John 4
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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John. 2(Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did.) 3So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee; 4on his way there he had to go through Samaria.
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Gen 33.19; Josh 24.32 In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” 8(His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
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Ezra 4.1–5; Neh 4.1–2 The woman answered, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan — so how can you ask me for a drink?” (Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.)#4.9 Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use; or Jews will have nothing to do with Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, “If only you knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water.”
11“Sir,” the woman said, “you haven't got a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water? 12It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his sons and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?”
13Jesus answered, “All those who drink this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring which will provide him with life-giving water and give him eternal life.”
15“Sir,” the woman said, “give me that water! Then I will never be thirsty again, nor will I have to come here to draw water.”
16 “Go and call your husband,” Jesus told her, “and come back.”
17“I haven't got a husband,” she answered.
Jesus replied, “You are right when you say you haven't got a husband. 18You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth.”
19“I see you are a prophet, sir,” the woman said. 20“My Samaritan ancestors worshipped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.”
21Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. 23But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God's Spirit people will worship the Father as he really is, offering him the true worship that he wants. 24God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.”
25The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah will come, and when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26Jesus answered, “I am he, I who am talking with you.”
27At that moment Jesus' disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”
28Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there, 29“Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” 30So they left the town and went to Jesus.
31In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, “Teacher, have something to eat!”
32But he answered, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33So the disciples started asking among themselves, “Could somebody have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do. 35You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! 36The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together. 37The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’ 38I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.”
39Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.
41Many more believed because of his message, 42and they said to the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Saviour of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
43After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee. 44#Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24For he himself had said, “A prophet is not respected in his own country.” 45#Jn 2.23When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.
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Jn 2.1–11
Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. 48Jesus said to him, “None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.”
49“Sir,” replied the official, “come with me before my child dies.”
50Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live!”
The man believed Jesus' words and went. 51On his way home his servants met him with the news, “Your boy is going to live!”
52He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, “It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.” 53Then the father remembered it was at that very hour that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his family believed.
54This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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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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