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40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 And many more believed because of His own aword.  
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for awe ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed1 the Christ, the Savior of the world.”  

Welcome at Galilee

43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee.
44 For aJesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.  
45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ahaving seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; bfor they also had gone to the feast.  

A Nobleman’s Son Healed

46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee awhere He had made the water wine. And there was a certain1 nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.  
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, a“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”  
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
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John 4:42

Not because of thy speaking (ouketi dia thn shn lalian). "No longer because of thy talk," good and effective as that was. Lalia (cf. lalew) is talk, talkativeness, mode of speech, one's vernacular, used by Jesus of his own speech (John 8:43).

We have heard (akhkoamen). Perfect active indicative of akouw, their abiding experience.

For ourselves (autoi). Just "ourselves."

The Saviour of the world (o swthr tou kosmou). See Matthew 1:21 for s"sei used of Jesus by the angel Gabriel. John applies the term swthr to Jesus again in I John 4:14. Jesus had said to the woman that salvation is of the Jews (verse John 4:22). He clearly told the Samaritans during these two days that he was the Messiah as he had done to the woman (verse John 4:26) and explained that to mean Saviour of Samaritans as well as Jews. Sanday thinks that probably John puts this epithet of Saviour in the mouth of the Samaritans, but adds: "At the same time it is possible that such an epithet might be employed by them merely as synonymous with Messiah." But why "merely"? Was it not natural for these Samaritans who took Jesus as their "Saviour," Jew as he was, to enlarge the idea to the whole world? Bernard has this amazing statement on John 4:42: "That in the first century Messiah was given the title s"tˆr is not proven." The use of "saviour and god" for Ptolemy in the third century BC is well known. "The ample materials collected by Magie show that the full title of honour, Saviour of the world, with which St. John adorns the Master, was bestowed with sundry variations in the Greek expression on Julius Caesar, Augustus, Claudius, Vespasian, Titus, Trajan, Hadrian, and other Emperors in inscriptions in the Hellenistic East" (Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 364). Perhaps Bernard means that the Jews did not call Messiah Saviour. But what of it? The Romans so termed their emperors and the New Testament so calls Christ (Luke 2:11; John 4:42; Acts 5:31; Acts 3:23; Philippians 3:20; Ephesians 5:23; Titus 1:4; Titus 2:13; Titus 3:6; II Timothy 1:10; II Peter 1:1, II Peter 1:11; II Peter 2:20; II Peter 3:2, II Peter 3:18). All these are writings of the first century AD The Samaritan villagers rise to the conception that he was the Saviour of the world.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:42:

Matthew 1:21
John 3:17
John 4:42
John 6:51
John 8:43
1 Timothy 4:10
1 John 4:14

 

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