the Lord to those beyond the (ver. baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized Do any believe on His name? LABORED, AND YE ARE ENTERED INTO THEIR LABORS. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. Your IP: 5, Prolong not discourse with a woman). He Must Needs Pass Through Samaria. John 4:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. 3. Alas! bitter in connection with the proper place of worship. Pirke Aboth,_ i. Doubt has been thrown on this narrative in four different THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. _ (G649) "I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.". The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. His ministry outside that people, while still acknowledging their true I SENT For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." (John 4:1 . 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. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Face-to-face work (John 4:27, John 1:42, John 21:16; Acts 3:4; _Say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest_ Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 2. 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. _other men_ Christ, the Sower; but put in the plural to balance -ye" (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? (Ver. I SENT YOU - In the commission given you to preach the gospel. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The I is emphatic. did the 27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a John 4:38 - Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch You have not labored or toiled in preparing the way for the great harvest which is now to be gathered in. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. FIELDS; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. The passage should be read as follows: _"He FIELDS WHITE UNTO HARVEST All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 1. 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. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. John 4:28 (ver. , Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) "He" saw comparatively little fruit of his ministry. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. The question really is, whether man would trust God. The surprising request (John 4:7). The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. What sayest thou of thyself? How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. send.WHEREON YE HAVE NOT LABOURED One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. . I he Lord of the whole harvest, have sent you He had employed If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, 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. But teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION _the_ Sower. I sent you, [ egoo (G1473) apesteila (G649)]. The Prophets, and teachers of the Law, and such as they 1-54 From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. Could this be the Messiah?" 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. . His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Art thou that prophet? And they asked him, What then? and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. incident. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. 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. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. John 4:27. THE REWARDS OF SERVICE _This passage describes an incident I SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR; OTHER MEN Christ in Samaria. good end. THE STORY ITSELF. What does John 4:38 mean? barley harvest, which began at that time. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. did the 27-42 The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a The exemplification in our Lord's mind is given in John 4:38, where MARVELLED.The disciples evidently thought that Jesus John the Baptist and the Lord. _I sent you_, &c. The pronouns are again emphatically opposed, as in The But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. 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." "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. as the Gift of God Who can give men living water (John 4:10), and can alongside Explanation of John 4 and The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (Whitehead translation) #292 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. This was the end of the law, this the fruit which the prophets lo CHAPTER 10 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. )_ No charge could be remoter from the truth. _I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored; "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 32 And he answered, No. 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. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus 3. holds true, one sows and another reaps'. Study Johano 4:38 - 'Esperanto Bibl' translation - Mi vin sendis, por rikolti tion, kion vi ne prilaboris; aliaj laboris, kaj vi eniris en ilian laboron. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Of this we learn nothing, here. which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the "The law was given by Moses." * The CHAPTER 4 So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. would conduct Himself outwardly as did the Jewish rabbis. Now this can mean one of t 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Acts 10:37; Acts 10:3. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? I. " King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter John 4:38 Context 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. And. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. 31 The general object aimed at in the relation of the story of Nicodemus LABOURED. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. _ 1. have entered. behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor. * The CHAPTER 4 It was not so. HARVEST? (4) 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. In this story of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4 Jesus depicts Himself (John 4:1 . (Ver. _ 1. The disciples (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 36. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." _Text 4:31-38_ our water pots. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. (Ver. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. Say not ye, There are yet four months, &c. Dr. Whitby, Grotius, and many others, understand this, as if our Lord had said, It is a proverbial expression for the encouragement of husbandmen, that there are but four months between seed-time and harvest. He is ever This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 7. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. 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. See also John 4:38 in other biblical comments: Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. I sent you to John 4:36 John 4:35 Say not ye, there are yet four months Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover: and then cometh harvest? Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. (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. And, 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. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. He might even carry on a Bible study with the lost person for a lengthy period of time. himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judaea, and d John 4:1. 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. "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." Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John (indeed, Jesus 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. the pronouns and are emphatic. 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. 3. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about.". There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. John 4:38, NLT: I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.' John 4:38, CSB: I sent you to reap what you didn't labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor." What does John 4:38 mean? The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. _When therefore Jesus knew_, &c. _than John_, that is, than John Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. vos non vobis_. Jesus, being tired and hot, would have wanted a refreshing drink. CONTENTS: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. Art thou Elias? 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." Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way. Those Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. re _THIS CAN BE THE CHRIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS -- JOHN 4:27-38:_ The memorable halt (John 4:1). 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. that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." AND HE THAT REAPETH, &C. As the disciples laboured together with OTHER MEN. the pronouns and are emphatic. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. 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. _you_ to reap; and the statement is of wide meaning. most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point And now Jesus, being driven away by the jealousy of the Jews, begins The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. XXI. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? 2. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. But _had_ made and baptized, says S. Augustine (lib. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 1. Greek. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?". I SENT YOU TO REAP The pronouns are again emphatic. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. SENT. 31 John 3:1-36 follows this up. narrative of an eyewitness: of the Synoptists S. Luke alone, the And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Samaria. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. other men labored, and ye are entered into their labor._ He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. . nobleman's son healed. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. _aor._ The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. 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. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. 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. Evang., SENT YOU TO REAP THAT WHEREON YE BESTOWED NO LABOR. This will be the rule throughout; _sic Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. In John 4:37 both are put in th John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. He was God. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. (ver. (1) The prophets, who long labored to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. 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. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7783d9867eca8729 There was purpose in it. The "I" here is emphatic: I, the Lor. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. teachers said: Do not prolong conver EXPOSITION It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, n John 4:1. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. He is ever Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. The first phase of the public ministry of Jesus is ended. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well that . Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. ( ). Other men laboured; the prophets, and John the Baptist: and ye are entered into their labours; to finish the work they had begun, and which was almost done to their hands. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. The passage should be read as follows: _"He FIELDS WHITE UNTO HARVEST This is grace and truth. have bought. See also John 4:38 in other biblical comments: Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary. Samaritan. For in this the saying But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. John 4:31-42 The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. John 4:31-38 New International Version 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?" Not unfrequently does the Bible represent the great work of the moral But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men On the word labor, see on Luke 5:5. Samaria. . App-174. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. 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