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Selected Verse: John 4:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 4:3 |
King James |
He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
left Judea--to avoid persecution, which at that early stage would have marred His work.
departed into Galilee--by which time John had been cast into prison (Mar 1:14). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| He left Judea - The envy and malice of the Pharisees he might have known were growing so rapidly as to endanger his life. As his time to die had not yet come, he retired to Galilee, a country farther from Jerusalem, and much less under their control than Judea. See Mar 2:22; Luk 3:1. Though he feared not death and did not shrink from suffering, yet he did not needlessly throw himself into danger or provoke opposition. He could do as much good in Galilee, probably, as in Judea, and he therefore withdrew himself from immediate danger. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
He left (ἀφῆκε)
The verb means literally to send away, dismiss. It is used of forgiving offenses (Mat 6:14, note; Jam 5:15, note); of yielding up (Mat 27:50, note); of letting alone (Mat 19:14, note); of allowing or permitting (Luk 6:12, note). Its employment here is peculiar. Compare Joh 16:28, of Christ's leaving the world.
Again
See Joh 1:44. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| He left Judea - To shun the effects of their resentment. |
14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: