<p>4:40 <i>So when the Samaritans came to him, they pleaded with him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days</i>- Coming to Jesus in John's Gospel means to believe in Him. They wanted Him to &quot;stay&quot; or &quot;abide&quot; with them, a common theme in John of the Lord abiding in the hearts of believers. They are set up as model converts, in whom the Lord 'abode' after conversion. As John's Gospel later explains, this is achieved by Him through His Spirit, which means that He is present as really as if He were physically present with us. His abiding by the Spirit is a sign of acceptance, and His abiding with them at a time when a Jew like Peter could not go inside the home of a Gentile was surely a public indication of His acceptance of Gentiles. Peter and others who so objected to such fellowship after His resurrection were clearly forgetting, wilfully, the implication of such incidents.</p>