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Jesus og den samaritanske kvinde

1-2 Da farisæerne i Jerusalem fik meddelelse om, at Jesus fik flere disciple og døbte flere end Johannes— selv om det faktisk var Jesu disciple, der døbte—blev de vrede på ham. Da Jesus blev klar over det, brød han op fra Judæa for at vende tilbage til Galilæa.

Han vidste, at det var Guds plan, at han skulle rejse gennem Samaria. 5-6 Da han nærmede sig byen Sykar i Samaria, standsede han op ved den berømte Jakobs brønd. Den ligger på et stykke jord, som patriarken Jakob købte og senere gav i arv til sin søn Josef. Jesus var træt efter den lange vandring og satte sig udmattet ved brønden. Klokken var cirka seks om aftenen.[a]

Kort tid efter kom en samaritansk kvinde for at hente vand, og Jesus sagde til hende: „Vær venlig at give mig noget at drikke.” Han var alene, for hans disciple var gået ind til byen for at købe mad. Kvinden blev overrasket over, at en jøde henvendte sig til hende, for jøderne plejer ikke at ville have noget med samaritanere at gøre. „Hvordan kan det være, at du, som er jøde, beder mig, en samaritansk kvinde, om noget at drikke?” spurgte hun.

10 Jesus svarede: „Hvis du vidste, hvad Gud kan give dig, og hvis du forstod, hvem jeg er, så var det dig, der ville bede mig om noget at drikke—og så ville jeg give dig levende[b] vand.”

11 „Du har jo ingen spand,” sagde hun, „og brønden her er meget dyb. Hvordan vil du så skaffe det levende vand? 12 Du er vel ikke større end vores stamfar Jakob, som gav os denne brønd? Kan du give mig vand, der er bedre end det, både Jakob selv, hans familie og hans kvæg har drukket af?”

13 Jesus svarede: „Drikker man af det her almindelige vand, bliver man tørstig igen. 14 Men drikker man af det vand, jeg giver, vil man aldrig mere tørste. Det vand, jeg giver, bliver som en kilde, der vælder frem med evigt liv.”

15 „Åh, giv mig noget af det vand!” udbrød kvinden. „Tænk, hvis man aldrig mere skulle tørste og være nødt til at gå helt herud efter vand!”

16 „Gå hjem og hent din mand,” sagde Jesus.

17-18 „Jeg har ikke nogen mand,” svarede kvinden.

„Det har du ret i, for du har haft fem mænd; og ham, du nu bor sammen med, er du ikke gift med. Dér sagde du noget sandt.”

19 „Herre,” udbrød kvinden, „du må være en profet! 20 Kan du så forklare mig, hvorfor I jøder påstår, at det kun er i templet i Jerusalem, man kan tilbede Gud? Vi har jo fra gammel tid tilbedt Gud på det her bjerg.”

21 Jesus svarede: „Tro mig: Den tid kommer, hvor det ikke længere er væsentligt, hvor man tilbeder Gud—her eller i Jerusalem. 22 I samaritanere tilbeder det, som I ikke kender, men vi tilbeder det, vi kender, for frelsen udgår fra jøderne. 23 Men der kommer en tid, ja, den er allerede kommet, hvor de sande tilbedere skal tilbede Faderen i ånd og sandhed. Det er den slags tilbedere, Faderen søger. 24 Gud er ånd, og de, der tilbeder ham, skal tilbede i ånd og sandhed.”

25 Kvinden sagde: „Jeg ved, at Messias skal komme engang, og når han kommer, vil han forklare os alt.” 26 Da sagde Jesus til hende: „Han står her og taler med dig!”

27 I det samme kom disciplene tilbage. De blev overraskede over, at han talte med en kvinde, men ingen af dem spurgte ham, hvorfor han gjorde det, eller hvad han ville hende.

28 Kvinden lod nu sin vandkrukke stå ved brønden og løb tilbage til byen. 29 „Kom og se en mand, som har fortalt mig alt, hvad jeg har gjort!” råbte hun. „Mon ikke han er Messias?” 30 Straks løb en masse mennesker ud for at se, hvem det var, hun snakkede om.

