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Isaiah 52-56
English Standard Version
Isaiah 52-56
English Standard Version
The Lord's Coming Salvation
52 (A)Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
(B)put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, (C)the holy city;
(D)for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 (E)Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
(F)loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the Lord: (G)“You were sold for nothing, and (H)you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord God: (I)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[a] 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (J)continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. (K)Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
7 (L)How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, (M)who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of (N)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
(O)for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
9 (P)Break forth together into singing,
(Q)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (R)the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (S)The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
(T)and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 (U)Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
(V)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not (W)go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
(X)for the Lord will go before you,
(Y)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
13 Behold, (Z)my servant shall act wisely;[b]
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you—
(AA)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
15 so (AB)shall he sprinkle[c] many nations.
(AC)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
(AD)for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 (AE)Who has believed what he has heard from us?[d]
And to whom has (AF)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
(AG)and like a root out of dry ground;
(AH)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 (AI)He was despised and rejected[e] by men,
a man of sorrows[f] and acquainted with[g] grief;[h]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[i]
he was despised, and (AJ)we esteemed him not.
4 (AK)Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
(AL)smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 (AM)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
(AN)and with his wounds we are healed.
6 (AO)All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
(AP)and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
(AQ)yet he opened not his mouth;
(AR)like a (AS)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, (AT)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
(AU)and with a rich man in his death,
although (AV)he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet (AW)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;[j]
(AX)when his soul makes[k] an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
(AY)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[l] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall (AZ)the righteous one, my servant,
(BA)make many to be accounted righteous,
(BB)and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 (BC)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[m]
(BD)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[n]
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
(BE)yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
The Eternal Covenant of Peace
54 (BF)“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of (BG)the desolate one (BH)will be more
than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
2 (BI)“Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
3 (BJ)For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.
4 “Fear not, (BK)for you will not be ashamed;
be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced;
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
5 (BL)For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name;
(BM)and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
(BN)the God of the whole earth he is called.
6 (BO)For the Lord has called you
like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
says your God.
7 (BP)For a brief moment I deserted you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.
8 (BQ)In overflowing anger for a moment
I hid my face from you,
(BR)but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “This is like (BS)the days of Noah[o] to me:
as I swore that the waters of Noah
should no more go over the earth,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you,
and will not rebuke you.
10 For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and (BT)my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
11 (BU)“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted,
behold, (BV)I will set your stones in antimony,
(BW)and lay your foundations with sapphires.[p]
12 I will make your pinnacles of agate,[q]
your gates of carbuncles,[r]
and all your wall of precious stones.
13 (BX)All your children (BY)shall be taught by the Lord,
(BZ)and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness you shall be established;
you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
15 (CA)If anyone stirs up strife,
it is not from me;
whoever stirs up strife with you
shall fall because of you.
16 Behold, I have created the smith
who blows the fire of coals
and produces a weapon for its purpose.
I have also created the ravager to destroy;
17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
(CB)and their vindication[s] from me, declares the Lord.”
The Compassion of the Lord
55 (CC)“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
(CD)come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 (CE)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
(CF)hear, that your soul may live;
(CG)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
(CH)my steadfast, sure love for (CI)David.
4 (CJ)Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
(CK)a leader and commander for the peoples.
5 (CL)Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and (CM)a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
(CN)for he has glorified you.
6 (CO)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 (CP)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 (CQ)“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
(CR)giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but (CS)it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 (CT)“For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
(CU)the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 (CV)Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
Salvation for Foreigners
56 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
(CW)for soon my salvation will come,
and my righteousness be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
(CX)who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not (CY)the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am (CZ)a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs (DA)who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
5 (DB)I will give in my house and within my walls
a (DC)monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
(DD)I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 “And (DE)the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone (DF)who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
7 (DG)these I will bring to (DH)my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
(DI)their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for (DJ)my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
8 The Lord God,
(DK)who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
(DL)“I will gather yet others to him
besides those already gathered.”
Israel's Irresponsible Leaders
9 (DM)All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.
10 (DN)His watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (DO)dogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 (DP)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But (DQ)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
(DR)each to his own gain, one and all.
12 (DS)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(DT)and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
- Isaiah 52:13 Or shall prosper
- Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
- Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
- Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
- Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
- Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us
- Isaiah 53:10 Or he has made him sick
- Isaiah 53:10 Or when you make his soul
- Isaiah 53:11 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light
- Isaiah 53:12 Or with the great
- Isaiah 53:12 Or with the numerous
- Isaiah 54:9 Some manuscripts For this is as the waters of Noah
- Isaiah 54:11 Or lapis lazuli
- Isaiah 54:12 Or jasper, or ruby
- Isaiah 54:12 Or crystal
- Isaiah 54:17 Or righteousness
Isaiah 52-56
New International Version
Isaiah 52-56
New International Version
52 Awake, awake,(A) Zion,
clothe yourself with strength!(B)
Put on your garments of splendor,(C)
Jerusalem, the holy city.(D)
The uncircumcised(E) and defiled(F)
will not enter you again.(G)
2 Shake off your dust;(H)
rise up,(I) sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,(J)
Daughter Zion,(K) now a captive.
