John 4
4
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
1Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and #ch. 3:22, 26baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3he left Judea and departed #ch. 2:11, 12again for Galilee. 4#[Luke 13:33]And he had to pass through Samaria. 5So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field #ver. 12; Gen. 33:19; 48:22; Josh. 24:32that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, #ch. 19:28; [Matt. 4:2; 8:24; 21:18]wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.#4:6 That is, about noon
7A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, #[See ver. 6 above]“Give me a drink.” 8(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (#Luke 9:53; [ch. 8:48; Ezra 4:3, 10]; See Matt. 10:5For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew 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 #ch. 7:38; Jer. 2:13; 17:13living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12#[ch. 8:53] Are you greater than our father Jacob? #ver. 5He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but #[ch. 6:35, 51, 58; 7:37] whoever drinks of the water that I will give him #[Isa. 49:10; Rev. 7:16] will never be thirsty again.#4:14 Greek forever The water that I will give him will become #ch. 7:38in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir, #[ch. 6:34]give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, #ch. 16:8call your husband, and come here.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that #ch. 9:17; [ch. 6:14] you are #Luke 7:16, 39; See Matt. 21:11a prophet. 20#Gen. 12:6, 7; 33:18, 20; Deut. 11:29; 27:12; Josh. 8:33 Our fathers worshiped on #Judg. 9:7 this mountain, but you say that #See Deut. 12:5 in Jerusalem is #[ch. 11:48]the place where people ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, #ch. 2:4 “Woman, believe me, #ver. 23; ch. 5:25, 28; 16:2, 25, 32 the hour is coming when #Zeph. 2:11; Mal. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22#[2 Kgs. 17:28-34; Acts 17:23] You worship what you do not know; #Ps. 147:19, 20; Isa. 2:3; Rom. 3:1, 2; 9:4, 5 we worship what we know, for #Ps. 147:19, 20; Isa. 2:3; Rom. 3:1, 2; 9:4, 5 salvation is #Matt. 2:4, 5; Acts 13:23; Rom. 11:26from the Jews. 23But #ver. 21 the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father #[Rom. 8:15; Eph. 2:18; 6:18; Phil. 3:3] in spirit and #Ps. 145:18; [ch. 1:17] truth, for the Father #[ch. 6:44]is seeking such people to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to him, “I know that #See ch. 1:41 Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, #Deut. 18:18; [ver. 29]he will tell us all things.” 26Jesus said to her, #ch. 9:35-37“I who speak to you am he.”
27Just then #ver. 8his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29“Come, see a man #ver. 17, 18; [ver. 25]who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30They went out of the town and were coming to him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, #See ch. 1:38“Rabbi, eat.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, #[ver. 11, 15; ch. 3:4; 6:34, 52]“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34Jesus said to them, #[Job 23:12] “My food is #ch. 5:30; 6:38; 14:31 to do the will of him who sent me and #ch. 5:36; 17:4to accomplish his work. 35Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that #Matt. 9:37; Luke 10:2; [ver. 25, 30]the fields are white for harvest. 36Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that #[Matt. 13:37; Mark 4:14] sower and #ver. 38 reaper #Isa. 9:3; [Amos 9:13]may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, #[Job 31:8]‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap #Josh. 24:13 that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, #[Acts 8:5-17, 25]and you have entered into their labor.”
39Many Samaritans #ver. 5, 8 from that town believed in him #[ch. 17:20] because of #ver. 29the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed #ch. 8:30because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, #[1 John 5:20] and we know that this is indeed #1 John 4:14; [ch. 3:17; 12:47; 1 Tim. 4:10] the Savior #See ch. 1:29of the world.”
43After #ver. 40the two days he departed for Galilee. 44(For Jesus himself had testified #See Matt. 13:57that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, #ch. 2:23; 3:2 having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For #ver. 20they too had gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
46So he came again to #ch. 2:1 Cana in Galilee, #ch. 2:9where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47When this man heard that Jesus #ver. 3, 54had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48So Jesus said to him, #ch. 2:18; 6:30; [ch. 20:29]“Unless you#4:48 The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49The official said to him, “Sir, come down #[ch. 11:21, 32; Mark 5:35; Luke 8:49]before my child dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51As he was going down, his servants#4:51 Or bondservants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour#4:52 That is, at 1 p.m. the fever left him.” 53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, #Acts 16:34; 18:8; See Acts 11:14and all his household. 54#[ch. 2:11 with ver. 45, 46]This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
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John 4
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A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
1Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and #John 3:22, 26; 1 Cor. 1:17baptized more disciples than John 2(though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4But He needed to go through Samaria.
5So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that #Gen. 33:19; Josh. 24:32Jacob #Gen. 48:22; Josh. 4:12gave to his son Joseph. 6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For #Acts 10:28Jews have no dealings with #2 Kin. 17:24; Matt. 10:5, 6; Luke 9:52; 10:33; 17:16; John 8:48Samaritans.
10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the #(Rom. 5:15)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 #Is. 12:3; 44:3; Jer. 2:13; Zech. 13:1; 14:8; John 7:38living water.”
11The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14but #(John 6:35, 58)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him #John 7:37, 38will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15#John 6:34, 35; 17:2, 3; (Rom. 6:23; 1 John 5:20)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19The woman said to Him, “Sir, #Matt. 21:11; Luke 7:16, 39; 24:19; John 6:14; 7:40; 9:17I perceive that You are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on #Gen. 12:6–8; 33:18, 20; Judg. 9:7this mountain, and you Jews say that in #Deut. 12:5, 11; 1 Kin. 9:3; 2 Chr. 7:12; Ps. 122:1–9Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming #(Mal. 1:11); 1 Tim. 2:8when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22You worship #(2 Kin. 17:28–41)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for #(Is. 2:3; Luke 24:47; Rom. 3:1; 9:4, 5)salvation is of the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will #Matt. 18:20; (Heb. 13:10–14)worship the Father in #Phil. 3:3spirit #(John 1:17)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24#2 Cor. 3:17God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah #Deut. 18:15is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, #John 4:29, 39He will tell us all things.”
26Jesus said to her, #Dan. 9:25; Matt. 26:63, 64; Mark 14:61, 62“I who speak to you am He.”
The Whitened Harvest
27And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29“Come, see a Man #John 4:25who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34Jesus said to them, #Ps. 40:7, 8; Heb. 10:9“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to #Job 23:12; (John 6:38; 17:4; 19:30)finish His work. 35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes #Gen. 8:22the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, #Matt. 9:37; Luke 10:2for they are already white for harvest! 36#Dan. 12:3; Rom. 6:22And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that #1 Thess. 2:19both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37For in this the saying is true: #1 Cor. 3:5–9‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; #Jer. 44:4; (1 Pet. 1:12)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
The Savior of the World
39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him #John 4:29because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of His own #Luke 4:32; (John 6:63)word.
42Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for #John 17:8; 1 John 4:14we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Welcome at Galilee
43Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44For #Matt. 13:57; Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, #John 2:13, 23; 3:2having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; #Deut. 16:16for they also had gone to the feast.
A Nobleman’s Son Healed
46So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee #John 2:1, 11where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48Then Jesus said to him, #John 6:30; Rom. 15:19; 1 Cor. 1:22; 2 Cor. 12:12; (2 Thess. 2:9); Heb. 2:4“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.
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