约翰福音 4
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
生命的活水
4 主知道法利賽人聽見他收門徒和施洗比約翰更多( 2 其實不是耶穌親自施洗,而是他的門徒施洗), 3 就離開了猶太,再往加利利去。 4 他必須經過撒瑪利亞。 5 於是到了撒瑪利亞的一座城,名叫敘加;這城靠近雅各給他兒子約瑟的那塊地。 6 在那裡有雅各井。耶穌因為旅途疲倦了,就坐在井旁;那時大約正午。
7 有一個撒瑪利亞婦人來打水。耶穌對她說:“請給我水喝。” 8 那時,他的門徒都進城買食物去了。 9 撒瑪利亞婦人對耶穌說:“你是猶太人,怎麼向我,一個撒瑪利亞婦人要水喝呢?”(原來猶太人和撒瑪利亞人不相往來。) 10 耶穌回答她:“你若知道 神的恩賜,和對你說‘請給我水喝’的是誰,你必早已求他,他也必早把活水賜給你了。” 11 婦人說:“先生,你沒有打水的器具,井又深,你從哪裡得活水呢? 12 我們的祖先雅各把這口井留給我們,他自己和子孫以及牲畜都喝這井的水,難道你比他還大嗎?” 13 耶穌回答:“凡喝這水的,還要再渴; 14 人若喝我所賜的水,就永遠不渴。我所賜的水要在他裡面成為湧流的泉源,直湧到永生。” 15 婦人說:“先生,請把這水賜給我,使我不渴,也不用來這裡打水。”
必須用心靈按真理敬拜 神
16 耶穌說:“你去,叫你的丈夫,然後回到這裡來。” 17 婦人對他說:“我沒有丈夫。”耶穌說:“你說‘沒有丈夫’是不錯的。 18 你以前有五個丈夫,現在有的並不是你的丈夫;你說這話是真的。” 19 婦人說:“先生,我看出你是先知。 20 我們的祖先在這山上敬拜 神,而你們卻說,敬拜的地方必須在耶路撒冷。” 21 耶穌說:“婦人,你應當信我,時候將到,那時你們敬拜父,不在這山上,也不在耶路撒冷。 22 你們敬拜你們所不知道的,我們卻敬拜我們所知道的,因為救恩是從猶太人出來的。 23 然而時候將到,現在就是了,那用心靈按真理敬拜父的,才是真正敬拜的人;因為父在尋找這樣敬拜他的人。 24 神是靈,敬拜他的必須藉著靈按真理敬拜他。” 25 婦人說:“我知道那稱為基督的彌賽亞要來;他來了,要把一切都告訴我們。” 26 耶穌說:“我這現在跟你說話的就是他。”
27 正在這時候,門徒回來了,見耶穌和一個婦人說話,就很希奇;但是沒有人問:“你要甚麼?”或說:“你為甚麼跟她說話?” 28 那婦人撇下了她的水罐,進到城裡去,對眾人說: 29 “你們來,看看一個人,他把我所作的一切都說出來,難道這人就是基督嗎?” 30 眾人就出城,往耶穌那裡去。
莊稼已經熟了
31 當時,門徒對耶穌說:“拉比,請吃。” 32 耶穌說:“我有食物吃,是你們所不知道的。” 33 門徒就彼此說:“難道有人拿東西給他吃了嗎?” 34 耶穌說:“我的食物就是遵行差我來者的旨意,並且完成他的工作。 35 你們不是說‘還有四個月才到收穫的時候’嗎?我告訴你們,舉目向田觀看,莊稼已經熟了,可以收割了。 36 收割的人得到工資,也積儲五穀直到永生,使撒種的和收割的一同快樂。 37 ‘這人撒種,那人收割’,這話是真的。 38 我派你們去收割你們所沒有勞苦的;別人勞苦,你們卻享受他們勞苦的成果。”
39 因著那婦人作見證的話:“他把我所作的一切都說出來了”,那城裡就有許多撒瑪利亞人信了耶穌。 40 於是他們來到耶穌那裡,求他和他們同住,耶穌就在那裡住了兩天。 41 因著耶穌的話,信他的人就更多了。 42 他們就對那婦人說:“現在我們信,不再是因為你的話,而是因為我們親自聽見了,知道這位真是世人的救主。”
治好大臣的兒子
43 兩天之後,耶穌離開那裡,往加利利去。 44 耶穌自己說過:“先知在本鄉是不受尊敬的。” 45 耶穌到了加利利的時候,加利利人都歡迎他,因為他們曾經上耶路撒冷去過節,見過他所行的一切。
46 耶穌又到了加利利的迦拿,就是他變水為酒的地方。有一個大臣,他的兒子在迦百農患病。 47 他聽見耶穌從猶太到了加利利,就來見他,求他下去醫治他的兒子,因為他的兒子快要死了。 48 耶穌對他說:“你們若看不見神蹟奇事,總是不肯信。” 49 大臣說:“先生,求你趁我的孩子還沒有死就下去吧!” 50 耶穌告訴他:“回去吧,你的兒子好了。”那人信耶穌對他說的話,就回去了。 51 正下去的時候,他的僕人迎著他走來,說他的孩子好了。 52 他就向僕人查問孩子是甚麼時候好轉的。他們告訴他:“昨天下午一點鐘,熱就退了。” 53 這父親就知道,那正是耶穌告訴他“你的兒子好了”的時候,他自己和全家就信了。 54 這是耶穌從猶太回到加利利以後所行的第二件神蹟。
Juan 4
La Biblia de las Américas
La mujer samaritana
4 Por tanto, cuando el Señor(A) supo que los fariseos habían oído que Él[a] hacía y bautizaba(B) más discípulos que Juan 2 (aunque Jesús mismo no bautizaba(C), sino sus discípulos(D)), 3 salió de Judea(E) y partió otra vez para Galilea(F). 4 Y tenía que pasar por Samaria(G). 