Font Size
Johannes 4
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Johannes 4
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Jesus och kvinnan vid Sykars brunn
4 När Jesus fick veta att fariseerna hade hört att flera kom till honom än till Johannes för att döpas och bli lärjungar -
2 Jesus döpte dem inte själv utan lärjungarna gjorde det -
3 lämnade han Judeen och återvände till Galileen.
4 På vägen dit var han tvungen att gå genom Samarien.
5-6 När han mitt på dagen närmade sig staden Sykar kom han till Jakobs brunn, som ligger på den mark som Jakob gav sin son Josef. Jesus var trött av den långa vandringen och satte sig vid brunnen.
7 Efter en stund kom en samarisk kvinna för att hämta vatten och Jesus bad henne att få lite att dricka.
8 Han var ensam just då för lärjungarna hade gått in till staden för att köpa mat.
9 Hon blev förvånad över att en jude bad en samarisk kvinna som henne om vatten. Judarna brukade inte ens vilja ha något med dem att göra.
10 Han svarade: Om du bara visste vilken underbar gåva Gud har i beredskap åt dig, och om du anade vem jag är, skulle du i stället be mig om det vatten som leder till liv.
11 Men du har ju varken rep eller hink, sa hon, och det här är en mycket djup brunn. Varifrån ska du få det vattnet?
12 Du är väl inte större än vår förfader Jakob? Kan du ge mig bättre vatten än det som han och hans söner och boskap tyckte så mycket om?
13 Jesus svarade att de som dricker av det vattnet snart blir törstiga igen.
14 Men det vatten jag ger dem, sa han, blir en ständig källa som väller fram inom dem och som alltid flödar med evigt liv.
15 Herre, sa kvinnan. Ge mig lite av det vattnet. Sedan behöver jag aldrig vara törstig mer och gå den långa vägen hit ut varje dag.
16 Gå och hämta din man, sa Jesus till henne.
17-18 Men jag är ju inte gift, svarade hon.Alldeles riktigt, sa Jesus. Du har haft fem män, och du är inte heller gift med den man som du bor ihop med nu. Du kunde inte sagt ett sannare ord.
19 Herre, sa kvinnan. Du måste vara en profet.
20 Men säg mig hur kommer det sig att ni judar påstår att Jerusalem är den enda plats där man ska fira gudstjänst, medan vi samarier menar att det ska ske här på det berg där våra förfäder firade sina gudstjänster?
21-22 ,
23-24 Jesus förklarade: Den tid kommer när människor inte längre behöver diskutera om de ska be till Fadern här på detta berg eller i Jerusalem. Det är inte var man ber som är det viktiga, utan hur man ber. Frågan är om vår bön är andlig och äkta? För Gud är Ande. Det är så Gud vill att vi ska be. Men ni samarier vet så lite om honom, ni vet inte hur ni ska be, men vi judar känner honom väl, för frälsningen kommer till världen genom judarna.
25 Kvinnan sa: Ja, jag vet att Messias ska komma en gång, den som de kallar Kristus, och när han kommer ska han förklara alltsammans för oss.
26 Då sa Jesus till henne: Det är jag som är Messias.
Jesus talar om en andlig skörd
27 Just då kom lärjungarna tillbaka. De blev förvånade när de såg att han talade med en kvinna, men ingen av dem frågade honom varför eller vad de samtalade om.
28-29 Då lämnade kvinnan sin vattenkruka vid brunnen och sprang tillbaka till staden och ropade till alla: Kom och träffa en man som har berättat för mig om allt vad jag har gjort! Jag undrar om inte han är Messias?
30 Och folk strömmade nyfikna ut från staden för att få se honom.
31 Under tiden ville lärjungarna ge Jesus någonting att äta,
32 men han tackade nej och sa: Jag har mat som ni inte känner till.
33 Lärjungarna sa då till varandra: Vem har gett honom mat?
34 Då förklarade Jesus: Min mat är att göra hans vilja som har sänt mig och att utföra hans uppdrag.
35 Tror ni inte att man börjar skörda förrän om fyra månader när sommaren är slut? Se er omkring. Stora fält är mogna och färdiga att skördas.
36 Skördearbetarna som för människor till evigt liv ska få god lön. Vilken glädje väntar inte både den som sår och den som skördar!
37 För det är sant att en sår och en annan skördar.
38 Jag sänder ut er att skörda där ni inte har sått. Andra har utfört arbetet och ni får bärga skörden.
Många samarier kommer till tro
39 Många människor i staden Sykar trodde nu att Jesus var Messias därför att kvinnan sagt: Han visste allt om mig.
40-41 När de kom till brunnen för att se honom bad de honom att stanna kvar hos dem. Det gjorde han också under två dagar, och det var tillräckligt för att ännu fler skulle komma till tro när de lyssnade på honom.
