God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Gill's Exposition
God is a spirit,.... Or "the Spirit is God"; a divine person, possessed of all divine perfections, as appears from his names, works, and worship ascribed unto him; See Gill on Joh 4:23; though the…
Barnes' Notes
God is A spirit - This is the second reason why men should worship him in spirit and in truth. By this is meant that God is without a body; that he is not material or composed of parts; that he is…
Adam Clarke
God is a Spirit - This is one of the first, the greatest, the most sublime, and necessary truths in the compass of nature! There is a God, the cause of all things - the fountain of all perfection -…
We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of…
Cambridge Bible
God is spirit, and must be approached in that part of us which is spirit, in the true temple of God, -which temple ye are." Even to the chosen three Christ imparts no truths more profound than these.…
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