5 Llegó*, pues, a una ciudad de Samaria(H) llamada Sicar, cerca de la parcela de tierra que Jacob dio a su hijo José(I); 6 y allí estaba el pozo de Jacob. Entonces Jesús, cansado del camino, se sentó[b] junto al pozo. Era como la hora sexta[c]. 7 Una mujer de Samaria vino* a sacar agua, y Jesús le dijo*: Dame de beber. 8 Pues sus discípulos(J) habían ido a la ciudad(K) a comprar alimentos. 9 Entonces la mujer samaritana(L) le dijo*: ¿Cómo es que tú, siendo judío, me pides de beber a mí, que soy samaritana? (Porque los judíos no tienen tratos con los samaritanos(M).) 10 Respondió Jesús y le dijo: Si tú conocieras el don de Dios, y quién es el que te dice: «Dame de beber», tú le habrías pedido a Él, y Él te hubiera dado agua viva(N). 11 Ella le dijo*: Señor, no tienes con qué sacarla, y el pozo es hondo; ¿de dónde, pues, tienes esa agua viva(O)? 12 ¿Acaso eres tú mayor que nuestro padre Jacob, que nos dio el pozo(P) del cual bebió él mismo, y sus hijos, y sus ganados? 13 Respondió Jesús y le dijo: Todo el que beba de esta agua volverá a tener sed, 14 pero el que beba del agua que yo le daré, no tendrá sed jamás(Q), sino que el agua que yo le daré se convertirá en él en una fuente de agua que brota para vida eterna(R). 15 La mujer le dijo*: Señor, dame esa agua, para que no tenga sed(S) ni venga hasta aquí a sacarla. 16 Él le dijo*: Ve, llama a tu marido y ven acá. 17 Respondió la mujer y le dijo: No tengo marido. Jesús le dijo*: Bien has dicho: «No tengo marido», 18 porque cinco maridos has tenido, y el que ahora tienes no es tu marido; en eso has dicho la verdad. 19 La mujer le dijo*: Señor, me parece que tú eres profeta(T). 20 Nuestros padres adoraron(U) en este monte(V), y vosotros decís que en Jerusalén(W) está el lugar donde se debe adorar. 21 Jesús le dijo*: Mujer, créeme; la hora viene(X) cuando ni en este monte ni en Jerusalén adoraréis al Padre(Y). 22 Vosotros adoráis lo que no conocéis(Z); nosotros adoramos lo que conocemos, porque la salvación viene[d] de los judíos(AA). 23 Pero la hora viene, y ahora es(AB), cuando los verdaderos adoradores adorarán al Padre en espíritu(AC) y en verdad; porque ciertamente a los tales el Padre busca que le adoren. 24 Dios es espíritu[e], y los que le adoran deben adorarle en espíritu(AD) y en verdad. 25 La mujer le dijo*: Sé que el Mesías(AE) viene (el que es llamado Cristo(AF)); cuando Él venga nos declarará todo. 26 Jesús le dijo*: Yo soy(AG), el que habla contigo.
