John 4
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 When Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees(A) had heard he was making(B) and baptising more disciples than John(C) 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptising, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea(D) and went again to Galilee.(E) 4 He had to travel through Samaria;(F) 5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[b] that Jacob(G) had given his son Joseph.(H) 6 Jacob’s well(I) was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[c]
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.(J)
‘Give me a drink,’ Jesus said to her, 8 because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 ‘How is it that you, a Jew,(K) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan(L) woman? ’ she asked him. For Jews do not associate with[d] Samaritans.[e]
10 Jesus answered, ‘If you knew the gift of God,(M) and who is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would ask him, and he would give you living water.’(N)
11 ‘Sir,’(O) said the woman, ‘you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this “living water”? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,(P) are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.’
13 Jesus said, ‘Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.(Q) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well[f](R) of water springing up in him for eternal life.’(S)
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 and 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. 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain,(T) but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.’(U)
21 Jesus told her, ‘Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.(V) 23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,(W) when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[g] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit,(X) and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.’(Y)
25 The woman said to him, ‘I know that the Messiah(Z) is coming’ (who is called Christ(AA)). ‘When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’
26 Jesus told her, ‘I, the one speaking to you, am he.’(AB)
The Ripened Harvest
27 Just 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? ’
28 Then 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? ’(AC) 30 They left the town and made their way to him.(AD)
31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, ‘Rabbi,(AE) eat something.’
32 But he said, ‘I have food to eat that you don’t know about.’
33 The disciples said to one another, ‘Could someone have brought him something to eat? ’
34 ‘My food is to do the will of him(AF) who sent me(AG) and to finish his work,’(AH) 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[h] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[i] for harvest. 36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true: “One sows and another reaps.”(AJ) 38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t labour for; others have laboured, and you have benefited from[j] their labour.’
The Saviour of the World
39 Now many Samaritans(AK) from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[k] when she testified,(AL) ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ 40 So when the Samaritans came to him,(AM) they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. 41 Many more believed because of what he said.[l] 42 And 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 Saviour(AN) of the world.’[m]
A Galilean Welcome
43 After two days he left there for Galilee.(AO) 44 (Jesus himself had testified(AP) that a prophet has no honour in his own country.(AQ)) 45 When(AR) they entered Galilee, the Galileans(AS) welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem(AT) during the festival.(AU) For they also had gone to the festival.
The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son
46 He went again to Cana(AV) of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.(AW) 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea(AX) into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, ‘Unless you people see signs and wonders,(AY) you will not believe.’(AZ)
49 ‘Sir,’(BA) the official said to him, ‘come down before my boy dies.’
50 ‘Go,’ Jesus told him, ‘your son will live.’ The man believed what[n] Jesus said to him and departed.
51 While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. 52 He asked them at what time he got better. ‘Yesterday at one in the afternoon[o] the fever left him,’ they answered. 53 The father(BB) realised this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, ‘Your son will live.’ So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54 Now this was also the second sign(BC) Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.(BD)
Footnotes
- 4:1 Other mss read the Lord
- 4:5 Lit piece of land
- 4:6 Lit about the sixth hour
- 4:9 Or do not share vessels with
- 4:9 Other mss omit For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
- 4:14 Or spring
- 4:23 Or in spirit and truth, also in v. 24
- 4:35 Lit Raise
- 4:35 Lit white
- 4:38 Lit you have entered into
- 4:39 Lit because of the woman’s word
- 4:41 Lit because of his word
- 4:42 Other mss add, the Messiah
- 4:50 Lit the word
- 4:52 Lit at the seventh hour
Jean 4
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Jésus et la femme samaritaine
4 Le Seigneur sut que les pharisiens avaient appris qu’il faisait et baptisait plus de disciples que Jean. 2 Toutefois Jésus ne baptisait pas lui-même, mais c’étaient ses disciples. 3 Alors il quitta la Judée, et retourna en Galilée.
4 Comme il fallait qu’il passe par la Samarie, 5 il arriva dans une ville de Samarie, nommée Sychar[a], près du champ que Jacob avait donné à Joseph, son fils. 6 Là se trouvait le puits de Jacob. Jésus, fatigué du voyage, était assis au bord du puits. C’était environ la sixième heure[b].
7 Une femme de Samarie vint puiser de l’eau. Jésus lui dit: Donne-moi à boire. 8 Car ses disciples étaient allés à la ville pour acheter des vivres. 9 La femme samaritaine lui dit: Comment toi, qui es Juif, me demandes-tu à boire, à moi qui suis une femme samaritaine? – Les Juifs, en effet, n’ont pas de relations avec les Samaritains. – 10 Jésus lui répondit: Si tu connaissais le don de Dieu et qui est celui qui te dit: Donne-moi à boire! tu lui aurais toi-même demandé à boire, et il t’aurait donné de l’eau vive. 11 Seigneur, lui dit la femme, tu n’as rien pour puiser, et le puits est profond; d’où aurais-tu donc cette eau vive? 12 Es-tu plus grand que notre père Jacob, qui nous a donné ce puits, et qui en a bu lui-même, ainsi que ses fils et ses troupeaux? 13 Jésus lui répondit: Quiconque boit de cette eau aura encore soif; 14 mais celui qui boira de l’eau que je lui donnerai n’aura jamais soif, et l’eau que je lui donnerai deviendra en lui une source d’eau qui jaillira jusque dans la vie éternelle. 15 La femme lui dit: Seigneur, donne-moi cette eau, afin que je n’aie plus soif, et que je ne vienne plus puiser ici. 16 Va, lui dit Jésus, appelle ton mari, et viens ici. 17 La femme répondit: Je n’ai point de mari. Jésus lui dit: Tu as eu raison de dire: Je n’ai point de mari. 18 Car tu as eu cinq maris, et celui que tu as maintenant n’est pas ton mari. En cela tu as dit vrai. 19 Seigneur, lui dit la femme, je vois que tu es prophète. 20 Nos pères ont adoré sur cette montagne[c]; et vous dites, vous, que le lieu où il faut adorer est à Jérusalem. 21 Femme, lui dit Jésus, crois-moi, l’heure vient où ce ne sera ni sur cette montagne ni à Jérusalem que vous adorerez le Père. 22 Vous adorez ce que vous ne connaissez pas; nous, nous adorons ce que nous connaissons, car le salut vient des Juifs. 23 Mais l’heure vient, et elle est déjà venue, où les vrais adorateurs adoreront le Père en esprit et en vérité; car ce sont là les adorateurs que le Père demande. 24 Dieu est Esprit, et il faut que ceux qui l’adorent l’adorent en esprit et en vérité. 25 La femme lui dit: Je sais que le Messie[d] doit venir (celui qu’on appelle Christ); quand il sera venu, il nous annoncera toutes choses. 26 Jésus lui dit: Je le suis, moi qui te parle.
