约翰福音 4
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
耶稣与撒马利亚妇人
4 耶稣[a]知道，法利赛人听说他收门徒和施洗比约翰更多。 2 其实不是耶稣亲自施洗，而是他的门徒们施洗。 3 于是耶稣离开犹太地区，又前往加利利地区。 4 但他定要经过撒马利亚， 5 这样就来到了撒马利亚的一个城，叫叙加。这城靠近雅各给他儿子约瑟的那块地， 6 雅各井就在那里。耶稣因旅途劳累，就坐在井边。那时大约是中午十二点[b]。
7 有一个撒马利亚妇人来打水。耶稣对她说：“请给我一点水喝。” 8 那时，他的门徒们进城买食物去了。
9 撒马利亚妇人对他说：“你是犹太人，怎么向我一个撒马利亚妇人要水喝呢？”原来犹太人不和撒马利亚人来往。[c]
10 耶稣回答她，说：“如果你明白神的恩赐，也知道是谁对你说‘给我一点水喝’，你早就求他了，他也把活水给你了。”
11 妇人问：“先生，你没有打水的器具，井又深，你从哪里得来那活水呢？ 12 难道你比我们的先祖雅各更大吗？他给我们留下了这口井。他自己、他的子孙、他的牲畜都喝这井里的水！”
13 耶稣回答说：“所有喝这水的人，还会再渴。 14 但如果有人喝了我给他的水，就绝不干渴，直到永远。不但如此，我给他的水将要在他里面成为泉源，一直涌流到永恒的生命。”
15 妇人说：“先生，请给我那水，使我不渴，我也不用到这里来打水了。”
16 耶稣说：“去叫你的丈夫，再回到这里来。”
17 妇人回答说：“我没有丈夫。”
耶稣说：“你说你没有丈夫，这话没错。 18 其实你已经有过五个丈夫，你现在有的，不是你的丈夫。你说的是真的。”
19 妇人对他说：“先生，我看出你是先知！ 20 我们的祖先在这山上敬拜，而你们却说敬拜的地方必须在耶路撒冷。”
21 耶稣说：“妇人，你当相信我，时候就要到了！那时你们敬拜父，既不在这山上，也不在耶路撒冷。 22 你们敬拜你们所不认识的；我们却敬拜我们所认识的，因为救恩是出自犹太人的。 23 然而，时候就要到了，现在就是了！那时真正敬拜的人，要在灵里和真理中敬拜父，因为父就是想要这样的人来敬拜他。 24 神是灵，敬拜他的人必须在灵里和真理中敬拜。”
25 妇人说：“我知道那称为基督的弥赛亚要来。他来的时候，就会把一切都传讲给我们。”
26 耶稣说：“这和你说话的我，就是那一位。”
庄稼熟了
27 正在这时，他的门徒们回来了。他们见耶稣与一个妇人一同说话，就感到惊奇。只是没有人问“你想要什么？”或“你为什么与她说话？”
28 那妇人放下她的水罐，回到城里告诉人们说： 29 “你们来看！有个人把我过去所做的一切都说了出来，这个人会不会就是基督呢？” 30 大家就出城，来到耶稣那里。
31 这其间，门徒们劝耶稣说：“拉比，请吃。”
32 但耶稣说：“我有食物吃，是你们所不知道的。”
33 门徒彼此问：“难道有人拿东西来给他吃了吗？”
34 耶稣对他们说：“我的食物就是遵行那派我来者的旨意，并且完成他的工作。 35 你们不是说‘收割的季节还有四个月才到’吗？看哪，我告诉你们：举目向田里观望，庄稼已经成熟[d]，可以收割了！ 36 收割的人得酬报，收集果实归入永恒的生命，好使撒种的和收割的一同快乐。 37 实际上，这样的说法是真实的：‘一人撒种，另一个人收割。’ 38 我派你们去收你们未曾劳苦的；别人劳苦了，你们也进入了他们的劳苦中。”
救世主
39 当时，那城里有许多撒马利亚人信了耶稣。这是因为那妇人见证说：“他把我过去所做的一切都说了出来。” 40 这样，撒马利亚人来到耶稣那里的时候，请求他住在他们那里。于是耶稣在那里住了两天。 41 后来，因着耶稣的话，信的人就更多了。 42 他们告诉那妇人说：“现在我们信，不再是因为你的话，而是因为我们亲耳听到了，并且知道这一位真是世界的救主[e]。”
加利利人欢迎耶稣
43 两天后，耶稣离开了那里，前往加利利地区。 44 他曾亲自见证说，先知在自己的家乡得不到尊敬。 45 当耶稣来到加利利地区，加利利人就接受他，因为他们也曾经上耶路撒冷去过节，看到耶稣节日期间在那里所行的一切事。
治愈大臣的儿子
46 耶稣又来到加利利的迦拿，就是他把水变成酒的地方。有一个大臣，他的儿子在迦百农患了病。 47 这个人听说耶稣从犹太来到加利利，就到耶稣那里去，请求他下去治愈他的儿子，因为他的儿子快要死了。
48 耶稣对他说：“你们如果没有看见神迹和奇事，你们就绝不会信！”
49 那大臣对耶稣说：“先生，求你在我的孩子还没有死之前下来吧！”
50 耶稣对他说：“你回去吧，你的儿子活了！”那人相信耶稣的话，就回去了。
51 他正下去的时候，他的奴仆们迎着他来[f]，告诉他孩子活了。 52 他就问孩子好转的时间，他们说：“昨天下午一点[g]，烧就退了。” 53 这位父亲就知道，那正是耶稣说“你的儿子活了”的时间。于是他自己和全家人都信了。
54 这是耶稣从犹太回到加利利以后所行的第二件神迹。
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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