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
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.
Иохан 4
Священное Писание (Восточный Перевод)
Самарянка у колодца
4 Блюстители Закона услышали о том, что Иса приобретал и погружал в воду[a] больше учеников, чем Яхия, 2 хотя на самом деле совершал обряд погружения в воду[b] не Иса, а Его ученики. 3 Когда Иса узнал, что о Нём говорят, Он покинул Иудею и направился обратно в Галилею. 4 Путь Его лежал через Самарию, 5 и Он пришёл в самарийский город Сихарь, расположенный недалеко от участка земли, который Якуб некогда дал своему сыну Юсуфу[c]. 6 Там был колодец Якуба, и Иса, уставший после дороги, сел у колодца отдохнуть. Это было около полудня.
7 К колодцу пришла за водой одна самарийская[d] женщина.
– Дай Мне, пожалуйста, напиться воды, – попросил её Иса.
8 Ученики Его в это время пошли в город купить еды.
9 Самарянка удивилась:
– Ты иудей, а я самарянка, как это Ты можешь просить у меня напиться? (Дело в том, что иудеи не общаются с самарянами.[e])
10 Иса ответил ей:
– Если бы ты знала о даре Всевышнего и о том, Кто просит у тебя напиться, ты бы сама попросила Его, и Он дал бы тебе живой воды.
11 Женщина сказала:
– Господин, Тебе и зачерпнуть-то нечем, а колодец глубок. Откуда же у Тебя живая вода? 12 Неужели Ты больше нашего предка Якуба, который оставил нам этот колодец и сам пил из него, и его сыновья пили, и стада его пили?
13 Иса ответил:
– Кто пьёт эту воду, тот опять захочет пить. 14 Тот же, кто пьёт воду, которую Я дам ему, никогда больше не будет мучим жаждой. Вода, которую Я ему дам, станет в нём источником, текущим в вечную жизнь.
15 Женщина сказала Ему:
– Господин, так дай же мне такой воды, чтобы я больше не хотела пить и мне не нужно было приходить сюда за водой.
16 Он сказал ей:
– Пойди, позови своего мужа и возвращайся сюда.
17 – У меня нет мужа, – ответила женщина.
Иса сказал ей:
– Ты права, когда говоришь, что у тебя нет мужа. 18 Ведь у тебя было пять мужей, и тот, с кем ты сейчас живёшь, не муж тебе; это ты правду сказала.
19 – Господин, – сказала женщина, – я вижу, что Ты пророк. 20 Так объясни же мне, почему наши отцы поклонялись на этой горе[f], а вы, иудеи, говорите, что Всевышнему следует поклоняться в Иерусалиме?
21 Иса ответил:
– Поверь Мне, женщина, настанет время, когда вы будете поклоняться Отцу не на этой горе и не в Иерусалиме. 22 Вы, самаряне, и сами толком не знаете, чему вы поклоняетесь, мы же знаем, чему поклоняемся, ведь спасение – от иудеев. 23 Но наступит время, и уже наступило, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Небесному Отцу в духе и истине, потому что именно таких поклонников ищет Себе Отец. 24 Всевышний есть Дух, и поклоняющиеся Ему должны поклоняться в духе и истине.
25 Женщина сказала:
– Я знаю, что должен прийти Масих[g] (то есть «Помазанник»); вот когда Он придёт, Он нам всё и объяснит.
26 Иса сказал ей:
– Это Я, Тот, Кто говорит с тобой.
О духовной жатве
27 В это время возвратились Его ученики и удивились, что Иса разговаривает с женщиной. Но никто, однако, не спросил, что Он хотел и почему Он с ней говорил. 28 Женщина оставила свой кувшин для воды, вернулась в город и сказала людям:
29 – Идите и посмотрите на Человека, Который рассказал мне всё, что я сделала. Не Масих ли Он?