27 Là-dessus arrivèrent ses disciples, qui furent étonnés de ce qu’il parlait avec une femme. Toutefois aucun ne dit: Que demandes-tu? ou: De quoi parles-tu avec elle? 28 Alors la femme, ayant laissé sa cruche, s’en alla dans la ville, et dit aux gens: 29 Venez voir un homme qui m’a dit tout ce que j’ai fait; ne serait-ce point le Christ? 30 Ils sortirent de la ville, et ils vinrent vers lui.
31 Pendant ce temps, les disciples le pressaient de manger, disant: Rabbi, mange. 32 Mais il leur dit: J’ai à manger une nourriture que vous ne connaissez pas. 33 Les disciples se disaient donc les uns aux autres: Quelqu’un lui aurait-il apporté à manger? 34 Jésus leur dit: Ma nourriture est de faire la volonté de celui qui m’a envoyé, et d’accomplir son œuvre. 35 Ne dites-vous pas qu’il y a encore quatre mois jusqu’à la moisson? Voici, je vous le dis, levez les yeux, et regardez les champs qui déjà blanchissent pour la moisson. 36 Celui qui moissonne reçoit un salaire, et amasse des fruits pour la vie éternelle, afin que celui qui sème et celui qui moissonne se réjouissent ensemble. 37 Car en ceci ce qu’on dit est vrai: L’un sème, et l’autre moissonne[e]. 38 Je vous ai envoyés moissonner où vous n’avez pas travaillé; d’autres ont travaillé, et vous êtes entrés dans leur travail.
39 Plusieurs Samaritains de cette ville crurent en Jésus à cause de cette déclaration formelle de la femme: Il m’a dit tout ce que j’ai fait. 40 Aussi, quand les Samaritains vinrent le trouver, ils le prièrent de rester auprès d’eux. Et il resta là deux jours. 41 Un beaucoup plus grand nombre crurent à cause de sa parole; 42 et ils disaient à la femme: Ce n’est plus à cause de ce que tu as dit que nous croyons; car nous l’avons entendu nous-mêmes, et nous savons qu’il est vraiment le Sauveur du monde.
Jésus en Galilée; il guérit le fils d’un officier
43 Après ces deux jours, Jésus partit de là, pour se rendre en Galilée; 44 car il avait déclaré lui-même qu’un prophète n’est pas honoré dans sa propre patrie. 45 Lorsqu’il arriva en Galilée, il fut bien reçu des Galiléens, qui avaient vu tout ce qu’il avait fait à Jérusalem pendant la fête; car eux aussi étaient allés à la fête. 46 Il retourna donc à Cana en Galilée, où il avait changé l’eau en vin. Il y avait à Capernaüm un officier du roi[f], dont le fils était malade. 47 Ayant appris que Jésus était venu de Judée en Galilée, il alla vers lui, et le pria de descendre et de guérir son fils, qui était près de mourir. 48 Jésus lui dit: Si vous ne voyez des miracles et des prodiges, vous ne croyez point. 49 L’officier du roi lui dit: Seigneur, descends avant que mon enfant meure. 50 Va, lui dit Jésus, ton fils vit. Et cet homme crut à la parole que Jésus lui avait dite, et il s’en alla. 51 Comme il descendait déjà, ses serviteurs venant à sa rencontre, lui apportèrent cette nouvelle: Ton enfant vit. 52 Il leur demanda à quelle heure il s’était trouvé mieux; et ils lui dirent: Hier, à la septième heure, la fièvre l’a quitté. 53 Le père reconnut que c’était à cette heure-là que Jésus lui avait dit: Ton fils vit. Et il crut, lui et toute sa maison.
54 Jésus fit encore ce second miracle[g] lorsqu’il fut venu de Judée en Galilée.
Footnotes
- Jean 4:5 Sychar, dans l’A.T. Sichem; aujourd’hui Naplouse, entre les monts Ebal et Garizim
- Jean 4:6 La sixième heure, ou midi
- Jean 4:20 Cette montagne, la montagne de Sichem, ou le mont Garizim où les Samaritains avaient construit un temple à l’époque de Néhémie
- Jean 4:25 Messie, ou Oint; voir Mt 1:16, note
- Jean 4:37 Seg. autre est celui qui sème, et autre celui qui moissonne
- Jean 4:46 Le roi, Hérode Antipas, tétrarque de Galilée, considéré comme revêtu de dignité royale
- Jean 4:54 Second miracle, en Galilée, le premier étant celui de Cana; cp. Jn 2:11; Jésus en avait fait d’autres à Jérusalem
John 4
King James Version
4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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