Den åndelige, samaritanske „mark” er klar til at blive høstet

31 Da kvinden var gået, sagde disciplene til Jesus: „Mester, kom og få noget at spise.” 32 Men Jesus svarede: „Jeg har mad at spise, som I ikke kender til.” 33 Disciplene spurgte hinanden: „Hvem kan være kommet med mad til ham?”

34 Jesus svarede: „Min mad er at gøre hans vilje, som sendte mig, og at fuldføre den opgave, han gav mig. 35 I siger nok: ‚Der er stadig fire måneder, til høsten begynder.’ Men jeg siger jer: Luk øjnene op! ‚Markerne’ er hvide og parate til at blive høstet! 36 Høstfolkene er allerede begyndt at arbejde og få deres løn. De samler afgrøde ind til evigt liv. Den, som sår, skal glæde sig sammen med den, som høster, 37 for her gælder det ordsprog: ‚Én sår, og en anden høster.’ 38 Jeg har sendt jer ud for at høste det, som I ikke har arbejdet med. Andre har slidt i det før jer, men I skal fuldføre det, som de begyndte.”

Mange samaritanere kommer til tro på Jesus

39 Kvinden gik rundt og fortalte alle og enhver om, hvordan Jesus havde vidst ting om hende, som en fremmed ikke kunne vide. Som resultat heraf var der mange samaritanere fra den by, som kom til tro på ham.

40 Da samaritanerne kom ud til brønden, indbød de straks Jesus til at komme ind og overnatte i byen, og han blev hos dem i to dage. 41 I løbet af den tid kom mange til tro ved at lytte til hans ord, 42 og de sagde til kvinden: „Nu tror vi, fordi vi selv har hørt ham, og ikke kun på grund af det, du fortalte. Han er virkelig verdens Frelser, den Messias, vi har ventet på.[c]

Jesus helbreder en embedsmands søn

43 Da de to dage var gået, fortsatte Jesus sin rejse til Galilæa, dog ikke til sin hjemby, 44 for han havde jo selv sagt, at en profet ikke er anerkendt i sin egen by. 45 Men de øvrige galilæere tog imod ham med åbne arme. Mange havde nemlig været i Jerusalem under påskefesten og havde set de undere, han havde udført der.

46 Jesus slog sig foreløbig ned i Kana, hvor han havde gjort vand til vin.[d] I byen Kapernaum i nærheden boede der en højtstående embedsmand, hvis søn lå alvorligt syg. 47 Da han hørte, at Jesus var ankommet til Kana, tog han straks af sted, opsøgte Jesus og bad ham følge med til Kapernaum for at helbrede drengen, der lå for døden.

48 „I vil kun tro på mig, hvis I ser tegn og undere,” sagde Jesus.

49 „Herre,” bønfaldt embedsmanden, „du må komme, inden min lille dreng dør!”

50 „Du kan roligt gå hjem,” sagde Jesus, „din søn er helbredt.” Manden troede Jesus og gik. 51 Allerede på vejen hjem traf han nogle af sine tjenere, der var gået ham i møde for at fortælle ham, at hans søn nu var rask. 52 Han spurgte dem, hvornår drengen var begyndt at få det bedre. „I går aftes ved syvtiden[e] forsvandt feberen pludselig!” forklarede de. 53 Da forstod han, at det var sket i det øjeblik, Jesus havde sagt: „Din søn er helbredt.” Og han selv og hele hans familie kom til tro på Jesus.

54 Det var det andet mirakuløse tegn, som Jesus udførte i Galilæa, efter at han var vendt hjem fra turen til Judæa.

Footnotes

  1. 4,5-6 Som nævnt i noten til 1,39 bruger Johannesevangeliet sandsynligvis den officielle romerske tidsregning. Derfor betyder det græske udtryk „den sjette time” klokken 6 og ikke klokken 12.
  2. 4,10 På hebraisk betyder „levende vand” frisk eller rindende vand. Men Jesus bruger med vilje ordet i en dobbelt betydning.
  3. 4,42 Nogle håndskrifter mangler: „den Messias, vi har ventet på.”
  4. 4,46 Da Natanael var fra Kana, boede Jesus muligvis i hans hjem. Jf. 21,2.
  5. 4,52 Det græske udtryk „ved den syvende time” er her oversat som klokken 7, da Johannes formodentlig bruger romersk tidsregning, jf. noten til 1,39. Embedsmanden havde åbenbart først truffet Jesus om aftenen, og af sikkerhedsmæssige grunde ventede han så til næste morgen med at påbegynde den flere timer lange rejse fra Kana til Kapernaum, en strækning på 25-30 km. Man ved ikke med sikkerhed, hvor Kana lå, men sandsynligvis ca. 15 km nord for Nazaret.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(A) although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea(B) and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.(C) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(D) Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(E) (His disciples had gone into the town(F) to buy food.)