27 En esto llegaron sus discípulos(AH) y se admiraron de que hablara con una mujer, pero ninguno le preguntó: ¿Qué tratas de averiguar? o: ¿Por qué hablas con ella? 28 Entonces la mujer dejó su cántaro, fue a la ciudad y dijo* a los hombres: 29 Venid, ved a un hombre que me ha dicho todo lo que yo he hecho(AI). ¿No será este el Cristo[f](AJ)? 30 Y salieron de la ciudad e iban a Él. 31 Mientras tanto, los discípulos le rogaban, diciendo: Rabí[g](AK), come. 32 Pero Él les dijo: Yo tengo para comer una comida que vosotros no sabéis. 33 Los discípulos(AL) entonces se decían entre sí: ¿Le habrá traído alguien de comer? 34 Jesús les dijo*: Mi comida es hacer la voluntad del que me envió(AM) y llevar a cabo su obra(AN). 35 ¿No decís vosotros: «Todavía faltan cuatro meses, y después viene la siega»? He aquí, yo os digo: Alzad vuestros ojos y ved los campos que ya están blancos para la siega(AO). 36 Ya el segador recibe salario(AP) y recoge fruto(AQ) para vida eterna(AR), para que el que siembra se regocije juntamente con el que siega. 37 Porque en este caso el dicho es verdadero: «Uno es el que siembra y otro el que siega(AS)». 38 Yo os envié a segar lo que no habéis trabajado; otros han trabajado y vosotros habéis entrado en su labor.
39 Y de aquella ciudad(AT), muchos de los samaritanos creyeron en Él por la palabra de la mujer que daba testimonio, diciendo: Él me dijo todo lo que yo he hecho(AU). 40 De modo que cuando los samaritanos vinieron a Él, le rogaban que se quedara con ellos; y se quedó allí dos días. 41 Y muchos más creyeron por su palabra, 42 y decían a la mujer: Ya no creemos por lo que tú has dicho[h], porque nosotros mismos le hemos oído, y sabemos que este es en verdad el Salvador del mundo(AV).
43 Después de los dos días(AW), salió de allí para Galilea. 44 Porque Jesús mismo dio testimonio de que a un profeta no se le honra en su propia tierra(AX). 45 Así que cuando llegó a Galilea, los galileos le recibieron, pues habían visto todo lo que hizo en Jerusalén durante la fiesta(AY); porque ellos también habían ido a la fiesta.
Curación del hijo de un oficial del rey
46 Entonces vino otra vez a Caná de Galilea(AZ), donde había convertido el agua en vino(BA). Y había allí cierto oficial del rey cuyo hijo estaba enfermo en Capernaúm(BB). 47 Cuando él oyó que Jesús había venido de Judea a Galilea(BC), fue a su encuentro y le suplicaba que bajara y sanara a su hijo, porque estaba al borde de la muerte. 48 Jesús entonces le dijo: Si no veis señales[i] y prodigios(BD), no creeréis. 49 El oficial del rey le dijo*: Señor, baja antes de que mi hijo muera. 50 Jesús le dijo*: Vete, tu hijo vive. Y el hombre creyó la palabra que Jesús le dijo y se fue(BE). 51 Y mientras bajaba, sus siervos le salieron al encuentro y le dijeron que su hijo[j] vivía. 52 Entonces les preguntó a qué hora había empezado a mejorar. Y le respondieron: Ayer a la hora séptima[k] se le quitó[l] la fiebre. 53 El padre entonces se dio cuenta que fue a la hora en que Jesús le dijo: Tu hijo vive. Y creyó él y toda su casa(BF). 54 Esta[m] fue la segunda señal[n](BG) que Jesús hizo cuando fue de Judea a Galilea(BH).
