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Đức Giê-su Và Người Thiếu Phụ Sa-ma-ri
4 1-3 Thế rồi, Đức Giê-su rời miền Giu-đê trở về Ga-li-lê, vì biết rằng người Pha-ri-si có nghe đồn Ngài đã làm phép báp-tem và thu phục được nhiều người hơn Giăng. Thật ra, chính Đức Giê-su không làm phép báp-tem mà là các môn đệ của Ngài.
4 Ngài thấy cần phải đi con đường băng qua Sa-ma-ri. 5 Vậy, Ngài đến một thị trấn trong miền Sa-ma-ri, tên là Si-kha, gần thửa đất mà xưa Gia-cốp đã cho con là Giô-sép. 6 Tại đó có cái giếng của Gia-cốp. Vì đi đường mệt mỏi nên Đức Giê-su ngồi nghỉ bên giếng. Lúc đó, khoảng giữa trưa.
7 Một người đàn bà Sa-ma-ri ra múc nước. Đức Giê-su bảo: “Cho Ta xin một chút nước uống!” 8 Lúc ấy các môn đệ Ngài đã vào thành phố mua thức ăn.
9 Người đàn bà Sa-ma-ri đáp: “Ông là người Do Thái, tôi là đàn bà Sa-ma-ri, sao ông lại xin tôi nước uống?” Vì người Do Thái không giao thiệp với người Sa-ma-ri.
10 Đức Giê-su đáp: “Nếu ngươi biết tặng phẩm của Đức Chúa Trời ban và biết Người xin ngươi nước uống là ai, chắc ngươi sẽ xin Người và Người sẽ cho ngươi nước trường sinh!”
11 Bà ấy nói với Ngài: “Thưa ông, gàu ông không có mà giếng lại sâu, làm sao ông múc được nước trường sinh đó? 12 Chẳng lẽ ông hơn cả tổ phụ Gia-cốp chúng tôi sao? Người đã để lại giếng này cho chúng tôi, chính người, con cháu và đàn gia súc đều đã uống giếng này.”
13 Đức Giê-su đáp: “Ai uống nước này rồi cũng khát lại, 14 nhưng uống nước Ta ban cho sẽ chẳng bao giờ khát nữa. Nước Ta ban cho sẽ biến thành mạch nước trong người, tuôn tràn sự sống vĩnh phúc.”
15 Bà nói với Ngài: “Thưa ông, xin cho tôi nước đó để tôi không còn khát và cũng khỏi đến đây múc nước nữa!”
16 Ngài bảo: “Ngươi về gọi chồng ra đây!”
17 Bà đáp rằng: “Tôi không có chồng!” 18 Ngài nói với bà: “Bảo là không chồng thì cũng đúng, vì ngươi đã có năm đời chồng và người ngươi hiện có cũng chẳng phải là chồng! Ngươi đã nói thật đó!”
19 Bà thưa với Ngài: “Thưa ông, tôi nhận thấy rằng ông là một tiên tri của Đức Chúa Trời. 20 Tổ tiên chúng tôi đã thờ phượng trên ngọn núi này, còn các ông lại bảo Giê-ru-sa-lem mới chính là nơi để thờ phượng!”
21 Đức Giê-su đáp: “Hỡi người nữ hãy tin Ta đi, sắp đến lúc ngươi không còn thờ phượng Cha trên ngọn núi này hay tại Giê-ru-sa-lem nữa. 22 Ngươi thờ phượng Đấng ngươi không biết, còn chúng ta thờ phượng Đấng chúng ta biết, vì ơn cứu rỗi từ người Do Thái mà đến! 23 Nhưng giờ sắp điểm và thật ra đã điểm đây rồi, lúc những người thờ phượng thật sẽ thờ phượng Cha bằng tâm linh và lẽ thật, vì Chúa Cha vẫn tìm kiếm những người thờ phượng Ngài như vậy. 24 Đức Chúa Trời là Linh, nên những người thờ phượng Ngài phải thờ phượng trong tâm linh và lẽ thật.”
25 Người đàn bà thưa: “Tôi biết Đấng Mê-si-a (nghĩa là Chúa Cứu Thế) sẽ đến và khi đến, Ngài sẽ chỉ bảo cho chúng ta tất cả.”