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

  1. John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used

A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah

Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and (A)baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. But He needed to go through Samaria.

So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that (B)Jacob (C)gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For (D)Jews have no dealings with (E)Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the (F)gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you (G)living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but (H)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him (I)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

15 (J)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, (K)I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on (L)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (M)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (N)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (O)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (P)salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will (Q)worship the Father in (R)spirit (S)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 (T)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah (U)is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, (V)He will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, (W)“I who speak to you am He.

The Whitened Harvest

27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man (X)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, (Y)“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to (Z)finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes (AA)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, (AB)for they are already white for harvest! 36 (AC)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that (AD)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: (AE)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; (AF)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The Savior of the World

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him (AG)because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own (AH)word.

42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for (AI)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed [a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

Welcome at Galilee

43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44 For (AJ)Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, (AK)having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; (AL)for they also had gone to the feast.

A Nobleman’s Son Healed

46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee (AM)where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain [b]nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, (AN)“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”

49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”

52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.

54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.

Footnotes

  1. John 4:42 NU omits the Christ
  2. John 4:46 royal official

Jesús y la Samaritana

Se enteró Jesús de que los fariseos supieron que cada vez aumentaba más el número de sus seguidores y que bautizaba incluso más que Juan, aunque de hecho no era el mismo Jesús quien bautizaba, sino sus discípulos. Así que salió de Judea y regresó a Galilea. Y como tenía que atravesar Samaría, llegó a un pueblo de esa región llamado Sicar, cerca del terreno que Jacob dio a su hijo José. Allí se encontraba el pozo de Jacob. Jesús, fatigado del camino, se sentó junto al pozo. Era cerca de mediodía. Y en esto, llega una mujer samaritana a sacar agua. Jesús le dice:

— Dame de beber.

Los discípulos habían ido al pueblo a comprar comida. La mujer samaritana le contesta:

— ¡Cómo! ¿No eres tú judío? ¿Y te atreves a pedirme de beber a mí que soy samaritana?

(Es que los judíos y los samaritanos no se trataban).

10 Jesús le responde:

— Si conocieras el don de Dios y quién es el que te dice: “dame de beber”, serías tú la que me pedirías de beber, y yo te daría agua viva.

11 — Pero Señor —replica la mujer—, no tienes con qué sacar el agua y el pozo es hondo. ¿Dónde tienes ese agua viva? 12 Jacob, nuestro antepasado, nos dejó este pozo, del que bebió él mismo, sus hijos y sus ganados. ¿Acaso te consideras de mayor categoría que él?

13 Jesús le contesta:

— Todo el que bebe de esta agua volverá a tener sed; 14 en cambio, el que beba del agua que yo quiero darle, nunca más volverá a tener sed sino que esa agua se convertirá en su interior en un manantial capaz de dar vida eterna.

15 Exclama entonces la mujer:

— Señor, dame de esa agua; así ya no volveré a tener sed ni tendré que venir aquí a sacar agua.

16 Jesús le dice:

— Vete a tu casa, llama a tu marido y vuelve acá.

17 Ella le contesta:

— No tengo marido.

— Es cierto —reconoce Jesús—; no tienes marido. 18 Has tenido cinco y ese con el que ahora vives no es tu marido. En esto has dicho la verdad.

19 Le responde la mujer:

— Señor, veo que eres profeta. 20 Nuestros antepasados rindieron culto a Dios en este monte; en cambio, ustedes los judíos dicen que el lugar para dar culto a Dios es Jerusalén.

21 Jesús le contesta:

— Créeme, mujer, está llegando el momento en que para dar culto al Padre, ustedes no tendrán que subir a este monte ni ir a Jerusalén. 22 Ustedes los samaritanos rinden culto a algo que desconocen; nosotros sí lo conocemos, ya que la salvación viene de los judíos. 23 Está llegando el momento, mejor dicho, ha llegado ya, en que los verdaderos adoradores rendirán culto al Padre en espíritu y en verdad, porque estos son los adoradores que el Padre quiere. 24 Dios es espíritu, y quienes le rinden culto deben hacerlo en espíritu y en verdad.

