ACC ~ John 4 v40

JESUS REMAINS WITH THOSE WHO ASK

ORIGEN: John has not written that the Samaritans “asked him” to enter Samaria or to enter the city but “to remain with them.”… In what follows he does not say, “And he remained in that city two days” or “he remained in Samaria” but “he remained there,” that is, with those who asked. For Jesus remains with those who ask, and especially when those who ask him come out of their city and come to Jesus, as if in imitation of Abraham when he obeyed God who said, “Go forth out of your country and from your kindred, and out of your father’s house.” [1] COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 13.345-46. [2]

[1] Gen 12:1.

[2] FC 89:142-43; SC 222:224.