Γύναι, πίστευσόν μοι … τῷ πατρί. One of the greatest announcements ever made by our Lord; and made to one sinful woman, cf. John 20:16. ἔρχεται ὥρα a time is coming; in John 4:23 καὶ νῦν ἐστίν is added. A great religious revolution has arrived. Localism in worship is abolished, οὔτε ἐν τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ, etc., “neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem,” exclusively or preferentially, “shall ye worship the Father”. What determines this “hour”? The manifestation of God in Christ, and the principle announced in John 4:24 and implied in τῷ πατρί; for God being absolutely “the Father” all men in all places must have access to Him, and being of a like nature to man's He can only receive a spiritual worship. Cf. Acts 17:29.

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