25 La mujer le dice:

— Yo sé que el Mesías (es decir, el Cristo) está por llegar; cuando venga nos lo enseñará todo.

26 Jesús, entonces, le manifiesta:

— El Mesías soy yo, el mismo que está hablando contigo.

El verdadero alimento

27 En ese momento llegaron los discípulos y se sorprendieron al ver a Jesús hablando con una mujer; pero ninguno se atrevió a preguntarle qué quería de ella o de qué estaban hablando. 28 La mujer, por su parte, dejó allí el cántaro, regresó al pueblo y dijo a la gente:

29 — Vengan a ver a un hombre que me ha adivinado todo lo que he hecho. ¿Será el Mesías?

30 Ellos salieron del pueblo y fueron a ver a Jesús. 31 Mientras tanto, los discípulos le insistían:

— Maestro, come.

32 Pero él les dijo:

— Yo me alimento de un manjar que ustedes no conocen.

33 Los discípulos comentaban entre sí:

— ¿Será que alguien le ha traído comida?

34 Jesús les explicó:

— Mi alimento es hacer la voluntad del que me ha enviado y llevar a cabo sus planes.

35 ¿No dicen ustedes que todavía faltan cuatro meses para la cosecha? Pues fíjense: los sembrados están ya maduros para la recolección. 36 El que trabaja en la recolección recibe su salario y recoge el fruto con destino a la vida eterna; de esta suerte, se alegran juntos el que siembra y el que hace la recolección. 37 Con lo que se cumple el proverbio: “Uno es el que siembra y otro el que cosecha”. 38 Yo los envío a ustedes a recolectar algo que no han labrado; otros trabajaron y ustedes se benefician de su trabajo.

39 Muchos de los habitantes de aquel pueblo creyeron en Jesús movidos por el testimonio de la samaritana, que aseguraba:

— Me ha adivinado todo lo que he hecho.

40 Por eso, los samaritanos, cuando llegaron a donde estaba Jesús, le insistían en que se quedara con ellos. Y en efecto, se quedó allí dos días, 41 de manera que fueron muchos más los que creyeron en él por sus propias palabras. 42 Así que decían a la mujer:

— Ya no creemos en él por lo que tú nos has dicho, sino porque nosotros mismos hemos escuchado sus palabras, y estamos convencidos de que él es verdaderamente el salvador del mundo.

Segundo signo (4,43-54)

Jesús cura al hijo de un funcionario real (Mt 8,5-13; Lc 7,1-10)

43 Pasados dos días, Jesús partió de Samaría camino de Galilea. 44 El mismo Jesús había declarado que un profeta no es bien considerado en su propia patria. 45 Cuando llegó a Galilea, los galileos le dieron la bienvenida, pues también ellos habían estado en Jerusalén por la fiesta de la Pascua y habían visto todo lo que Jesús había hecho en aquella ocasión.

46 Jesús visitó de nuevo Caná de Galilea, donde había convertido el agua en vino. Se encontraba allí un oficial de la corte que tenía el hijo enfermo en Cafarnaún. 47 Cuando se enteró de que Jesús había llegado a Galilea procedente de Judea, acudió a él y le suplicó que bajara a su casa para curar a su hijo, que estaba a punto de morir. 48 Jesús lo regañó:

— Ustedes sólo creen si ven milagros y prodigios.

49 Pero el oficial insistía:

— Señor, ven pronto, antes que muera mi hijo.

50 Jesús le dijo:

— Vuelve a tu casa; tu hijo está ya bien.

Aquel hombre creyó lo que Jesús le había dicho y se fue. 51 Cuando regresaba a casa, le salieron al encuentro sus criados para comunicarle que su hijo estaba curado. 52 Él les preguntó a qué hora había comenzado la mejoría. Los criados le dijeron:

— Ayer, a la una de la tarde, se le quitó la fiebre.

53 El padre comprobó que esa fue precisamente la hora en que Jesús le dijo: “Tu hijo está bien”, y creyeron en Jesús él y todos los suyos.

54 Este segundo milagro lo hizo Jesús cuando volvió de Judea a Galilea.