3 For this is what the Lord says:
4 For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
5 “And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord.
“For my people have been taken away for nothing,
and those who rule them mock,[a]”
declares the Lord.
“And all day long
my name is constantly blasphemed.(Q)
6 Therefore my people will know(R) my name;(S)
therefore in that day(T) they will know
that it is I who foretold(U) it.
Yes, it is I.”
7 How beautiful on the mountains(V)
are the feet of those who bring good news,(W)
who proclaim peace,(X)
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”(Y)
8 Listen! Your watchmen(Z) lift up their voices;(AA)
together they shout for joy.(AB)
When the Lord returns(AC) to Zion,(AD)
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy(AE) together,
you ruins(AF) of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted(AG) his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.(AH)
10 The Lord will lay bare his holy arm(AI)
in the sight of all the nations,(AJ)
and all the ends of the earth(AK) will see
the salvation(AL) of our God.
11 Depart,(AM) depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing!(AN)
Come out from it and be pure,(AO)
you who carry the articles(AP) of the Lord’s house.
12 But you will not leave in haste(AQ)
or go in flight;
for the Lord will go before you,(AR)
the God of Israel will be your rear guard.(AS)
The Suffering and Glory of the Servant
13 See, my servant(AT) will act wisely[b];
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.(AU)
14 Just as there were many who were appalled(AV) at him[c]—
his appearance was so disfigured(AW) beyond that of any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness(AX)—
15 so he will sprinkle(AY) many nations,[d]
and kings(AZ) will shut their mouths(BA) because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.(BB)
53 Who has believed our message(BC)
and to whom has the arm(BD) of the Lord been revealed?(BE)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(BF)
and like a root(BG) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance(BH) that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering,(BI) and familiar with pain.(BJ)
Like one from whom people hide(BK) their faces
he was despised,(BL) and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,(BM)
yet we considered him punished by God,(BN)
stricken by him, and afflicted.(BO)
5 But he was pierced(BP) for our transgressions,(BQ)
he was crushed(BR) for our iniquities;
the punishment(BS) that brought us peace(BT) was on him,
and by his wounds(BU) we are healed.(BV)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(BW)
each of us has turned to our own way;(BX)
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity(BY) of us all.
7 He was oppressed(BZ) and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;(CA)
he was led like a lamb(CB) to the slaughter,(CC)
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[e] and judgment(CD) he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(CE)
for the transgression(CF) of my people he was punished.[f]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(CG)
and with the rich(CH) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(CI)
nor was any deceit in his mouth.(CJ)
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will(CK) to crush(CL) him and cause him to suffer,(CM)
and though the Lord makes[g] his life an offering for sin,(CN)
he will see his offspring(CO) and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper(CP) in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,(CQ)
he will see the light(CR) of life[h] and be satisfied[i];
by his knowledge[j] my righteous servant(CS) will justify(CT) many,
and he will bear their iniquities.(CU)
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[k](CV)
and he will divide the spoils(CW) with the strong,[l]
because he poured out his life unto death,(CX)
and was numbered with the transgressors.(CY)
For he bore(CZ) the sin of many,(DA)
and made intercession(DB) for the transgressors.
The Future Glory of Zion
54 “Sing, barren woman,(DC)
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,(DD)
you who were never in labor;(DE)
because more are the children(DF) of the desolate(DG) woman
than of her who has a husband,(DH)”
says the Lord.
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,(DI)
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes.(DJ)
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your descendants(DK) will dispossess nations(DL)
and settle in their desolate(DM) cities.
4 “Do not be afraid;(DN) you will not be put to shame.(DO)
Do not fear disgrace;(DP) you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth(DQ)
and remember no more the reproach(DR) of your widowhood.(DS)
5 For your Maker(DT) is your husband(DU)—
the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One(DV) of Israel is your Redeemer;(DW)
he is called the God of all the earth.(DX)
6 The Lord will call you back(DY)
as if you were a wife deserted(DZ) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,(EA)
only to be rejected,” says your God.
7 “For a brief moment(EB) I abandoned(EC) you,
but with deep compassion(ED) I will bring you back.(EE)
8 In a surge of anger(EF)
I hid(EG) my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness(EH)
I will have compassion(EI) on you,”
says the Lord your Redeemer.(EJ)
9 “To me this is like the days of Noah,
when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.(EK)
So now I have sworn(EL) not to be angry(EM) with you,
never to rebuke(EN) you again.
10 Though the mountains be shaken(EO)
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love(EP) for you will not be shaken(EQ)
nor my covenant(ER) of peace(ES) be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion(ET) on you.
11 “Afflicted(EU) city, lashed by storms(EV) and not comforted,(EW)
I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,[m](EX)
your foundations(EY) with lapis lazuli.(EZ)
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates(FA) of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children will be taught by the Lord,(FB)
and great will be their peace.(FC)
14 In righteousness(FD) you will be established:(FE)
Tyranny(FF) will be far from you;
you will have nothing to fear.(FG)
Terror(FH) will be far removed;
it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
whoever attacks you will surrender(FI) to you.
