John - 4:30



30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

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Explanation and meaning of John 4:30.

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They left the town and set out to go to Him.
So they went out of the town and came to him.
And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

They went out of the city - The men of the city left it and went to Jesus, to hear and examine for themselves.

They went out of the city - Such effect had the simple testimony of the woman on their minds.
And came unto him - Or, Were coming to him; for they did not reach him immediately; all that discourse between him and his disciples, mentioned John 4:31-39, inclusive, having taken place before the people of Sychar got to the well. See John 4:40.

Then they went out of the city,.... "The men", as the Syriac version expresses it; the inhabitants of Sychar left their business, and came out of the city:
and came unto him; to Christ, to see him, and converse with him, that they might know who he was: for though the woman had been a woman of ill fame, yet such was the account that she gave of Christ, and such power went along with her words, that what with the strangeness of the relation, and the curiosity with which they were led, and chiefly through the efficacy of divine grace, at least in many of them, they were moved to regard what she said, and to follow her directions and solicitations.

Then they went out, &c.--How different from the Jews! and richly was their openness to conviction rewarded.

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