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Johannes 4
Schlachter 2000
Johannes 4
Schlachter 2000
Jesus und die Frau aus Samaria. Das Wasser des Lebens. Die wahren Anbeter Gottes
4 Als nun der Herr erfuhr, dass die Pharisäer gehört hatten, dass Jesus mehr Jünger mache und taufe als Johannes
2 — obwohl Jesus nicht selbst taufte, sondern seine Jünger —,
3 da verließ er Judäa und zog wieder nach Galiläa.
4 Er musste aber durch Samaria reisen.
5 Da kommt er in eine Stadt Samarias, genannt Sichar, nahe bei dem Feld, das Jakob seinem Sohn Joseph gab.
6 Es war aber dort Jakobs Brunnen. Weil nun Jesus müde war von der Reise, setzte er sich so an den Brunnen; es war um die sechste Stunde.
7 Da kommt eine Frau aus Samaria, um Wasser zu schöpfen. Jesus spricht zu ihr: Gib mir zu trinken!
8 Denn seine Jünger waren in die Stadt gegangen, um Speise zu kaufen.
9 Nun spricht die samaritische Frau zu ihm: Wie erbittest du als ein Jude von mir etwas zu trinken, da ich doch eine samaritische Frau bin? (Denn die Juden haben keinen Umgang mit den Samaritern[a].)
10 Jesus antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Wenn du die Gabe Gottes erkennen würdest und wer der ist, der zu dir spricht: Gib mir zu trinken!, so würdest du ihn bitten, und er gäbe dir lebendiges Wasser.
11 Die Frau spricht zu ihm: Herr, du hast ja keinen Eimer, und der Brunnen ist tief; woher hast du denn das lebendige Wasser?
12 Bist du größer als unser Vater Jakob, der uns den Brunnen gegeben und selbst daraus getrunken hat, samt seinen Söhnen und seinem Vieh?
13 Jesus antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Jeden, der von diesem Wasser trinkt, wird wieder dürsten.
14 Wer aber von dem Wasser trinkt, das ich ihm geben werde, den wird in Ewigkeit nicht dürsten, sondern das Wasser, das ich ihm geben werde, wird in ihm zu einer Quelle von Wasser werden, das bis ins ewige Leben quillt.
15 Die Frau spricht zu ihm: Herr, gib mir dieses Wasser, damit ich nicht dürste und nicht hierherkommen muss, um zu schöpfen!
16 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Geh hin, rufe deinen Mann und komm her!
17 Die Frau antwortete und sprach: Ich habe keinen Mann! Jesus spricht zu ihr: Du hast recht gesagt: Ich habe keinen Mann!
18 Denn fünf Männer hast du gehabt, und der, den du jetzt hast, ist nicht dein Mann. Da hast du die Wahrheit gesprochen!
19 Die Frau spricht zu ihm: Herr, ich sehe, dass du ein Prophet bist!
20 Unsere Väter haben auf diesem Berg angebetet,[b] und ihr sagt, in Jerusalem sei der Ort, wo man anbeten soll.
21 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Frau, glaube mir, es kommt die Stunde, wo ihr weder auf diesem Berg noch in Jerusalem den Vater anbeten werdet.
22 Ihr betet an, was ihr nicht kennt; wir beten an, was wir kennen, denn das Heil kommt aus den Juden.
23 Aber die Stunde kommt und ist schon da, wo die wahren Anbeter den Vater im Geist und in der Wahrheit anbeten werden; denn der Vater sucht solche Anbeter.
24 Gott ist Geist, und die ihn anbeten, müssen ihn im Geist und in der Wahrheit anbeten.
25 Die Frau spricht zu ihm: Ich weiß, dass der Messias kommt, welcher Christus genannt wird; wenn dieser kommt, wird er uns alles verkündigen.
26 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Ich bin’s, der mit dir redet!
27 Unterdessen kamen seine Jünger und verwunderten sich, dass er mit einer Frau redete.[c] Doch sagte keiner: Was willst du? oder: Was redest du mit ihr?
28 Nun ließ die Frau ihren Wasserkrug stehen und lief in die Stadt und sprach zu den Leuten:
29 Kommt, seht einen Menschen, der mir alles gesagt hat, was ich getan habe! Ob dieser nicht der Christus ist?
30 Da gingen sie aus der Stadt hinaus und kamen zu ihm.
Das weiße Erntefeld
31 Inzwischen aber baten ihn die Jünger und sprachen: Rabbi, iss!
32 Er aber sprach zu ihnen: Ich habe eine Speise zu essen, die ihr nicht kennt!
33 Da sprachen die Jünger zueinander: Hat ihm denn jemand zu essen gebracht?
34 Jesus spricht zu ihnen: Meine Speise ist die, dass ich den Willen dessen tue, der mich gesandt hat, und sein Werk vollbringe.
35 Sagt ihr nicht: Es sind noch vier Monate, dann kommt die Ernte? Siehe, ich sage euch: Hebt eure Augen auf und seht die Felder an; sie sind schon weiß zur Ernte.
36 Und wer erntet, der empfängt Lohn und sammelt Frucht zum ewigen Leben, damit sich der Sämann und der Schnitter miteinander freuen.
37 Denn hier ist der Spruch wahr: Der eine sät, der andere erntet.
38 Ich habe euch ausgesandt zu ernten, woran ihr nicht gearbeitet habt; andere haben gearbeitet, und ihr seid in ihre Arbeit eingetreten.
