John 4:24 (BSB)
God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
Commentary on John 4:24
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on John 4:24: 24. God is a Spirit. This is a confirmation drawn from the very nature of God. Since men are flesh, we ought not to wonder, if they take delight in those things which correspond to their own disposition. Hence it arises, that they contrive many things in the worship of God which are full of display, but have no solidity.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on John 4:4-26: 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 those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themselves.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on John 4:24: 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 Arabic and Persic versions, and others, read as we do, "God is a spirit"; that is, God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: for taking the words in this light, not...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on John 4:24: Verse 24. 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 invisible, in every place, pure and holy.