Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
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Gill's Exposition
Say not ye, there are yet four months,.... Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover:
and then cometh…
Barnes' Notes
Say not ye - This seems to have been a proverb. Ye say - that is, men say. Four months and ... - The common time from sowing the seed to the harvest, in Judea, was about “four months.” The meaning of…
Adam Clarke
There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? - In Palestine, the harvest did not begin till after the passover, which was fixed on the 14th of the month Nisan, which answers to our March, and…
We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman.
I. The interruption given to this discourse by the disciples'…
Cambridge Bible
Say not ye The pronoun is again emphatic.
There are yet four months, &c. This cannot be a proverb. No such proverb is known; and a proverb on the subject would have to be differently shaped; e.g.…