John 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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JOHN CHAPTER 4 1 Thessalonians 4:1-26 Christ talketh with a woman of Samaria, and revealeth himself unto her. 1 Thessalonians 4:27-30 His disciples marvel; the woman calleth the men of her city to see him. 1 Thessalonians 4:31-38 Christ showeth his own zeal to do God's work, and the blessedness of his disciples, who were to reap the fruit of his labours. 1 Thessalonians 4:39-42 Many Samaritans believe on him. 1 Thessalonians 4:43-54 He goeth into Galilee, and healeth a nobleman's son who lay sick at Capernaum. Our Saviour knew as God, from that omniscience which is inseparable from the Divine nature, or as man, by the relation of others, that the Pharisees, (who had the greatest stroke in the sanhedrim), and the government of the church of the Jews, had received an information concerning him, that he had, by his doctrine which he preached, and confirmed by miraculous operations, made and (by his disciples) baptized more disciples than John, thereby initiating them into a new church.

John 4:1

1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,