John 4
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1Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was. 2But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
3Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4This time he had to go through Samaria, 5#Gn 33.19; Js 24.32. and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph. 6-8The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from traveling. It was noon, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.
Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”
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Ezra 4.1-5; Ne 4.1,2. “You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”#4.9 won't have anything to do with each other: Or “won't use the same cups.” The Samaritans lived in the land between Judea and Galilee. They worshiped God differently from the Jews and did not get along with them.
10Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”
11“Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water? 12Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”
13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again. 14But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give will become in that person a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”
15The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.”
16Jesus told her, “Go and bring your husband.”
17-18The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.”
“That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”
19The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20My ancestors worshiped on this mountain,#4.20 this mountain: Mount Gerizim, near the city of Shechem. but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.”
21Jesus said to her:
Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. 23But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshipers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him. 24God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.
25The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26“I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.”
27The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
28The woman left her water jar and ran back into town, where she said to the people, 29“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?” 30Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.
31While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.”
32But Jesus told them, “I have food you don't know anything about.”
33His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
34Jesus said:
My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do. 35You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.
36Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. 37So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.” 38I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.
39A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.” 40They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.
41Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say. 42They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Savior of the world!”
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
(Matthew 8.5-13; Luke 7.1-10)
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Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24. Jesus had said, “Prophets are honored everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left 45#Jn 2.23. and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.
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Jn 2.1-11. While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick. 47And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.
48Jesus told the official, “You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!”
49The man replied, “Lord, please come before my son dies!”
50Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and started back home.
51Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, “Your son is better!” 52He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”
53The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.
54This was the second miracle#4.54 miracle: See the note at 2.11. that Jesus worked after he left Judea and went to Galilee.
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John 4
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Yeshua Offers Living Water
1Now Yeshua knew that the Pharisees heard that He was making and immersing more disciples than John.
2(Although Yeshua Himself was not immersing, His disciples were.)
3So He left Judea and went back again to the Galilee.
4But He needed to pass through Samaria.
5So He comes to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. So Yeshua, exhausted from the journey, was sitting by the well. It was midday.
7A Samaritan woman comes to draw water. “Give me a drink,” Yeshua tells her,
8for His disciples had gone away to the town to buy food.
9Then the Samaritan woman tells Him, “How is it that You, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jewish people don’t deal with Samaritans.)
10Yeshua replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11“Sir,” the woman tells Him, “You don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep. Then from where do You get this living water?
12You’re not greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us this well. He drank out of it himself, with his sons and his cattle.”
13Yeshua replied to her, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.
14But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty. The water that I give him will become a fountain of water within him, springing up to eternal life!”
15“Sir,” the woman tells Him, “give me this water, so I won’t get thirsty or have to come all the way here to draw water!”
16He tells her, “Go call your husband, and then come back here.”
17“I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Yeshua tells her, “You’ve said it right, ‘I have no husband.’
18For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you have now isn’t your husband. This you’ve spoken truthfully!”
19“Sir,” the woman tells Him, “I see that You are a prophet!
20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you all say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Yeshua tells her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23But an hour is coming—it is here now—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people as His worshipers.
24God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman tells Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called the Anointed One.) When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26Yeshua tells her, “I—the One speaking to you—I am.”
Ready for Harvest
27At this moment, His disciples came back. They were amazed that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You speaking with her?”
28So the woman left her water jar and went back to the town. She tells the people,
29“Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! He couldn’t be the Messiah, could He?”
30The people left the town and began coming to Him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples were pressing Him, “Rabbi, eat!”
32But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33So the disciples were saying to each other, “No one brought Him food to eat, did they?”
34Yeshua tells them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
35Don’t you say, ‘Four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields! They are white and ready for harvest.
36“The reaper receives a reward and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper may rejoice together.
37For the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have worked hard, and you have joined in their work.”
39Many of the Samaritans from that town put their trust in Him because of the word of the woman testifying, “He told me everything I ever did!”
40So when the Samaritans came to Him, they kept asking Him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,
41and many more believed because of His word.
42They kept telling the woman, “It’s no longer because of your words that we believe. We’ve heard for ourselves! Now we know that this really is the Savior of the world!”
Life for a Dying Son
43After the two days, He went on from there into the Galilee.
44Now Yeshua Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45But when He came into the Galilee, they welcomed Him. For they had seen all He had done at the feast in Jerusalem, since they also had gone up to celebrate.
46So He went again to Cana of the Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was a nobleman whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47When he heard that Yeshua had come from Judea to the Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die.
48Then Yeshua said to him, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you’ll never believe!”
49The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50Yeshua tells him, “Go! Your son lives!” The man believed the word that Yeshua said to him and started off.
51While on his way down, his servants met him, saying that his son was living.
52So he asked them the hour when the boy began to get better. They said, “The fever left him yesterday at about the seventh hour.”
53Then the father realized that it was the same hour Yeshua said to him, “Your son lives!” Now he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54Yeshua did this as the second sign, after He had come again from Judea into the Galilee.
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