26 Đức Giê-su đáp: “Ta, người đang nói với ngươi, chính là Đấng đó!”
27 Lúc ấy các môn đệ Ngài vừa về, họ ngạc nhiên thấy Ngài chuyện trò với một người đàn bà, nhưng không ai hỏi Thầy cần gì, hay tại sao lại chuyện trò với người đàn bà ấy?
28 Người đàn bà để vò nước lại, trở vào thành, nói với mọi người: 29 “Hãy đến xem một người đã nói với tôi mọi việc tôi làm. Có phải chăng đây là Chúa Cứu Thế không?” 30 Họ kéo nhau ra khỏi thành đến cùng Ngài.
31 Đang khi đó các môn đệ cứ nài nỉ: “Thưa Thầy, xin mời Thầy ăn!”
32 Ngài trả lời: “Ta có thức ăn mà các con không biết được.”
33 Các môn đệ bèn bảo nhau: “Chẳng lẽ có người đã mời Thầy ăn rồi sao?”
34 Đức Giê-su bảo họ: “Thức ăn của Ta là tuân theo ý muốn của Đấng đã sai Ta và hoàn thành công việc Ngài. 35 Chẳng phải chính các con đã nói còn bốn tháng nữa mới đến mùa gặt, nhưng Ta bảo: Hãy ngước mắt lên nhìn đồng lúa đã vàng, sẵn sàng cho mùa gặt. 36 Thợ gặt đã lãnh tiền công và thu góp hoa lợi vào sự sống vĩnh phúc để kẻ gieo chung vui với người gặt. 37 Thật đúng như câu người ta vẫn nói: Kẻ thì lo gieo, người thì lo gặt. 38 Chính Ta đã sai các con đến gặt ở chỗ mình không gieo, người khác đã nhọc nhằn để các con vào hưởng công lao của họ.”
39 Nhiều người Sa-ma-ri ở thành đó tin Ngài, vì người đàn bà ấy làm chứng rằng Ngài đã nói với bà mọi điều bà đã từng làm. 40 Vì vậy, những người Sa-ma-ri đến yêu cầu Ngài ở lại với họ, nên Ngài ở đó hai ngày. 41 Người tin Đức Giê-su càng đông thêm khi nghe Ngài giảng dạy.
42 Họ bảo bà ấy: “Bây giờ không phải vì nghe chị nói mà chúng tôi tin đâu, nhưng vì chính chúng tôi đã nghe Ngài dạy, nên chúng tôi biết rằng Ngài thật là Đấng Cứu Rỗi của nhân loại.”
Chúa Chữa Lành Con Một Viên Quan(A)
43 Hai ngày sau, Đức Giê-su lên đường đến Ga-li-lê, 44 vì chính Ngài cũng đã xác nhận rằng không một tiên tri nào được tôn trọng tại quê hương. 45 Khi đến Ga-li-lê, người Ga-li-lê nghênh tiếp Ngài, vì họ có lên Giê-ru-sa-lem dự lễ và đã chứng kiến mọi việc Ngài làm tại đó trong kỳ lễ.
46 Rồi Ngài về lại Ca-na, miền Ga-li-lê, nơi Ngài đã hóa nước thành rượu. Một viên quan ở Ca-pha-na-um có đứa con trai lâm bệnh. 47 Nghe tin Đức Giê-su đã rời Giu-đê về Ga-li-lê, ông đến xin Ngài xuống chữa bệnh cho con mình, vì đứa con đang hấp hối.
48 Đức Giê-su nói với ông: “Nếu không thấy dấu lạ phép mầu, hẳn các ngươi chẳng chịu tin đâu!”
49 Viên quan thưa: “Lạy Chúa, xin Chúa đến trước khi con tôi chết!”
50 Đức Giê-su bảo: “Cứ về đi, con của ông sống.” Người ấy tin lời Đức Giê-su nói với mình mà đi về. 51 Trên đường về, các gia nhân ra đón ông trình rằng: “Con của chủ đã bình phục rồi!” 52 Ông hỏi xem bình phục khi nào thì họ thưa: “Hôm qua, vào giờ thứ bảy cơn sốt lìa khỏi.”[a]
53 Người cha nhận ra rằng đó là giờ Đức Giê-su bảo mình: “Con của ông sống!” nên chính ông và cả nhà đều tin.
54 Đây là dấu lạ thứ nhì mà Đức Giê-su đã làm sau khi Ngài rời Giu-đê về Ga-li-lê.
