The woman said, “I know that the Messiah is coming.” (Messiah is the One called Christ. {\cf2\super [66]})“When the Messiah comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Jacob was the father of Joseph.\par Joseph was the husband of Mary,\par and Mary was the mother of Jesus.\par Jesus is called the Christ. {\cf2\super [6]} \par
All the people gathered at Pilate’s house. Pilate asked the people, “I will free one man for you. Which man do you want me to free: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Christ {\cf2\super [427]} ?”
Many of the Samaritan {\cf2\super [68]} people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about Jesus. She had told them, “He (Jesus) told me everything I have ever done.”
The people said to the woman, “First we believed in Jesus because of what you told us. But now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know now that he really is the one that will save the world.”