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The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
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Verse 25. I know that the Messias cometh. So that even the Samaritans, at that time, expected the coming of the great Messias. Witham.
Ver 26. Jesus saith to her: I am he. Christ was pleased to own this truth in the plainest terms to this Samaritan woman, having first by his words, and more by his grace, disposed her heart to believe it. Witham.
“Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.
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