Footnotes
- 4:52 Lúc một giờ trưa
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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(A)— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea(B) and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.(C) 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(D) 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(E) 8 (His disciples had gone into the town(F) to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan(G) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”(H)
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(I) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.(J) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(K) welling up to eternal life.”(L)
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty(M) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.(N) 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,(O) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”(P)
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming(Q) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(R) 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know;(S) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.(T) 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come(U) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit(V) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,(W) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)(X) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”(Y)
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27 Just then his disciples returned(Z) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.(AA) Could this be the Messiah?”(AB) 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,(AC) eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat(AD) that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will(AE) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(AF) 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.(AG) 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests(AH) a crop for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’(AJ) is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town(AK) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”(AL) 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”(AM)
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 After the two days(AN) he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)(AO) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,(AP) for they also had been there.
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.(AQ) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,(AR) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”(AS) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household(AT) believed.
54 This was the second sign(AU) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used
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John 4
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Jesus and a Samaritan Woman
4 The Pharisees [C a religious party which strictly observed OT laws and later customs] heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more ·followers [disciples] than John, 2 although Jesus himself did not baptize people, but his ·followers [disciples] did. 3 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard about him, so he left Judea [C the southern region of Israel] and went back to Galilee [C the northern region of Israel; Mark 1:14]. 4 But on the way he had to go through the country of Samaria [C the central region occupied by a people disliked because they were only partly Jewish].
5 In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar [C perhaps Shechem or a village near it; compare Gen. 33:18–19; 48:22], which is near the ·field [plot of ground] Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from ·his long trip [L the journey], so he sat down beside the well. It was about ·twelve o’clock noon [L the sixth hour; C hours were counted from dawn, about 6 AM]. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to the well to ·get some [draw] water, Jesus said to her, “·Please give [L Give] me a drink.” 8 (This happened while Jesus’ ·followers [disciples] were in town buying some food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said, “·I am surprised [L How is it…?] that you ask me for a drink, since you are a ·Jewish man [L a Jew] and I am a Samaritan woman.” (Jewish people ·are not friends [do not share things; have no dealings] with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus ·said [answered; replied], “If you only knew the ·free gift [L gift] of God and who it is that is asking you ·for water [L “Give me a drink”], you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” [C “Living water” in Greek can mean fresh running water, but Jesus means “water which gives eternal life”; the woman misunderstands this play on words.]
11 The woman said, “Sir, where will you get this living water? The well is very deep, and you have ·nothing to get water with [L no bucket]. 12 Are you greater than Jacob, our father [C a patriarch recognized by both Jews and Samaritans], who gave us this well and drank from it himself along with his sons and ·flocks [or livestock]?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again [C because physical water only temporarily satisfies thirst], 14 but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty [C because spiritual renewal/eternal life is forever]. [L But; Indeed] The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life [Is. 12:3; 49:10; 55:1–3; Rev. 7:16].”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so I will never be thirsty again and will not have to come back here to ·get [draw] more water.” [C Her response indicates she does not understand.]
16 Jesus told her, “Go ·get [call] your husband and come back here.”
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You are right to say you have no husband. 18 ·Really [For] you have had five husbands, and the man you ·live with [L have] now is not your husband. You told the truth.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ·ancestors [forefathers; L fathers] worshiped on this mountain [C the Samaritans worshiped on Mount Gerizim near Shechem], but you [C plural, referring to the Jews] say that Jerusalem [C Mount Zion, the location of the temple] is the place where people must worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman [C a respectful form of address in that culture; 2:4]. The ·time [L hour; C the time of salvation established by the death and resurrection of Christ; see 2:4] is coming when neither in Jerusalem nor on this mountain will you ·actually worship [L worship] the Father. 22 You Samaritans worship something you don’t understand. We [C Jews] understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews [C because the Messiah who brings salvation comes through the Jews]. 23 [L But] The ·time [L hour; see 4:21] is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in ·spirit [or the Spirit] and truth, and that time ·is here already [has now come; is now here]. You see, the Father too is actively seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is ·spirit [Spirit], and those who worship him must worship in ·spirit [Spirit] and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming.” (Messiah is the One called Christ [C both Hebrew Mashiach and Greek Christos mean “Anointed One”; see 1:41].) “When ·the Messiah [L that one] comes, he will ·explain [report; announce] everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus said to her, “I am he—I, the one talking to you.”
