John 4
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Jesus Goes to Galilee
1So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), 3He left Judea and returned again to Galilee. 4Now #4:4 Jesus went through Samaria to show that He is the Savior of all people.He had to go through #4:4 Samaria was centrally located between Judea (south) and Galilee (north). The Jews despised Samaritans because they were Jews who had intermarried with non-Jews and followed a heretical religion. Most Jews traveled out of their way to avoid Samaria.Samaria. 5So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).
The Samaritan Woman
7Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”— 8For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food— 9The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a #4:9 The Jews considered Samaritan women ceremonially unclean.Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).” 11She said to Him, “Sir, #4:11 The woman’s response is due to the fact that “living water” was the normal description for running water. She probably thought that Jesus was referring to the underground water source that fed the well.You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12Are You greater than our father #4:12 Jacob (renamed Israel in Gen 32:28) was the son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham and father of the twelve sons who established the twelve tribes of Israel.Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?” 13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”
15The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor [have to continually] come all the way here to draw.” 16At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your #4:18 God does not regard cohabitation as marriage. Marriage is a binding, legal covenant between a man and a woman.husband. You have said this truthfully.” 19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem [at the temple].” 21Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers. 24God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ—the Anointed); when that One comes, He will tell us everything [we need to know].” 26Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah).”
27Just then His disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. However, no one said, “What are You asking about?” or, “Why are You talking to her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people, 29“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done! Can this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?” 30So the people left the city and were coming to Him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus [to have a meal], saying, “Rabbi (Teacher), eat.” 32But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?” 34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work. 35Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest. 36Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”
The Samaritans
39Now many Samaritans from that city believed in Him and trusted Him [as Savior] because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days. 41Many more believed in Him [with a deep, abiding trust] because of His word [His personal message to them]; 42and they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for [now] we have heard Him for ourselves and know [with confident assurance] that this One is truly the Savior of [all] the world.”
43After the two days He went on from there into Galilee. 44For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans #4:45 In view of John’s wording in v 44 (For Jesus Himself declared…), the Galileans evidently were very interested in His miracles, but did not recognize or regard Jesus as their source of salvation.welcomed Him, since they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they too came to the feast.
Healing a Nobleman’s Son
46So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a #4:46 Probably an official of Herod Antipas.certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he #4:47 Capernaum to Cana was about eighteen miles.went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you [people] see [miraculous]signs and wonders, you [simply] will not believe.” 49The royal official pleaded with Him, “Sir, do come down [at once] before my child dies!” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home. 51As he was already going down [the road], his servants met him and reported that his son was living [and was healthy]. 52So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour (1 p.m.) the fever left him.” 53Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives”; and he and his entire household believed and confidently trusted [in Him as Savior]. 54This is the second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed [in Cana] after He had come from Judea to Galilee [revealing that He is the Messiah].
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John 4
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A Samaritan Woman Meets Jesus at a Well
1Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John. 2(Actually, Jesus was not baptizing people. His disciples were.) 3So he left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.
4Jesus had to go through Samaria. 5He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus sat down by the well because he was tired from traveling. The time was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman went to get some water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” 8(His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.)
9The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can a Jewish man like you ask a Samaritan woman like me for a drink of water?” (Jews, of course, don’t associate with Samaritans.)
10Jesus replied to her, “If you only knew what God’s gift is and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink. He would have given you living water.”
11The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have anything to use to get water, and the well is deep. So where are you going to get this living water? 12You’re not more important than our ancestor Jacob, are you? He gave us this well. He and his sons and his animals drank water from it.”
13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. 14But those who drink the water that I will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give them will become in them a spring that gushes up to eternal life.”
15The woman told Jesus, “Sir, give me this water! Then I won’t get thirsty or have to come here to get water.”
16Jesus told her, “Go to your husband, and bring him here.”
17The woman replied, “I don’t have a husband.”
Jesus told her, “You’re right when you say that you don’t have a husband. 18You’ve had five husbands, and the man you have now isn’t your husband. You’ve told the truth.”
19The woman said to Jesus, “I see that you’re a prophet! 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that people must worship in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus told her, “Believe me. A time is coming when you Samaritans won’t be worshiping the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You don’t know what you’re worshiping. We ⌞Jews⌟ know what we’re worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. 23Indeed, the time is coming, and it is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for people like that to worship him. 24God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us everything.” (Messiah is the one called Christ.)
26Jesus told her, “I am he, and I am speaking to you now.”
27At that time his disciples returned. They were surprised that he was talking to a woman. But none of them asked him, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people, 29“Come with me, and meet a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” 30The people left the city and went to meet Jesus.
31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, have something to eat.”
32Jesus told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33The disciples asked each other, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”
34Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
35“Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested. 36The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together. 37In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’ 38I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.”
39Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days. 41Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said. 42They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.”
A Believing Official
(Matthew 8:5–13; Luke 7:1–10)
43After spending two days in Samaria, Jesus left for Galilee. 44Jesus had said that a prophet is not honored in his own country. 45But when Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people of Galilee welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done at the festival in Jerusalem, since they, too, had attended the festival.
46Jesus returned to the city of Cana in Galilee, where he had changed water into wine. A government official was in Cana. His son was sick in Capernaum. 47The official heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee. So he went to Jesus and asked him to go to Capernaum with him to heal his son who was about to die.
48Jesus told the official, “If people don’t see miracles and amazing things, they won’t believe.”
49The official said to him, “Sir, come with me before my little boy dies.”
50Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and left.
51While the official was on his way to Capernaum, his servants met him and told him that his boy was alive. 52The official asked them at what time his son got better. His servants told him, “The fever left him yesterday evening at seven o’clock.” 53Then the boy’s father realized that it was the same time that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So the official and his entire family became believers.
54This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he had come back from Judea to Galilee.
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