John 4
4
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 Now when Jesus* knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was gaining and baptising more disciples than John 2 (although, in reality, Jesus Himself was not baptising, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed once more for Galilee. 4 And He was obliged to pass through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 And there was Jacob’s well. So Jesus, being weary from the journey, was sitting precisely so by the well. It was approximately the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” * 8 (For His disciples had departed into the city to buy food.) 9 And the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water to drink, since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no association with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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. From where then do You get that living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus responded and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks of the water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for all time; * rather, the water which I will give to him will become within him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty nor come here to draw.” 16 He said to her, “ Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman responded and said to Him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have spoken rightly: ‘I do not have a husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now is not your husband. This you have spoken in truth.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I can perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but You assert that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father is seeking such people to worship Him. 24 God is spirit, and it is necessary for those who worship Him to worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming—the One called Christ. When that One comes, He will declare everything to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I, the One speaking to you, am He.
27 And at this point, His disciples came and were wondering that He was talking with a woman. However, no one said, “What are You seeking?” or “Why are You talking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went away into the city and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could this be the Christ?” 30 They went out from the city and were coming to Him.
31 During this interval, the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you are not aware of.” 33 So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to bring His work to completion. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are already white for harvest. 36 The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this, the saying is true: ‘One sows, while another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have entered into their work.”
39 Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything which I have done.” 40 When, therefore, the Samaritans came to Him, they began to urge Him to stay with them. And He stayed there for two days. 41 And many more believed on account of His word; 42 and they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of what you said do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this man* is truly the Saviour of the world.”
43 And after the two days, He departed from that place into Galilee. 44 (For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own native town.) 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen everything He had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they themselves had also gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals the Regal Officer’s Child
Μt. 8:5-13; Lk. 7:1-10
46 So He* came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. Now in Capernaum, there was a certain regal officer whose son was ill. 47 Upon hearing that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, this man went to Him and began to ask that He come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. 48 Jesus, therefore, said to him, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” 49 The regal officer said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he took his leave. 51 And as he was going down, his servants met him, saying that his child was living. 52 Then he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better, and they said to him, “Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realised that it was that same hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and his whole household. 54 Now this was again the second sign Jesus performed following His arrival from Judea into Galilee.
Notes
1 Some ancient manuscripts replace Jesus with Lord
7 Greek Give me to drink
14 Greek to the age
42 The word man is not found in the Greek text but is contextually implied. It is supplied in the translation for clarity regarding the subject. So also v. 47
46 Some ancient manuscripts read Jesus
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