Footnotes
- Juan 4:1 Lit., Jesús
- Juan 4:6 Lit., se sentó así
- Juan 4:6 I.e., las doce del día
- Juan 4:22 Lit., es
- Juan 4:24 O, Dios es un Espíritu
- Juan 4:29 I.e., el Mesías
- Juan 4:31 O, Maestro
- Juan 4:42 O, por tus palabras
- Juan 4:48 O, milagros
- Juan 4:51 O, muchacho
- Juan 4:52 I.e., la una de la tarde
- Juan 4:52 Lit., le dejó
- Juan 4:54 Lit., Y esta de nuevo
- Juan 4:54 O, un segundo milagro
John 4
New Catholic Bible
The Savior of the World and the New Worship
Chapter 4
Journeying to Galilee through Samaria.[a] 1 Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been informed that he had more disciples and was baptizing more people than John 2 (although actually it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who were baptizing), 3 he left Judea and set forth for Galilee.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman.[b] 4 He had to pass through Samaria.[c] 5 So he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar,[d] near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[e]
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the town to purchase food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew. How can you ask me, a Samaritan woman,[f] for some water to drink?” (Jews do not share anything in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied,
“If you recognized the gift of God
and who it is that is asking you for something to drink,
you would have asked him
and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you do not have a bucket, and the well is deep.[g] Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself along with his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus said to her,
“Everyone who drinks this water
will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks the water that I will give him
will never be thirsty.
The water that I will give him
will become a spring of water within him
welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I may not be thirsty and have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,[h] but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus told her,
“Believe me, woman,
the 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 do know,
for salvation is from the Jews.
23 “But the hour is coming,
indeed it is already here,
when the true worshipers
will worship the Father
in Spirit and truth.[i]
Indeed it is worshipers like these
that the Father seeks.
24 God is Spirit,
and those who worship him
must worship in Spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will reveal everything to us.”[j] 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he,[k] the one who is speaking to you.”
27 At this point, his disciples returned, and they were astonished to find him speaking with a woman, but no one asked, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you conversing with her?” 28 The woman left behind her water jar and went off to the town, where she said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?” 30 And so they departed from the town and made their way to see him.
31 The Time of the Harvest.[l] Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he told them,
“I have food to eat
about which you do not know.”
33 Then his disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will
of the one who sent me,
and to accomplish his work.
35 Do you not have a saying,
‘Four months more,
and then comes the harvest’?
“I tell you,
open your eyes and look at the fields;
already they are white for the harvest.
36 The reaper is even now receiving his pay;
already he is gathering the crops for eternal life
so that the sower and the reaper can rejoice together.
37 “Thus, the saying holds true,
‘One sows and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap
what you had not worked for.
Others have performed the work,
and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
39 Jesus Is Truly the Savior of the World.[m] Many Samaritans from that town came to believe in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they pleaded with him to stay with them, and he remained there for two days. 41 And many more began to believe in him because of the words he spoke to them. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe simply because of what you said, for we have heard him for ourselves, and we are convinced that this man is truly the Savior of the world.”
43 Return to Galilee.[n] When the two days were over, Jesus departed for Galilee. 44 He himself had declared that a prophet is not treated with honor in his own hometown. 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, having been at the feast themselves.
46 Jesus Heals the Official’s Son.[o] He went again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. At Capernaum, there was a royal official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and pleaded that he come and heal his son who was near death.
48 Jesus said to him, “Unless you witness signs and wonders, you will not believe.” 49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus replied, “Return home. Your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and he departed. 51 While he was still on his way, his servants met him saying that his child was going to live. 52 He asked them at what time the boy had begun to recover, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon.”[p] 53 Then the father realized that was the exact hour at which Jesus had assured him, “Your son will live,” and he and his entire household came to believe.