27 Just then his ·followers [disciples] came back from town and were surprised to see him talking with a woman [C some Jews thought it a waste of time for rabbis to teach women]. But none of them asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. Do you think he might be the ·Christ [Messiah]?” 30 So the people left the town and ·went to see Jesus [L were coming toward him].
31 Meanwhile, his ·followers [disciples] were ·begging [urging] him, “·Teacher [L Rabbi], eat something.”
32 But Jesus answered, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about [Deut. 8:3].”
33 So the ·followers [disciples] asked ·themselves [each other], “·Did somebody already bring him food [L No one brought him anything to eat, did they]?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do ·what the One who sent me wants me to do [L the will of the One who sent me] and to ·finish [complete] his work. 35 ·You have a saying [L Do you not say…?], ‘Four more months till harvest.’ ·But [Look; T Behold] I tell you, ·open your eyes and look at [L lift up your eyes and see] the fields ·ready [ripe; L white] for harvest now. 36 Already, the one who ·harvests [reaps] is ·being paid [L receiving wages] and is gathering ·crops [fruit] for eternal life. So the one who ·plants [sows] and the one who ·harvests [reaps] ·celebrate [rejoice] ·at the same time [together]. 37 [L For] ·Here [in this case] the saying is true, ‘One person ·plants [sows], and another ·harvests [reaps].’ 38 I sent you to ·harvest a crop that [reap what] you did not ·work [labor; toil] on. Others did the ·work [labor; toil], and you ·get to finish up [reap the benefits of; L have entered into] their work.”
39 Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because of ·what the woman said [L the word of the woman who testified]: “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 When the Samaritans came to Jesus, they ·begged [urged; asked] him to stay with them, so he stayed there two more days. 41 And many more believed because of ·the things he said [L his word].
42 They said to the woman, “·First we believed in Jesus [L It is no longer] because of what you said, but now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Officer’s Son(A)
43 Two days later, Jesus left [L from there] and went to Galilee [C the northern region of Israel]. 44 (Jesus had ·said [testified; witnessed] before that a prophet ·is not respected [L has no honor] in his own ·country [or hometown; C probably a reference to Galilee, but some think Judea].) 45 When [L therefore] Jesus arrived in Galilee, the ·people there [L Galileans] ·welcomed [received] him. They had seen all the things he did at the Passover Feast in Jerusalem, because they had been there, too.
46 Jesus went again to visit Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine [2:1–11]. One of the king’s important officers lived in the city of Capernaum, and his son was sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and ·begged [urged; asked] him to come to Capernaum and heal his son, because his son was almost dead. 48 Jesus said to him, “·You people must see signs and miracles before you will believe in me [L Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe; 2:23–25; 6:26].”
49 The [royal] officer said, “Sir, ·come [L come down] before my child dies.”
50 Jesus ·answered [said to him], “Go. Your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus told him [C he did not need “signs” and miracles] and went home. 51 On the way the man’s ·servants [slaves; bond-servants] came and met him and told him, “Your son is alive.”
52 [L So/Then] The man asked, “What ·time [hour] did my son begin to get well?”
They answered, “Yesterday at ·one o’clock [L the seventh hour; C hours were counted from dawn, about 6 AM] the fever left him.”
53 [L So/Then] The father knew that ·one o’clock was the exact time that [L in that hour] Jesus had said, “Your son will live.” So the man and all ·the people who lived in his house [his household] believed in Jesus.
54 That was the second ·miracle [L sign; C the first sign was turning water into wine; 2:1–11] Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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