{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[],"2":[],"3":[{"id":"henry.JHN.3.5.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 3:5","href":"/jhn/3/#v5-henry","text":"Isa. xliv. 3","snippet":"The Spirit is compared to water, ch. vii. 38, 39; Isa. xliv. 3."},{"id":"henry.JHN.4.10.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 4:10","href":"/jhn/4/#v10-henry","text":"xliv. 3","snippet":"Under this similitude the blessings of the Messiah had been promised in the Old Testament, Isa. xii. 3; xxxv. 7; xliv. 3; lv. 1; Zech. xiv. 8."},{"id":"henry.JHN.7.38.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 7:38","href":"/jhn/7/#v38-henry","text":"Isa. xliv. 3","snippet":"… scripture hath said, seem to refer to some promise in the Old Testament to this purport, and there are many; as that God would pour out his Spirit, which is a metaphor borrowed from waters (Prov. i. 23; Joel ii. 28; Isa. xliv. 3; Zech. xii. 10); that the dry land should become springs of water (Isa. xli. 18); that there should be rivers in the desert (Isa. xliii. 19); that gracious souls should be like a spring of water (Isa. lviii. 11); and …"},{"id":"ryle.JHN.7.38.3","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 7:38","href":"/jhn/7/#v38-ryle","text":"xliv. 3","snippet":"The passages to which our Lord referred, and the substance of which He gives, are probably Isai. xii. 3; xxxv. 6, 7; xli. 18; xliv. 3; lv. 1; lviii. 11; Zech. xiv. 8, 16."}],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.15.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:15","href":"/jhn/1/#v15-henry","text":"Isa. xliv. 6","snippet":"The First is one of God's names, Isa. xliv. 6."}],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[],"23":[],"24":[],"25":[],"26":[{"id":"henry.JHN.8.29.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 8:29","href":"/jhn/8/#v29-henry","text":"Isa. xliv. 26","snippet":"This greatly emboldens our faith in Christ and our reliance upon his word that he had, and knew he had, his Father with him, to confirm the word of his servant, Isa. xliv. 26."}],"27":[],"28":[]}}