John 4
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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1When Jesus#4:1 Other mss read the Lord learned that the Pharisees#Mk 7:3 had heard he was making#Mt 28:19–20 and baptizing more disciples than John#Mk 1:4 2(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3he left Judea#Lk 1:5 and went again to Galilee.#Mt 17:22 4He had to travel through Samaria;#Ac 1:8 5so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property#4:5 Lit piece of land that Jacob#Ps 22:23; Mt 1:2; Lk 1:33 had given his son Joseph.#Gn 30:24; 33:19; 48:22; 49:22 6Jacob’s well#Jms 3:11 was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.#4:6 Lit about the sixth hour
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water.#Gn 24:11–17; 29:2–12
“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9“How is it that you, a Jew,#Jn 11:36; Ac 14:1; Rv 2:9 ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan#Lk 9:52; Ac 1:8 woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with#4:9 Or do not share vessels with Samaritans.#4:9 Other mss omit For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God,#Ac 8:20 and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”#Gn 26:19; Ps 36:7–9; Is 49:10; 55:1; Jr 2:13; Zch 14:8; Jn 7:38; Rv 7:17; 21:6; 22:1,17
11“Sir,”#Lk 10:1 said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? 12You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,#Mt 1:2; Lk 1:33 are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”
13Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.#Jn 6:35; 7:37; 1Co 4:11; Rv 7:16; 21:6; 22:17 In fact, the water I will give him will become a well#4:14 Or spring#Jms 3:11 of water springing up in him for eternal life.”#Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48; Rm 8:2; 1Jn 2:25
15“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
16 “Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.”
17“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said. 18“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,#Dt 11:29–12:14; 27:3; Jos 24:1 but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”#Mt 23:37
21Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.#Gn 12:1–7; Is 2:3; Mal 1:11; Mt 15:24; Jn 11:36; Rm 3:1–2; 9:4–5; 15:8–9 23But an hour is coming, and is now here,#Jn 5:25–29; 16:32 when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.#4:23 Or in spirit and truth, also in v. 24 Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him. 24God is spirit,#Jn 1:33; 2Th 2:10; Jd 20 and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”#2Th 2:10
25The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 is coming” (who is called Christ#Ex 29:29; Jn 1:41). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26Jesus told her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”#Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 8:24
The Ripened Harvest
27Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, 29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” #Mt 1:17 30They left the town and made their way to him.#Mk 1:45
31In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi,#Jn 11:8 eat something.”
32But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34 “My food is to do the will of him #
Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 who sent me#Jn 5:30 and to finish his work,”#Jn 5:36 Jesus told them. 35“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open#4:35 Lit Raise your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready#4:35 Lit white for harvest. 36The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,#Mk 10:17; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48 so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. 37For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’#Lv 26:16; Dt 20:6; Jb 31:8; Mc 6:15; Mt 25:24; Lk 19:21 38I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from#4:38 Lit you have entered into their labor.”
The Savior of the World
39Now many Samaritans#Lk 9:52; Ac 1:8 from that town believed in him because of what the woman said#4:39 Lit because of the woman’s word when she testified,#Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5 “He told me everything I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him,#Mk 1:45 they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41Many more believed because of what he said.#4:41 Lit because of his word 42And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior#2Pt 3:18 of the world.”#4:42 Other mss add , the Messiah
A Galilean Welcome
43After two days he left there for Galilee.#Is 9:1–2; Mt 17:22 44(Jesus himself had testified#Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5 that a prophet has no honor in his own country.#Mt 13:57; Mk 6:4; Lk 4:24) 45When#Mt 4:17; Mk 1:14–15 they entered Galilee, the Galileans#Mt 26:69; Mk 14:70; Lk 13:1–2; 22:59; 23:6; Ac 1:11; 2:7; 5:37 welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem#Mt 23:37 during the festival.#Jn 2:23; 5:1 For they also had gone to the festival.
The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son
46He went again to Cana#Jn 2:1,11; 21:2 of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.#Lk 10:15 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea#Lk 1:5 into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.
48Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,#Ex 7:3–4; Mk 13:22; Jn 2:23–25; 6:26 you will not believe.”#Jn 3:16; 6:64; 20:25
49“Sir,”#Lk 10:1 the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what#4:50 Lit the word Jesus said to him and departed.
51While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. 52He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon#4:52 Lit at the seventh hour the fever left him,” they answered. 53The father#Lk 11:11; Col 3:21 realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54Now this was also the second sign#Jn 2:11 Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.#Mt 17:22
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Yochanan 4
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1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Yeshua was making and immersing more disciples than Yochanan 2(although Yeshua himself didn’t immerse, but his disciples), 3he left Judea and departed into Galilee. 4He needed to pass through Samaria. 5So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.#4:6 noon
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Yeshua said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10Yeshua answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
13Yeshua answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
16Yeshua said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Yeshua said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21Yeshua said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Messiah.#4:25 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
26Yeshua said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
27 Just then, his disciples came. They marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” 28So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, 29“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Messiah?” 30They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
34Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.”
39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 41Many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.”
43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. 44For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. 45So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. 46Yeshua came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47When he heard that Yeshua had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48Yeshua therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50Yeshua said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Yeshua spoke to him, and he went his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” 52So he enquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,#4:52 1:00 p.m. the fever left him.” 53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Yeshua said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. 54This is again the second sign that Yeshua did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
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