Passage Research
John 4 — Sermon Preparation
Jesus speaks with a Samaritan woman at a well about living water and true worship, then heals a royal official's dying son. Below is a research summary for John 4, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 54
- verses
- 936 / 217
- Greek words / lemmas
- 43
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
John 4 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| γυνή | gynḗ | G1135 | 12 | wife, woman |
| προσκυνέω | proskynéō | G4352 | 9 | worship |
| ὕδωρ | hýdōr | G5204 | 9 | water |
| Γαλιλαία | Galilaía | G1056 | 6 | Galilee |
| πίνω | pínō | G4095 | 6 | drink |
| πιστεύω | pisteúō | G4100 | 7 | believe, commit, put in trust with |
| ὥρα | hṓra | G5610 | 6 | day, hour, instant, season |
How preachers through history handled this text
43 public-domain excerpts on John 4, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places of temptation but when we needs must; and then must not dwell in them, but hasten through them. We have here our Lord Jesus under the common fatigue of travellers. Thus we see that he was truly a man. Toil came in with sin; therefore Christ, having made himself a curse for us, submitted to it. Also, he was a poor man, and went all his journeys on foot. Being wearied, he sat thus on the well; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on John 4:4–26 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— John 4:20
- Mount Gerizim— John 4:20
- Galilee 1— John 4:3
- Judea 1— John 4:3
- Samaria 2— John 4:4
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