Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
All things that ever I did (panta a epoihsa). a, not osa (as many as), no "ever" in the Greek. But a guilty conscience (verse John 4:18 f.) led her to exaggerate a bit.
Can this be the Christ? (mhti outov estin o Xristos). She is already convinced herself (verses John 4:26 f.), but she puts the question in a hesitant form to avoid arousing opposition. With a woman's intuition she avoided ouk and uses mhti. She does not take sides, but piques their curiosity.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:29:
Mark 8:29
John 4:19
John 7:47
John 18:35
John 21:5
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