So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
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So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
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Then when the Samaritas were come vnto him they besought him that he wolde tary with the. And he aboode there two dayes.
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Then when the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he woulde tarie with them: and he abode there two dayes.
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- Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
- Luke 24:29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
- Genesis 32:26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
- Luke 8:38 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
- Luke 19:5-10 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.” Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.” Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- Acts 16:15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain, for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
- Proverbs 4:13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
- Jeremiah 14:8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him,…
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
Ver. 40. Were come unto him] We no sooner believe, but we would fain see, and be brought a spe ad speciem, from hope to sight.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Sichemites being come to Christ, had some discourse…
The Sichemites being come to Christ, had some discourse with him, as appeareth from Joh 4:41,42. What the subject matter of their discourse was we are not told; we may know that it was spiritual, and something proper to excite faith in them, for believing was the effect of it. They desire that he would abide with them: thus their faith wrought by love. Our Saviour, that he might not discourage the beginning of their faith, did stay with them two days: for although, when he sent out his disciples, he commanded them not to go into the way of the Samaritans, yet himself was not obliged by that law, and did sometimes, by preaching to heathens, and converting of them, give an earnest of the calling of the Gentiles, whose fuller calling was reserved to after times; yet, probably, the reason why he would not stay longer with them than two days, was because the time was not yet come for the fuller calling of the Gentiles, and he was not willing by a longer abode with them to give offence to the Jews, between whom and the Samaritans was a rooted hatred upon the account of their differing religion.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So when the Samaritans were come unto him,.... The…
So when the Samaritans were come unto him,.... The Ethiopic version reads, all the Samaritans; they came to him at Jacob's well, upon the woman's solicitations, and the account she gave of this extraordinary person: and after they had conversed with him, and heard him themselves, they were taken with his divine discourses, and being thoroughly persuaded that he was the Messiah,
they besought him that he would tarry with them; they were not like the Gergesenes, who besought him to depart out of their coasts as soon he was in them: but these men were delighted with his company; and notwithstanding his being a Jew, desired a conversation with him, and entreated that he would go along with them to their city, and stay with them:
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and he abode there two days; he went with them to Sychar. He would not deny their request, lest they should be discouraged; and yet would not make any long stay with them, that he might give no umbrage to the Jews; though it is very likely from this short stay in Samaria, they afterwards reproached him as a Samaritan, Joh 8:48. Our Lord's direction to his disciples not to enter into any of the cities of the Samaritans, was not a rule to himself, or binding upon him, and was only a rule to them "pro tempore".
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 40. He abode there two days.] We are…
Verse 40. He abode there two days.] We are not told that he wrought any miracles among them; this does not appear to have been necessary: they were a simple-hearted, teachable people, and they credited him on the evidence of his own eternal truth. Why are not miracles wrought now? Miracles were only for the establishment of the doctrines of Christianity, where they were first preached; we profess to believe these doctrines; therefore, to us, miracles would be useless. Where the doctrine is credited, no miracle is necessary: the Samaritans believed, and no miracle was wrought among them; for the simple reason, it was not necessary.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain abode two days--Two precious days, surely, to the Redeemer…
abode two days--Two precious days, surely, to the Redeemer Himself! Unsought, He had come to His own, yet His own received Him not: now those who were not His own had come to Him, been won by Him, and invited Him to their town that others might share with them in the benefit of His wonderful ministry. Here, then, would He solace His already wounded spirit and have in this outfield village triumph of His grace, a sublime foretaste of the inbringing of the whole Gentile world into the Church.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 40. Samaritans were come unto him—How must the faces…
40. Samaritans were come unto him—How must the faces of Jesus and of these simple and ready Samaritans have mutually shone upon each other!
Of the divine converse he vouchsafed unto them, the Evangelist gives us no report. But the result was, they came to Jesus with the prayer that Jesus would come to them.
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Two days—In which he seems to have wrought no miracles, but to have been accepted as the true Messiah for the divinity of the truth he taught. Did he expand the declarations of Joh_4:21-24, proclaiming the approaching hour when Judaism and Samaritanism would be fused into one great dispensation of the Spirit?
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 40. besought him] Or, kept beseeching Him. How different…
40. besought him] Or, kept beseeching Him. How different from His own people at Nazareth; Mat_13:58; Luk_4:29. Comp. the thankful Samaritan leper, Luk_17:16-17.
tarry with them] Better, abide with them. See on Joh_1:33. They perhaps mean, take up His abode permanently with them, or at any rate for some time.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (40) When the Samaritans were come.—The next step in…
(40) When the Samaritans were come.—The next step in their faith is to go to Him and ask Him to remain with them, that they too may learn from Him; and He, a Jew, accepts the hospitality of Samaria, and abides with them for two days.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They were already convinced; but they did more they…
They were already convinced; but they did more they came to him. So when the Samaritans came to him; they continued asking him they persistently prayed that he would abide with them. How unlike the treatment of Jews and Gadarenes, of scribes and Pharisees! There were some who besought him to depart from them, others who stoned him, Herodians and Pharisees who plotted to destroy him. But these hated Samaritans yearned for more of his fellowship, more of his words and searching glance, more of the Word of life. So called heresy and heterodoxy may sometimes show itself more susceptible to the mind and Spirit of Christ than a bigoted and self-satisfied orthodoxy. The Lord responded to the request, and he abode there two days. Why should a biographer of the second century have limited this visit to "two days," when it is obvious that he passes over months in silence? It would have been as easy to say "two months" as to say "two days," and, to ordinary human judgment, more natural. These "two days" left an ineffaceable memory on the heart of one at least of these disciples, and the mention of it has upon the face of it the mark of historicity.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 40. So when the Samaritans were come. They insisted…
40. So when the Samaritans were come. They insisted that he should tarry with them. A strange invitation for a Samaritan village to give to a Jew. It was also a strange thing for a Jewish teacher to accept the invitation.
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