Many of the Samaritans of that city believed. — The willingness to receive the truth on the part of the Samaritans, is contrasted with the rejection of it on the part of the Jews. They refused the witness of a great prophet; these accept the witness of a woman. Their minds were prepared by the general expectation of the Messiah; and this woman witnesses that Jesus had revealed to her the whole past of her life. There is here a sign they do not question.
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John 4:39
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.