30 Народ из города пошёл к Исе. 31 В это время Его ученики настаивали:
– Учитель, поешь что-нибудь.
32 Но Он сказал им:
– У Меня есть пища, о которой вы не знаете.
33 Тогда ученики стали переговариваться:
– Может, кто-то принёс Ему поесть?
34 – Пища Моя состоит в том, – сказал Иса, – чтобы исполнить волю Пославшего Меня и совершить Его дело.
35 – Разве вы не говорите: «Ещё четыре месяца, и будет жатва»? А Я говорю вам: поднимите глаза и посмотрите на поля, как они уже созрели для жатвы! 36 Жнец получает свою награду! Он собирает урожай для жизни вечной, чтобы радовались вместе и сеятель, и жнец. 37 В этом случае верно изречение: один сеет, а другой жнёт. 38 Я послал вас жать то, над чем вы не трудились. Другие много поработали, вы же пожинаете плоды их трудов.
Уверование самарян
39 Многие самаряне, жители этого города, уверовали в Ису, потому что женщина сказала:
– Он рассказал мне всё, что я сделала.
40 Самаряне пришли к Нему и стали упрашивать Его остаться с ними, и Иса провёл там два дня. 41 И ещё больше людей уверовали в Него из-за Его слов. 42 Они говорили женщине:
– Мы верим уже не только по твоим словам. Теперь мы сами слышали и знаем, что Этот Человек действительно Спаситель мира.
Исцеление сына придворного
43 Через два дня Иса отправился оттуда в Галилею. 44 Он и Сам говорил, что пророк не имеет чести у себя на родине. 45 Однако когда Он пришёл в Галилею, галилеяне Его радушно приняли, но только потому, что были в Иерусалиме на празднике Освобождения и видели все чудеса, которые Иса там совершил.
46 Иса ещё раз посетил Кану Галилейскую, где Он превратил воду в вино. В Капернауме был один придворный, у которого болел сын. 47 Когда этот человек услышал о том, что Иса пришёл из Иудеи в Галилею, он пришёл к Нему и умолял Его исцелить сына, который был при смерти.
48 Иса сказал ему:
– Люди, почему вы не можете поверить, пока не увидите чудес и знамений?
49 Но придворный лишь умолял:
– Господин, пойдём, пока сын мой ещё не умер.
50 Иса ответил:
– Иди, твой сын будет жить.
Человек поверил слову Исы и пошёл. 51 Он был ещё в пути, когда рабы встретили его и сообщили, что мальчику полегчало. 52 Он спросил, в котором часу ему стало легче, и они сказали:
– Вчера в час дня жар у него прошёл.
53 Отец понял, что это произошло именно тогда, когда Иса сказал ему: «Твой сын будет жить».
Придворный и все его домашние уверовали. 54 Это было второе знамение, сотворённое Исой в Галилее по приходе Его из Иудеи.
Footnotes
- 4:1 Или: «омывал».
- 4:2 Или: «обряд омовения».
- 4:5 См. Нач. 33:18-19; 48:21-22.
- 4:7 Самаряне – этот народ имеет смешанное происхождение. Потомки десяти северных родов Исраила и переселенцев из других частей Ассирийской империи, они признают только Таурат, но не другие книги Писания.
- 4:9 Или: «иудеи не пользуются общей посудой с самарянами». Для иудея самаряне были ритуально нечистым народом, и поэтому пользование их посудой влекло за собой церемониальное осквернение.
- 4:20 Самаряне поклонялись Всевышнему на горе Геризим, которая находится на расстоянии более 40 км севернее от Иерусалима.
- 4:25 Масих – самаряне, также как и иудеи, ожидали Масиха. Но, признавая только Таурат, они не могли считать Его Царём из потомков Давуда. По их понятиям Масих, Которого они называли Тахеб, должен был быть пророком, учителем и законодателем, подобным Мусе, Который разрешит все их проблемы (см. Втор. 18:15-18).
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