Johannes 4
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Jesus och den samariska kvinnan
4 Jesus insåg att fariseerna hade fått höra att han hade fler lärjungar än Johannes och döpte fler – 2 fast det var inte Jesus själv som döpte utan hans lärjungar. 3 Jesus lämnade därför Judeen och återvände till Galileen.
4 På vägen dit var han tvungen att gå genom Samarien[a] 5 och så kom han till en stad i Samarien som heter Sykar och som ligger nära den mark som Jakob gav sin son Josef. 6 Där ligger också Jakobs brunn och eftersom det var mitt på dagen och Jesus var trött av vandringen, satte han sig vid brunnen.
7 Då kom en samarisk kvinna för att hämta vatten och Jesus bad henne: ”Ge mig lite att dricka!” 8 Hans lärjungar hade gått in till staden för att köpa mat. 9 Den samariska kvinnan sa: ”Du som är jude, hur kan du be mig, en samarisk kvinna, om vatten?” Judarna brukade nämligen inte ha något gemensamt med samarierna.
10 Jesus svarade: ”Om du kände till Guds gåva och vem det är som ber dig om något att dricka, så skulle du ha bett honom och han skulle ha gett dig levande vatten.”
11 ”Men, Herre, du har ju varken rep eller kruka”, sa hon, ”och brunnen är djup. Varifrån ska du få levande vatten? 12 Du är väl inte större än vår förfader Jakob som gav oss den här brunnen och som han själv och hans söner och boskap drack av?”
13 Jesus svarade: ”Den som dricker av det här vattnet blir snart törstig igen. 14 Men den som dricker av det vatten jag ger blir aldrig i evighet törstig igen för mitt vatten blir en källa inom honom som porlar fram och ger evigt liv.”
15 ”Herre”, sa kvinnan, ”ge mig av det vattnet, så att jag aldrig mer blir törstig och slipper gå ut hit och hämta vatten!”
16 Men Jesus sa: ”Gå och hämta din man!”
17 ”Jag har ingen man”, svarade kvinnan.
”Du har rätt när du säger att du inte har någon man”, sa Jesus. 18 ”Du har haft fem män och den du har nu är inte din man. Där höll du dig till sanningen.”
19 ”Herre”, sa kvinnan, ”jag ser att du är en profet. 20 Våra förfäder har tillbett på det här berget[b], men ni säger att den plats där man ska tillbe finns i Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus sa till henne: ”Tro mig, kvinna det kommer en tid då det varken är på det här berget eller i Jerusalem som ni ska tillbe Fadern. 22 Ni tillber vad ni inte känner. Vi tillber vad vi känner eftersom räddningen kommer från judarna. 23 Men den tid kommer, ja, den har redan kommit, då sanna tillbedjare tillber Fadern i ande och sanning, för det är sådana tillbedjare Fadern söker. 24 Gud är Ande och de som tillber honom måste tillbe i ande och sanning.”
25 Kvinnan sa: ”Ja, jag vet att Messias ska komma, han som kallas Kristus, och när han kommer ska han förklara allt för oss.”
26 Då sa Jesus till henne: ”Det är jag, den som talar till dig.”
27 Just då kom hans lärjungar tillbaka. De blev mycket förvånade över att han talade med en kvinna, men ingen av dem frågade honom varför han talade med henne eller vad de talade om.
28 Men kvinnan lämnade sin vattenkruka vid brunnen och gick tillbaka till staden och sa till alla: 29 ”Kom så får ni träffa en man som kunde säga mig allt vad jag har gjort! Kan han vara Messias?” 30 Och folket strömmade ut från staden för att träffa Jesus.
31 Under tiden ville lärjungarna ge sin Mästare något att äta 32 men han sa: ”Jag har mat som ni inte känner till.”
33 Hans lärjungar sa då till varandra: ”Kan någon ha kommit hit och gett honom mat?”
34 Då sa Jesus: ”Min mat är att göra hans vilja som har sänt mig och att slutföra det uppdrag han har gett mig. 35 Ni säger att om fyra månader är det dags att skörda. Men jag säger: Se er omkring! Fälten har redan ljusnat och är mogna för skörd. 36 Redan nu får skördearbetaren sin lön. Han skördar frukt till evigt liv så att både den som sår och den som skördar får glädjas tillsammans. 37 För här gäller ordspråket: en sår och en annan skördar. 38 Jag har sänt ut er för att skörda där ni inte har arbetat. Andra har utfört arbetet och ni ska få lön för deras möda.”
Många samarier kommer till tro
39 Många samarier från den staden kom till tro på honom när de hörde kvinnan vittna: ”Han kunde säga mig allt vad jag har gjort.” 40 Så när samarierna kom ut till honom bad de honom att stanna hos dem och han stannade där i två dagar. 41 När de då fick höra honom själv tala, var det ännu fler som började tro på honom 42 och de sa till kvinnan: ”Nu är det inte längre det som du berättade för oss som får oss att tro. Nej, nu har vi själva hört honom och förstått att han verkligen är den som ska rädda världen.”
