John 4:27. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman.
How big they were, how wise in their own conceit, to be astonished that Christ was talking with a woman! The followers of Christ often get much too big for their places, and too big to please their Master, too. Though "they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman," as the Revised Version translates it,--
John 4:27. Yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
They dared not do that; they had too much awe of him. But, do you know, I have often wished that they had done so? I should like to have read what Christ would have said to them. How he would have reproved them for thinking that he had degraded himself by talking with a woman, or with anybody. Our Saviour would have vindicated woman’s place in the world in a way that one might have liked to have heard.
John 4:27. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman.
How big they were, how wise in their own conceit, to be astonished that Christ was talking with a woman! The followers of Christ often get much too big for their places, and too big to please their Master, too. Though "they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman," as the Revised Version translates it,--
John 4:27. Yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
They dared not do that; they had too much awe of him. But, do you know, I have often wished that they had done so? I should like to have read what Christ would have said to them. How he would have reproved them for thinking that he had degraded himself by talking with a woman, or with anybody. Our Saviour would have vindicated woman’s place in the world in a way that one might have liked to have heard.