16 “See, it is I who created the blacksmith(FJ)
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon(FK) fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer(FL) to wreak havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will prevail,(FM)
and you will refute(FN) every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants(FO) of the Lord,
and this is their vindication(FP) from me,”
declares the Lord.
Invitation to the Thirsty
55 “Come, all you who are thirsty,(FQ)
come to the waters;(FR)
and you who have no money,
come, buy(FS) and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk(FT)
without money and without cost.(FU)
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?(FV)
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,(FW)
and you will delight in the richest(FX) of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen,(FY) that you may live.(FZ)
I will make an everlasting covenant(GA) with you,
my faithful love(GB) promised to David.(GC)
4 See, I have made him a witness(GD) to the peoples,
a ruler and commander(GE) of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations(GF) you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,(GG)
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One(GH) of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”(GI)
6 Seek(GJ) the Lord while he may be found;(GK)
call(GL) on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake(GM) their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.(GN)
Let them turn(GO) to the Lord, and he will have mercy(GP) on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.(GQ)
8 “For my thoughts(GR) are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”(GS)
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,(GT)
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.(GU)
10 As the rain(GV) and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,(GW)
so that it yields seed(GX) for the sower and bread for the eater,(GY)
11 so is my word(GZ) that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,(HA)
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose(HB) for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy(HC)
and be led forth in peace;(HD)
the mountains and hills
will burst into song(HE) before you,
and all the trees(HF) of the field
will clap their hands.(HG)
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers(HH) the myrtle(HI) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(HJ)
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
Salvation for Others
56 This is what the Lord says:
“Maintain justice(HK)
and do what is right,(HL)
for my salvation(HM) is close at hand
and my righteousness(HN) will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed(HO) is the one who does this—
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath(HP) without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”
3 Let no foreigner(HQ) who is bound to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”(HR)
And let no eunuch(HS) complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
4 For this is what the Lord says:
“To the eunuchs(HT) who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant(HU)—
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls(HV)
a memorial(HW) and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name(HX)
that will endure forever.(HY)
6 And foreigners(HZ) who bind themselves to the Lord
to minister(IA) to him,
to love the name(IB) of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath(IC) without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain(ID)
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices(IE)
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.(IF)”(IG)
8 The Sovereign Lord declares—
he who gathers the exiles of Israel:
“I will gather(IH) still others to them
besides those already gathered.”
God’s Accusation Against the Wicked
9 Come, all you beasts of the field,(II)
come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
10 Israel’s watchmen(IJ) are blind,
they all lack knowledge;(IK)
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they lie around and dream,
they love to sleep.(IL)
11 They are dogs with mighty appetites;
they never have enough.
They are shepherds(IM) who lack understanding;(IN)
they all turn to their own way,(IO)
they seek their own gain.(IP)
12 “Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine!(IQ)
Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
or even far better.”(IR)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail
- Isaiah 52:13 Or will prosper
- Isaiah 52:14 Hebrew you
- Isaiah 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)
- Isaiah 53:8 Or From arrest
- Isaiah 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?
- Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make
- Isaiah 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.
- Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied
- Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him
- Isaiah 53:12 Or many
- Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous
- Isaiah 54:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
John 4
English Standard Version
John 4
English Standard Version
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and (A)baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed (B)again for Galilee. 4 (C)And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field (D)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, (E)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[a]
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, (F)“Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” ((G)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus 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 (H)living water.” 11 The 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 (I)Are you greater than our father Jacob? (J)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but (K)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him (L)will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become (M)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, (N)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, (O)call your husband, and come 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 one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that (P)you are (Q)a prophet. 20 (R)Our fathers worshiped on (S)this mountain, but you say that (T)in Jerusalem is (U)the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, (V)“Woman, believe me, (W)the hour is coming when (X)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 (Y)You worship what you do not know; (Z)we worship what we know, for (AA)salvation is (AB)from the Jews. 23 But (AC)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (AD)in spirit and (AE)truth, for the Father (AF)is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that (AG)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, (AH)he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, (AI)“I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then (AJ)his 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?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man (AK)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, (AL)“Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, (AM)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, (AN)“My food is (AO)to do the will of him who sent me and (AP)to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that (AQ)the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that (AR)sower and (AS)reaper (AT)may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, (AU)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap (AV)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, (AW)and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans (AX)from that town believed in him (AY)because of (AZ)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed (BA)because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, (BB)and we know that this is indeed (BC)the Savior (BD)of the world.”
43 After (BE)the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified (BF)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, (BG)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For (BH)they too had gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
46 So he came again to (BI)Cana in Galilee, (BJ)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus (BK)had 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. 48 So Jesus said to him, (BL)“Unless you[c] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down (BM)before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants[d] met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour[e] the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, (BN)and all his household. 54 (BO)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
John 4
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John 4
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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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