John 4:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For Jesus himself testified, &c.— It is plain that this is spoken as the reason why he rather chose to travel into those parts of Galilee, than to go directly to Nazareth, which is particularly called his own country, in distinction from Galilee, and even from Capernaum. Luke 4:23. The time when Jesus made the testimony in this verse, is not limited; for the tense of the verb εμαρτυρησεν, testified, is used in a vague sense, and applied to things past, present, and future; the testimony therefore might have been given some time after, without the least impeachment of the sacred historian's order. See Matthew 13:57.