John 4:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Upon this came his disciples Who, as was said before, were gone into the city to buy food; and marvelled that he talked with the woman Or rather (as the word γυναικος is without the article) with a woman, which the Jewish rabbies reckoned it scandalous for a man of distinction to do. And that the disciples were not, in such things, superior to the prejudices of their countrymen, is manifest from the whole of their history. They marvelled likewise at his talking with a woman of that nation, which was so peculiarly hateful to the Jews. Yet no man said to the woman, What seekest thou? Or to Christ, Why talkest thou with her?

John 4:27

27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?