JOHN 4:39-42 NKJV

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. And many more believed because of His own word.

Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

JOHN 4:39-42 NKJV

John 4:39–41 The Samaritans readily believed in (Gk. pisteuō eis) Him. The Judeans rejected the testimony of their own Scriptures, John the Baptist, and Christ’s miracles and teachings. The Samaritans accepted the testimony of an outcast woman. Sometimes God uses the most unlikely source to accomplish His work, while those who should have been at the forefront of the work of God fail to follow Him.

John 4:42 The title Savior of the world is used only here and in 1 John 4:14. The Judeans of Jesus’ day taught that to approach God one first had to be a Jew. By including this incident in the Gospel, John demonstrates that Jesus is for all people of the world.