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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John 4
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1When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), 3he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4And he must needs pass through Samaria. 5So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: 6and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. 9The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? 13Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. 15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw. 16Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: 18for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. 19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. 22Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. 24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (which is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. 26Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her? 28So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men, 29Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ? 30They went out of the city, and were coming to him. 31In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. 32But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat? 34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest. 36He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour. 39And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. 40So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word; 42and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
43And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee. 44For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. 45So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. 46He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe. 49The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. 50Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way. 51And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived. 52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. 54This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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