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John 4:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
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Quick Meaning
This verse serves as the tenth turn in Jesus Names Her History and Reframes Worship, where it preserves speech that redirects the scene or presses its claim: “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things”.
Read It With
- John 4:16-26
Read John 4:25 with 4:16-26. This verse serves as the tenth turn in Jesus Names Her History and Reframes Worship, where it preserves speech that redirects the scene or presses its claim: “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things”. The controlling movement is: Jesus asks the woman to call her husband, discloses her complex marital history, receives her worship question, affirms salvation from the Jews, and announces worship in Spirit and truth before identifying himself as Messiah.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This verse serves as the tenth turn in Jesus Names Her History and Reframes Worship, where it preserves speech that redirects the scene or presses its claim: “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things”. As the tenth turn in Jesus Names Her History and Reframes Worship, it shows why the surrounding response belongs at this point: Jesus asks the woman to call her husband, discloses her complex marital history, receives her worship question, affirms salvation from the Jews, and announces worship in Spirit and truth before identifying himself as Messiah.
What Remains True
This verse serves as the tenth turn in Jesus Names Her History and Reframes Worship, where it preserves speech that redirects the scene or presses its claim: “The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things”. Its enduring force supports this passage-controlled response: Tell truth without inventing shame, and let worship in Spirit and truth deepen rather than erase the Jewish story through which John presents salvation.
How It Can Shape Life
- For John 4:25, practice this verse's particular contribution by doing the following without outrunning John 4:16-26: Tell truth without inventing shame, and let worship in Spirit and truth deepen rather than erase the Jewish story through which John presents salvation.
Continue in Context
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Read John 4:16-26 — Jesus Names Her History and Reframes WorshipSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: John 4:16-26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, sentence relations, and critical-text reading checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/John.txt, 4:16-26
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NET Bible — John with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level syntax, older-English clarification, material variants, background, and alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible John PDF, John 4:16-26 and attached translator, study, and textual notes
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