54 This was the second sign that Jesus performed after returning from Judea into Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:1 Jesus is forced to leave Judea in order to distance himself from the hostility of the Pharisees who are jealous of his growing popularity. The journey through Samaria affords him an opportunity to proclaim the Gospel in a mission land, so to speak, for the Samaritans were tantamount to Gentiles in the eyes of the Jews.
- John 4:4 Jesus converses with a woman, a daughter of Samaria, and therefore belonging to what the Jews considered to be a heretical breed and as accursed as the Gentiles; in addition, she is well known as a sinner. But God’s gift is for everyone. Jesus is the living water, and for peoples dwelling on the edge of the wilderness, living water symbolizes life, hope, renewal, and spiritual riches.
Jesus urges the new worship of God as Father “in Spirit and truth.” This means to pray to the Father in the Holy Spirit and in Jesus who is the truth. Such worship springs up from the heart; it comes from the Spirit. - John 4:4 The inhabitants of Samaria were a mixed race, descended from the intermarriage of Israelites and Assyrian colonists. Although they worshiped the same God as the Jews and believed in the Pentateuch, they disowned the Jerusalem temple and priesthood and erected a rival sanctuary on Mount Gerizim in the 4th century B.C. (see 2 Mac 6:2).
- John 4:5 Sychar was in the neighborhood of ancient Shechem. See Gen 33:18-20; 48:21f.
- John 4:6 Noon: literally, “the sixth hour.” See note on Mk 15:25.
- John 4:9 Samaritan woman: characterized as ritually unclean by the Jews, who were therefore forbidden to drink from any vessel handled by them.
- John 4:11 Well is deep: the depth of the well, which still exists, has not been determined. The estimates given over the centuries range from 240 feet to 150 feet to 75 feet (the most recent).
- John 4:20 This mountain: Gerizim (2,849 feet high, south of Sychar).
- John 4:23 In Spirit and truth: the Spirit is the Holy Spirit and the truth is Jesus. For he is the true Son of God.
- John 4:25 The Samaritan Messiah was called the Ta’eb. He revealed the secrets of God to his people. Jesus reveals to us how much God loves us.
- John 4:26 I am he: this phrase may also be translated as “I AM,” the name Yahweh used for himself in the Old Testament (see note on Mk 6:50). The phrase “I am” is used in the text of this Gospel 23 times (4:26; 6:20, 35, 41, 48, 51; 8:12, 18, 24, 28, 58; 10:7, 9, 11, 14; 11:25; 13:19; 14:6; 15:1, 5; 18:5, 6, 8). In several of these passages, Jesus joins the phrase with seven significant metaphors that express his saving relationship toward the world: “I am the bread of life” (Jn 6:35, 41, 48, 51). “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12). “I am the gate of the sheepfold” (Jn 10:7, 9). “I am the good shepherd” (Jn 10:11, 14). “I am the resurrection and the life” (Jn 11:25). “I am the way and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6). “I am the true vine” (Jn 15:1, 5).
- John 4:31 Jesus is not thinking of an ordinary harvest. The arrival of the Samaritans announces the crops of the end time, the harvest in which all will be gathered together by the coming of God. Samaritans wore white robes: they are the harvest.
- John 4:39 The personal and prolonged encounter with Jesus allows believers to measure the magnitude of their mission. This Jewish teacher is not only a prophet who announces salvation. He is the Messiah who brings about salvation for the whole world, for all human beings.
- John 4:43 Jesus’ stay in Galilee and his ministry in his own town will not be crowned by a more satisfactory success than the one in Judea, the heart of Judaism. With this sad reflection, the fourth evangelist confirms a saying of the Lord found in Mt 13:57 and parallels.
- John 4:46 Jesus shows the price of faith (believing in the Word) to his unbelieving companions (v. 44) even though they had already seen him at work. Faith, and it alone, is necessary to be saved. To believe is to welcome in Jesus the salvation that God gives. The miracle is first of all a response to faith. Then it sheds light on the man’s faith and makes it strong. The cure is reported less to bring a demonstration of faith than to call upon us to believe. This account may be a third version of the cure of the centurion’s son (Mt 8:5-13) or servant (Lk 7:1-10).
- John 4:52 One o’clock in the afternoon: literally, “the seventh hour.” See note on Mk 15:25.
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