Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Come [ deute (G1205 )], see a man which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
х meeti (G3385) houtos (G3778) estin (G1510) ho (G3588) Christos (G5547)] The grammatical form of this question, which expects a negative answer, requires that it should be rendered, 'Is this'-or rather, 'Can this be the Christ?' The woman put it thus, as if they would naturally reply, 'Impossible.' But beneath that modest way of putting it was the conviction, that if they would but come and judge for themselves, she would have no need to obtrude upon them any opinions of hers-which she well knew would appear unworthy of attention.
Thus, by asking if this could possibly be the Christ-and so, rather asking to be helped by them than pretending to be their teacher-she in reality drew their attention to the point, in the least offensive and yet most effectual way. Observe, too, how she confines herself to the marvel of His disclosing to her the particulars of her own life, without touching on what He had said of Himself. If the woman's past life was known to the Sycharites-as who can doubt it was, in so small a place?-this would at once disarm their prejudices and add weight to her statement. How exquisitely natural is all this! Up to our Lord's last words her attention had been enchained, and her awe deepened; and certainly the last disclosure was fitted to hold her faster to the spot than ever. But the arrival of strangers made her feel that it was time for her to withdraw; and He who knew what was in her heart, and what she was going to the city to do, having said all to her that she was then able to bear, let her go without exchanging a word with her in the hearing of others. Their interview was too sacred, and the effect on the woman too overpowering (not to speak of His own deep emotion), to allow of its being continued. But this one artless touch-that she "left her water-pot" - speaks volumes. The living water was already beginning to spring up within her; she found that man doth not live by bread nor by water only, and that there was a water of wondrous virtue that raised people above meat and drink, and the vessels that held them, and all human things. In short, she was transported, forgot everything but one, or felt that her water-pot now would be an encumbrance; and her heart running over with the tale she had to tell, she hastens home and pours it out.