Day 4 of 21
John 4
Jesus offers living water to a Samaritan woman, revealing himself as Messiah; many Samaritans believe, and he heals an official's dying son.
Traveling from Judea to Galilee through Samaria, Jesus crosses ethnic and social boundaries with the gospel.
“The Evangelist, after relating how John checked the envy of his disciples, on the success of Christ’s teaching, comes next to the envy of the Pharisees, and Christ’s retreat front the them. When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard, &c.”
“Truly had the Pharisees’ knowledge that our Lord was making more disciples, and baptizing more than John, been such as to lead them heartily to follow Him, He would not have left Judea, but would have remained for their sake: but seeing, as He did, that this knowledge of Him was coupled with envy, and made them not followers, but persecutors, He departed thence. He could too, had He pleased, have stayed amongst them,…”
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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