42 Sedan sa de till kvinnan: Nu tror vi därför att vi själva har hört honom, inte på grund av vad du berättade för oss. Han är verkligen världens Frälsare.
Jesus beger sig till Galileen för att predika
43-44 Två dagar senare fortsatte Jesus till Galileen. Han hade själv sagt: En profet blir hedrad överallt utom i sin egen hemtrakt.
45 Men galileerna tog emot honom med öppna armar för de hade varit i Jerusalem under påskhögtiden och sett en del av hans under.
Jesus botar en regeringstjänstemans son
46-47 Under vandringen genom Galileen kom han till staden Kana där han en gång hade förvandlat vatten till vin. En regeringstjänsteman, som bodde i staden Kafarnaum, hade en son som var svårt sjuk. När han hörde att Jesus hade kommit från Judeen och var på väg genom Galileen gick han till Kana. Där träffade han Jesus och han bad honom följa med till Kafarnaum och bota pojken som låg döende.
48 Jesus frågade: Kan ni verkligen inte tro på mig, om ni inte ständigt får se under?
49 Men mannen bad: Herre, kom med innan min pojke dör.
50 Då sa Jesus till honom: Gå hem igen. Din son är botad. Mannen trodde på vad Jesus sa och begav sig hem.
51 Medan han var på väg möttes han av några av sina tjänare med nyheten att allt var väl och att pojken hade blivit frisk.
52 Han frågade dem då när han hade börjat må bättre. De svarade: I går eftermiddag vid ettiden försvann plötsligt febern.
53 Då förstod fadern att det hänt i samma ögonblick som Jesus hade sagt till honom: Din son är botad. Och regeringstjänstemannen och hela hans familj blev övertygade om att Jesus var Messias.
54 Detta var det andra under Jesus gjorde i Galileen sedan han hade kommit dit från Judeen.
John 4
GOD’S WORD Translation
John 4
GOD’S WORD Translation
A Samaritan Woman Meets Jesus at a Well
4 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John. 2 (Actually, Jesus was not baptizing people. His disciples were.) 3 So he left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.
4 Jesus had to go through Samaria. 5 He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus sat down by the well because he was tired from traveling. The time was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman went to get some water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” 8 (His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.)
9 The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can a Jewish man like you ask a Samaritan woman like me for a drink of water?” (Jews, of course, don’t associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus replied to her, “If you only knew what God’s gift is and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink. He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have anything to use to get water, and the well is deep. So where are you going to get this living water? 12 You’re not more important than our ancestor Jacob, are you? He gave us this well. He and his sons and his animals drank water from it.”
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water that I will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give them will become in them a spring that gushes up to eternal life.”
15 The woman told Jesus, “Sir, give me this water! Then I won’t get thirsty or have to come here to get water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go to your husband, and bring him here.”
17 The woman replied, “I don’t have a husband.”
Jesus told her, “You’re right when you say that you don’t have a husband. 18 You’ve had five husbands, and the man you have now isn’t your husband. You’ve told the truth.”
19 The woman said to Jesus, “I see that you’re a prophet! 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that people must worship in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus told her, “Believe me. A time is coming when you Samaritans won’t be worshiping the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You don’t know what you’re worshiping. We ⌞Jews⌟ know what we’re worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. 23 Indeed, the time is coming, and it is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for people like that to worship him. 24 God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us everything.” (Messiah is the one called Christ.)
26 Jesus told her, “I am he, and I am speaking to you now.”
27 At that time his disciples returned. They were surprised that he was talking to a woman. But none of them asked him, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people, 29 “Come with me, and meet a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” 30 The people left the city and went to meet Jesus.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, have something to eat.”
32 Jesus told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 The disciples asked each other, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”
34 Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
35 “Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested. 36 The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together. 37 In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’ 38 I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.”
39 Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days. 41 Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said. 42 They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.”
A Believing Official(A)
43 After spending two days in Samaria, Jesus left for Galilee. 44 Jesus had said that a prophet is not honored in his own country. 45 But when Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people of Galilee welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done at the festival in Jerusalem, since they, too, had attended the festival.
46 Jesus returned to the city of Cana in Galilee, where he had changed water into wine. A government official was in Cana. His son was sick in Capernaum. 47 The official heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee. So he went to Jesus and asked him to go to Capernaum with him to heal his son who was about to die.
48 Jesus told the official, “If people don’t see miracles and amazing things, they won’t believe.”
49 The official said to him, “Sir, come with me before my little boy dies.”
50 Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and left.
51 While the official was on his way to Capernaum, his servants met him and told him that his boy was alive. 52 The official asked them at what time his son got better. His servants told him, “The fever left him yesterday evening at seven o’clock.” 53 Then the boy’s father realized that it was the same time that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So the official and his entire family became believers.
54 This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he had come back from Judea to Galilee.
John 4
New International Version
John 4
New International Version
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
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln) (SVL)
Copyright © 1974, 1977, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2004 by Biblica
GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020 by God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.