This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
3. Christ being weary finds it necessary to sit down to rest himself by Jacob's well, John 4:5-6, spent with fatigue and hunger. How energetic was this fatigue? how active was this rest! Nothing can happen to Christ in vain-nothing can turn him out of the way of his mercy-his great work he continues to carry on, without the smallest interruption, where we would have thought it must have been necessarily suspended.