John 4:24

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 4:24

WORSHIP‘God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.’ John 4:24 It is impossible to imagine a subject that more intimately affects the daily life of every one of us. I think we shall best get hold of it if we first study on general principles the sacred office of the Holy Spirit in all true worship. I. Let us begin, then, with the office of the Holy Spirit in all Scriptural worship.—In order to see this clearly, we must bear in mind three most important... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 4:4-42

The Samaritan Woman (John 4:4-42 ). In this story of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4-42 Jesus depicts Himself as the Gift of God Who can give men living water (John 4:10), and can thus give men a spring of water within which will well up to eternal life (John 4:14). This is in line with the promise that in God is the ‘fountain of life’ in Psalms 36:9, and the indication that God is the spring of living waters in Jeremiah 2:13. Thus Jesus is here portraying Himself as fulfilling what God would... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 4:1-26

IV. 1– 42. Christ in Samaria. John 4:1-Ezekiel : . Christ and the Samaritan Woman.— The Lord (for the title cf. John 6:23, John 11:2, John 20:20, John 21:7, with certain parts of Lk., e.g. Luke 18:6 *), having learned that the Pharisees are aware of the success of His baptism, administered by His disciples, retires to Galilee, to avoid opposition which might lead to a premature crisis. This obliged Him to pass through Samaria, unless He chose the longer route through Peræ a, often adopted... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 4:24

God is not a corporeal being, made up of blood, and flesh, and bones, having senses as bodies have, to be pleased with sensible things; but he is a spiritual Being, the Father of spirits, and requireth a spiritual service proportioned to his being; and therefore those that pay a religious homage to him, must do it with their spirits, and according to the rule that he hath prescribed, in truth and reality. This is now the will of God; and though he required of his people under the law a more... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 4:1-26

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 4:1-3. These verses form an historical introductory note prefixed to and explaining our Lord’s ministry in Samaria. He left Judæa to avoid conflict with the Pharisaic party.John 4:2. Though (καίτοιγε = howbeit, and yet).—This word is intended to indicate a partial correction of the report recorded in John 4:1 (vide also John 3:22; John 3:26). “Why did not Jesus Himself baptise? Just because He was the Lord, and as such reserved to Himself the baptism of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 4:19-24

John 4:19-24 God is Spirit; worship in spirit I. Christ lived in another region than that of religious quarrel. To Him, both Judaism and Samaritanism were worn-out forms of truth, and He came to put them both aside and to lead men into a new world. But had He been like some of our modern prophets, who place themselves above religious disputes, He would not have thought it worth while to decide which of them had most truth, which of them then was worthiest. "Both are nothing to Me," He would... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 4:24

John 4:24 The Worship of God, the Personal Spirit It is when we get into the midst of practical life, out of abstractions of thought, that we realize our need of a heavenly Father, that we turn to Christ as the revealer of that Divine and blessed truth. And of how we are led to do that I shall illustrate from the cases of those whom I have already dwelt on as needing to conceive God as impersonal. I. The idealist, who contemplates and worships God as Thought, and sees Him as essential Truth,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 4:24

DISCOURSE: 1618THE WORSHIP WHICH GOD REQUIRESJohn 4:24. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.BRETHREN, you are all upon the brink of eternity. You are all sinners. As sinners, you stand in need of mercy at the hands of God: and God is willing to bestow mercy upon every one of you, without exception. But he must be inquired of, in order that he may do this for you: and he must be inquired of, not in a cold and formal manner, but in sincerity of... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - John 4:24

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 4:1-54

Chapter 4Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized none, but his disciples,) ( John 4:1 )Now this can mean one of two things. Jesus baptized not, but His disciples, or, He only baptized His disciples; or, He didn't baptize at all, it was only His disciples who were baptizing. So, you have a choice. But when Jesus heard that the Pharisees had heard these things,He left Judea ( John 4:2 ),The Pharisees... read more

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