John 4:24 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

John 4:24

22 You worship ^awhat you do not know; we know what we worship, for ^bsalvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will ^aworship the Father in ^bspirit ^cand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

24 ^aGod is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah ^ais coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, ^bHe will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, ^a“I who speak to you am He.”

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27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,

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Woman, etc.—Here are three weighty pieces of information: (1) The point raised will very soon cease to be of any moment, for a total change of dispensation is about to come over the Church. (2) The Samaritans are wrong, not only as to the place, but the whole grounds and nature of their worship, while in all these respects the truth lies with the Jews. (3) As God is a Spirit, so He both invites and demands a spiritual worship, and already all is in preparation for a spiritual economy, more in harmony with the true nature of acceptable service than the ceremonial worship by consecrated persons, place, and times, which God for a time has seen meet to keep up till fulness of the time should come.

neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem—that is, exclusively (Malachi 1:11; I Timothy 2:8).

worship the Father—She had talked simply of "worship"; our Lord brings up before her the great OBJECT of all acceptable worship—"THE FATHER."

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