John 4:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,

New Living Translation (©2007)
The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone,

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men, "

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And the woman left her cruse and went to the city and said to the men:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,

American King James Version
The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,

American Standard Version
So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:

Darby Bible Translation
The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

English Revised Version
So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men,

Webster's Bible Translation
The woman then left her waterpot, and went into the city, and saith to the men,

Weymouth New Testament
The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.

World English Bible
So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

Young's Literal Translation
The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The woman then left her water pot,.... Her pail, or bucket, she brought with her to the well to draw water in: this she left, either for Christ and his disciples to make use of; or rather through forgetfulness, her mind being greatly impressed, and her thoughts much taken up with what Christ had said to her, and she being in haste to acquaint others with it: so the disciples left their nets, their business, their friends, and all for Christ; and so the saints are brought to quit their earthly and worldly things for the sake of Christ, and his Gospel. The Ethiopic version renders it, "she left her disputation": she left off discoursing with Christ upon the disciples coming to him.

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Vincent's Word Studies

Water-pot

See on John 2:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Left her water-pot - Her mind was greatly excited. She was disturbed, and hastened to the city in great agitation to make this known. She seems to have been convinced that he was the Messiah, and went immediately to make it known to others. Our first business, when we have found the Saviour, should be to make him known also to others.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Left her waterpot - She was so penetrated with the great truths which Jesus had announced that she forgot her errand to the well, and returned to the city without the water for which she came out!

Geneva Study Bible

The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

Wesley's Notes

4:28 The woman left her water pot - Forgetting smaller things.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28-30. left her water-pot-How exquisitely natural! The presence of strangers made her feel that it was time for her to withdraw, and He who knew what was in her heart, and what she was going to the city to do, let her go without exchanging a word with her in the hearing of others. Their interview was too sacred, and the effect on the woman too overpowering (not to speak of His own deep emotion) to allow of its being continued. But this one artless touch-that she "left her water-pot"-speaks volumes. The living water was already beginning to spring up within her; she found that man doth not live by bread nor by water only, and that there was a water of wondrous virtue that raised people above meat and drink, and the vessels that held them, and all human things. In short, she was transported, forgot everything but One, and her heart running over with the tale she had to tell, she hastens home and pours it out.

John 4:28 Parallel Commentaries
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The Disciples Return and Marvel
27And on this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her? 28The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? …

John 4:27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
John 4:29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?"