Chapter 4:39-45 The Samaritans

4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

Many of the Samaritans - believed on him for the saying of the woman - This woman was the first apostle of Christ in Samaria! 

She went and told her fellow citizens that the Messiah was come; and gave for proof, that He had told her the most secret things she had ever done:

4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto Him, they besought Him that He would tarry with them: and He abode there two days.
So when the Samaritans were come unto Him -The Ethiopic version reads, all the Samaritans; they came to Him at Jacob's well, upon the woman's solicitations, and the account she gave of this extraordinary person: and after they had conversed with Him, and heard Him themselves, they were taken with His divine discourses, and being thoroughly persuaded that He was the Messiah,

4:41 And many more believed because of His own word;
Because of His own word; - which came to them, not in word only, but in power, and was the power of God unto salvation to them; and was received by them, not as the word of man, but as the word of God;

4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
for we have heard Him ourselves; - not only externally with their bodily ears, but internally, having ears given them to hear, so as to understand what He said; 

--to mix it with faith, 

--and receive it in love; 

--to feel the power of it in their hearts, 

--and taste the sweetness of it, 

and be nourished by it; and so as to distinguish His voice from another's, as Christ's true sheep are capable of.

4:43 Now after two days He departed thence, and went into Galilee.
and went into Galilee; - as He first intended;

4:44 For Jesus Himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.
Jesus Himself testified - He bore testimony to the general truth of the following proverb.

4:45 Then when He was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

The Galileans received Him - They received Him as the promised Messiah, because of the miracles which they had seen Him perform at Jerusalem, at the Passover.