34. *For he whom God* (the Father) *hath sent* (*as His Son*, verse 35), as the Messias, *speaketh the words of God, for God doth not give the spirit by measure*. The contrast is between the abundant gift of the Spirit to Christ, as man, and the stinted participation of the same Spirit by those who are merely of the earth (Rom. xii. 3; 1 Cor. xii. 14). The sense, then, is, that the gifts of the Holy Spirit were poured out in abundance on Christ as man; that “He unceasingly possessed them all at once to the greatest extent of which human nature is capable” (M’Ev.); and this plenitude of the gifts of the Holy Ghost within Him is the reason why He speaks the words of God. 35. Pater diligit Filium: et 35. The Father loveth the Son: omnia dedit in manu eius. and he hath given all things into his hand. 35. This plenitude of the Spirit in Christ, this fulness of grace and truth (i. 16, 17), in Christ as man, is the effect of the love of the Father for His Incarnate Son, which love has also caused the Father to grant to Christ, as _man_, the _bestowal_ (He hath given all things *into His hand*) of all the gifts of the Spirit required for the salvation of men. 36. Qui credit in Filium habet 36. He that believeth in the vitam aeternam: qui autem Son, hath life everlasting: incredulus est Filio, non but he that believeth not the videbit vitam, sed ira Dei Son, shall not see life, but manet super eum. the wrath of God abideth on him. 36. Since, then, Jesus Christ has been constituted our help unto salvation, he that believes _in Him_ as Son of God (and acts accordingly) hath eternal life begun in him by justification; he that believeth not, &c. See verse 18. This splendid testimony of the Baptist in favour of Christ was intended to detach his disciples from himself, and win them to Christ, of whom, as we learn from verse 26, they had shown themselves jealous. CHAPTER IV. 1‐4. *Jesus sets out from Judea to Galilee.* 5‐26. *Arrival in Sichar, and discourse with the Samaritan woman.* 27‐38. *Discourse with the disciples.* 39‐42. *Stay with the people of Sichar.* 43‐54. Continuation of the journey into Galilee, and healing of the ruler’s son. 1. Ut ergo cognovit Iesus quia 1. When Jesus therefore audierunt pharisaei quod Iesus understood that the Pharisees plures discipulos facit, et had heard that Jesus maketh baptizat, quam Ioannes, more disciples, and baptizeth _more_ than John, 1. *When Jesus therefore understood*, &c. Christ is spoken of as if on this occasion He gained knowledge of which He had been ignorant, because though, as God, He knew all things, every inmost thought of the Pharisees, yet, _as man_, like other men, He gathered knowledge from His fellow‐men. See Mald.