Der Glaube der Samariter
39 Aus jener Stadt aber glaubten viele Samariter an ihn um des Wortes der Frau willen, die bezeugte: Er hat mir alles gesagt, was ich getan habe.
40 Als nun die Samariter zu ihm kamen, baten sie ihn, bei ihnen zu bleiben; und er blieb zwei Tage dort.
41 Und noch viel mehr Leute glaubten um seines Wortes willen.
42 Und zu der Frau sprachen sie: Nun glauben wir nicht mehr um deiner Rede willen; wir haben selbst gehört und erkannt, dass dieser wahrhaftig der Retter der Welt, der Christus ist!
Jesus heilt den Sohn eines königlichen Beamten
43 Nach den zwei Tagen aber zog er fort und ging nach Galiläa.
44 Jesus selbst bezeugte zwar, dass ein Prophet in seinem eigenen Vaterland nicht geachtet wird.
45 Als er aber nun nach Galiläa kam, nahmen ihn die Galiläer auf, weil sie alles gesehen hatten, was er während des Festes in Jerusalem getan hatte; denn auch sie waren zu dem Fest gekommen.
46 Jesus kam nun wieder nach Kana in Galiläa, wo er das Wasser zu Wein gemacht hatte. Und da gab es einen königlichen Beamten, dessen Sohn lag krank in Kapernaum.
47 Als dieser hörte, dass Jesus aus Judäa nach Galiläa gekommen sei, ging er zu ihm und bat ihn, er möchte herabkommen und seinen Sohn gesund machen; denn er lag im Sterben.
48 Da sprach Jesus zu ihm: Wenn ihr nicht Zeichen und Wunder seht, so glaubt ihr nicht!
49 Der königliche Beamte spricht zu ihm: Herr, komm herab, ehe mein Kind stirbt!
50 Jesus spricht zu ihm: Geh hin, dein Sohn lebt! Und der Mensch glaubte dem Wort, das Jesus zu ihm sprach, und ging hin.
51 Als er aber noch unterwegs war, kamen ihm seine Knechte entgegen und berichteten ihm und sprachen: Dein Sohn lebt!
52 Nun erkundigte er sich bei ihnen nach der Stunde, in welcher es mit ihm besser geworden war. Und sie sprachen zu ihm: Gestern um die siebte Stunde verließ ihn das Fieber.
53 Da erkannte der Vater, dass es eben in der Stunde geschehen war, in welcher Jesus zu ihm gesagt hatte: Dein Sohn lebt! Und er glaubte samt seinem ganzen Haus.
54 Dies ist das zweite Zeichen, das Jesus wiederum tat, als er aus Judäa nach Galiläa kam.
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
John 4
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John 4
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Jesus Meets a Samaritan Woman
4 Now when Jesus[a] realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples— 3 he left Judea and went back to Galilee. 4 Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.[b]
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, “Please give me a drink,” 8 since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.[c]
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 The woman[d] told him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? 12 You’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?”
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman told him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I won’t get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go and call your husband, and come back here.”
17 The woman answered him, “I don’t have a husband.”
Jesus told her, “You are quite right in saying, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ 18 because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 The woman told him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet! 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews[e] say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus told her, “Believe me, dear lady,[f] the hour is coming when you Samaritans[g] will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You don’t know what you’re worshiping. We Jews[h] know what we’re worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. 23 Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit[i] and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him. 24 God is spirit,[j] and those who worship him must worship in spirit[k] and truth.”
25 The woman told him, “I know that the Anointed One[l] is coming, who is being called ‘the Messiah’.[m] When that person comes, he will explain everything.”
26 “I AM,” Jesus replied, “the one who is speaking to you.”
27 At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want from her?”[n] or, “Why are you talking to her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?”[o] 30 The people[p] left the town and started on their way to him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi,[q] have something to eat.”
32 But he told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?”
34 Jesus told them, “My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work. 35 You say, don’t you, ‘In four more months the harvest will begin?’ Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready[r] for harvesting now! 36 The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together. 37 In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person sows, and another person harvests.’[s] 38 I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own.”
39 Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus[t] because the woman had testified, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus,[u] they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. 41 And many more believed because of what he said. 42 They kept telling the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son(A)
43 Two days later, Jesus[v] left for Galilee from there, 44 since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival. 46 So Jesus[w] returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, “Unless you people[x] see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”
49 The official told him, “Sir,[y] please come down before my little boy dies.”
50 Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.
51 While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child[z] was alive. 52 So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon.”[aa]
53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole family.
54 Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:1 Other mss. read the Lord
- John 4:6 Lit. the sixth hour
- John 4:9 Other mss. lack For Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.
- John 4:11 Other mss. read She
- John 4:20 The Gk. lacks Jews
- John 4:21 Or me, woman
- John 4:21 The Gk. lacks Samaritans
- John 4:22 The Gk. lacks Jews
- John 4:23 Or in the Spirit
- John 4:24 Or Spirit
- John 4:24 Or in the Spirit
- John 4:25 The Gk. word messias is a transliteration of the Heb. word for Messiah
- John 4:25 Or Christ
- John 4:27 The Gk. lacks from her
- John 4:29 Or Christ
- John 4:30 Lit. They
- John 4:31 Rabbi is Heb. for Master and/or Teacher
- John 4:35 Lit. white
- John 4:37 Cf. Mic 6:15
- John 4:39 Lit. in him
- John 4:40 Lit. him
- John 4:43 Lit. he
- John 4:46 Lit. he
- John 4:48 The Gk. lacks people
- John 4:49 Or Lord
- John 4:51 Other mss. read son
- John 4:52 Lit. the seventh hour
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