John 4:26

I that speak. The way had been fully prepared for this startling revelation, which brought the conversation to an abrupt close. Had Jesus not manifested supernatural knowledge of her life (see on vs. 17-19), and had she not already acknowledged Him to be “a prophet”? Thinking of Deut. 18:15, 18, she had expressed the belief that when the Messiah came He would “tell us all things” (John 4:25), and now this “prophet” declared Himself to be the Messiah. Naturally she concluded: He is not only “a prophet,” but the Prophet whom Moses foretold.