It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel’s land , not only the place of his birth, but the scene of his preaching and miracles.

We read of Christ’s coming into Judea , after he had kept the feast at Jerusalem; and now he left Judea four months before harvest, as is said here ; so that it is computed that he staid in Judea about six months, to build upon the foundation John had laid there.

We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with…

We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman. I. The interruption given to this discourse by the disciples’ coming.

In these verses we have, I. Christ’s coming into Galilee, John 4:43. Though he was as welcome among the Samaritans as he could be any where, and had better success, yet after two days he left them, not so much because they were Samaritans, and he would not confirm those in their prejudices against…