John 4:28
Douay-Rheims
The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
Origen
(tom. xiii. in Joan. c. 28) The woman is almost turned into an Apostle. So forcible are His words, that she leaves her waterpot to go to the city, and tell her townsmen of them. The woman then left her waterpot, i. e. gave up low bodily cares, for the sake of benefitting others. Let us do the same. Let us leave off caring for things of the body, and impart to others of our own.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:27-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.