Jesus botar en kunglig tjänstemans son
43 Efter de två dagarna fortsatte Jesus till Galileen. 44 Han hade själv vittnat om att en profet inte blir respekterad i sin egen hemstad. 45 Men när han nu kom till Galileen, tog galileerna emot honom med öppna armar eftersom de hade varit i Jerusalem under påskhögtiden och sett vad han gjort där.
46 I Galileen kom han också tillbaka till Kana där han en gång hade förvandlat vatten till vin. En man i kunglig[c] tjänst hade en son som låg sjuk i Kafarnaum. 47 När mannen därför fick höra att Jesus hade kommit från Judeen och var i Galileen, gick han till honom och bad honom att följa med till Kafarnaum för att bota hans son som låg döende.
48 Jesus sa: ”Ni tror inte, om ni inte får se tecken och under!”
49 Mannen bad: ”Herre, kom innan mitt barn dör!”
50 Då sa Jesus till honom: ”Gå hem igen! Din son lever.” Mannen trodde på vad Jesus sa och gick. 51 Medan han fortfarande var på väg, möttes han av sina tjänare som meddelade att pojken levde. 52 Han frågade dem då vid vilken tid på dagen pojken hade börjat bli bättre och de svarade: ”Igår eftermiddag vid ettiden försvann febern.” 53 Då förstod fadern att det hade hänt i samma stund som Jesus hade sagt till honom: ”Din son lever.” Och tjänstemannen och alla i hans hus började tro på Jesus.
54 Detta var det andra tecknet Jesus gjorde och han gjorde det när han hade kommit från Judeen till Galileen.
Footnotes
- 4:4 Samarien låg mellan Galileen och Judeen. Invånarna var judar som uppblandats med andra folk. Det rådde fiendskap mellan dem och judarna.
- 4:20 Samarierna hade ett eget tempel på berget Gerissim.
- 4:46 Mannen arbetade för kung Herodes, som styrde över Galileen och Pereen och var son till den Herodes som regerade då Jesus föddes.
John 4
The Message
The Woman at the Well
4 1-3 Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing). They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and John into rivals in the eyes of the people. So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.
4-6 To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon.
7-8 A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?” (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)
9 The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, “How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (Jews in those days wouldn’t be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.”
11-12 The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?”
13-14 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.”
15 The woman said, “Sir, give me this water so I won’t ever get thirsty, won’t ever have to come back to this well again!”
16 He said, “Go call your husband and then come back.”
17-18 “I have no husband,” she said.
“That’s nicely put: ‘I have no husband.’ You’ve had five husbands, and the man you’re living with now isn’t even your husband. You spoke the truth there, sure enough.”
19-20 “Oh, so you’re a prophet! Well, tell me this: Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?”
21-23 “Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. You worship guessing in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day. God’s way of salvation is made available through the Jews. But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.
23-24 “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
25 The woman said, “I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story.”
26 “I am he,” said Jesus. “You don’t have to wait any longer or look any further.”
27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn’t believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.
28-30 The woman took the hint and left. In her confusion she left her water pot. Back in the village she told the people, “Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. Do you think this could be the Messiah?” And they went out to see for themselves.
It’s Harvest Time
31 In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, “Rabbi, eat. Aren’t you going to eat?”
32 He told them, “I have food to eat you know nothing about.”
33 The disciples were puzzled. “Who could have brought him food?”
34-35 Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!
36-38 “The Harvester isn’t waiting. He’s taking his pay, gathering in this grain that’s ripe for eternal life. Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant. That’s the truth of the saying, ‘This one sows, that one harvests.’ I sent you to harvest a field you never worked. Without lifting a finger, you have walked in on a field worked long and hard by others.”
39-42 Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman’s witness: “He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!” They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days. A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say. They said to the woman, “We’re no longer taking this on your say-so. We’ve heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He’s the Savior of the world!”
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43-45 After the two days he left for Galilee. Now, Jesus knew well from experience that a prophet is not respected in the place where he grew up. So when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, but only because they were impressed with what he had done in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast, not that they really had a clue about who he was or what he was up to.
46-48 Now he was back in Cana of Galilee, the place where he made the water into wine. Meanwhile in Capernaum, there was a certain official from the king’s court whose son was sick. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked that he come down and heal his son, who was on the brink of death. Jesus put him off: “Unless you people are dazzled by a miracle, you refuse to believe.”
49 But the court official wouldn’t be put off. “Come down! It’s life or death for my son.”
50-51 Jesus simply replied, “Go home. Your son lives.”
The man believed the bare word Jesus spoke and headed home. On his way back, his servants intercepted him and announced, “Your son lives!”
52-53 He asked them what time he began to get better. They said, “The fever broke yesterday afternoon at one o’clock.” The father knew that that was the very moment Jesus had said, “Your son lives.”
53-54 That settled it. Not only he but his entire household believed. This was now the second sign Jesus gave after having come from Judea into Galilee.
John 4
New King James Version
A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and (A)baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 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. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 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.
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