John 4
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 When Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees(A) had heard he was making(B) and baptising more disciples than John(C) 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptising, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea(D) and went again to Galilee.(E) 4 He had to travel through Samaria;(F) 5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[b] that Jacob(G) had given his son Joseph.(H) 6 Jacob’s well(I) was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[c]
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.(J)
‘Give me a drink,’ Jesus said to her, 8 because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 ‘How is it that you, a Jew,(K) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan(L) woman? ’ she asked him. For Jews do not associate with[d] Samaritans.[e]
10 Jesus answered, ‘If you knew the gift of God,(M) and who is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would ask him, and he would give you living water.’(N)
11 ‘Sir,’(O) said the woman, ‘you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this “living water”? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,(P) are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.’
13 Jesus said, ‘Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.(Q) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well[f](R) of water springing up in him for eternal life.’(S)
15 ‘Sir,’ the woman said to him, ‘give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.’
16 ‘Go and call your husband,’ he told her, ‘and come back here.’
17 ‘I don’t have a husband,’ she answered.
‘You have correctly said, “I don’t have a husband,” ’ Jesus said. 18 ‘For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.’
19 ‘Sir,’ the woman replied, ‘I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain,(T) but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.’(U)
21 Jesus told her, ‘Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.(V) 23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,(W) when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[g] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit,(X) and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.’(Y)
25 The woman said to him, ‘I know that the Messiah(Z) is coming’ (who is called Christ(AA)). ‘When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’
26 Jesus told her, ‘I, the one speaking to you, am he.’(AB)
The Ripened Harvest
27 Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, ‘What do you want? ’ or ‘Why are you talking with her? ’
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, 29 ‘Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? ’(AC) 30 They left the town and made their way to him.(AD)
31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, ‘Rabbi,(AE) eat something.’
32 But he said, ‘I have food to eat that you don’t know about.’
33 The disciples said to one another, ‘Could someone have brought him something to eat? ’
34 ‘My food is to do the will of him(AF) who sent me(AG) and to finish his work,’(AH) Jesus told them. 35 ‘Don’t you say, “There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest”? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open[h] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[i] for harvest. 36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true: “One sows and another reaps.”(AJ) 38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t labour for; others have laboured, and you have benefited from[j] their labour.’
The Saviour of the World
39 Now many Samaritans(AK) from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[k] when she testified,(AL) ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ 40 So when the Samaritans came to him,(AM) they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. 41 Many more believed because of what he said.[l] 42 And they told the woman, ‘We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Saviour(AN) of the world.’[m]
A Galilean Welcome
43 After two days he left there for Galilee.(AO) 44 (Jesus himself had testified(AP) that a prophet has no honour in his own country.(AQ)) 45 When(AR) they entered Galilee, the Galileans(AS) welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem(AT) during the festival.(AU) For they also had gone to the festival.
The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son
46 He went again to Cana(AV) of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.(AW) 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea(AX) into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, ‘Unless you people see signs and wonders,(AY) you will not believe.’(AZ)
49 ‘Sir,’(BA) the official said to him, ‘come down before my boy dies.’
50 ‘Go,’ Jesus told him, ‘your son will live.’ The man believed what[n] Jesus said to him and departed.
51 While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. 52 He asked them at what time he got better. ‘Yesterday at one in the afternoon[o] the fever left him,’ they answered. 53 The father(BB) realised this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, ‘Your son will live.’ So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54 Now this was also the second sign(BC) Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.(BD)
Footnotes
- 4:1 Other mss read the Lord
- 4:5 Lit piece of land
- 4:6 Lit about the sixth hour
- 4:9 Or do not share vessels with
- 4:9 Other mss omit For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
- 4:14 Or spring
- 4:23 Or in spirit and truth, also in v. 24
- 4:35 Lit Raise
- 4:35 Lit white
- 4:38 Lit you have entered into
- 4:39 Lit because of the woman’s word
- 4:41 Lit because of his word
- 4:42 Other mss add, the Messiah
- 4:50 Lit the word
- 4:52 Lit at the seventh hour
João 4
Almeida Revista e Corrigida 2009
A mulher de Samaria
4 E, quando o Senhor veio a saber que os fariseus tinham ouvido que Jesus fazia e batizava mais discípulos do que João 2 (ainda que Jesus mesmo não batizava, mas os seus discípulos), 3 deixou a Judeia e foi outra vez para a Galileia. 4 E era-lhe necessário passar por Samaria. 5 Foi, pois, a uma cidade de Samaria, chamada Sicar, junto da herdade que Jacó tinha dado a seu filho José. 6 E estava ali a fonte de Jacó. Jesus, pois, cansado do caminho, assentou-se assim junto da fonte. Era isso quase à hora sexta.
7 Veio uma mulher de Samaria tirar água. Disse-lhe Jesus: Dá-me de beber. 8 Porque os seus discípulos tinham ido à cidade comprar comida. 9 Disse-lhe, pois, a mulher samaritana: Como, sendo tu judeu, me pedes de beber a mim, que sou mulher samaritana (porque os judeus não se comunicam com os samaritanos)? 10 Jesus respondeu e disse-lhe: Se tu conheceras o dom de Deus e quem é o que te diz: Dá-me de beber, tu lhe pedirias, e ele te daria água viva. 11 Disse-lhe a mulher: Senhor, tu não tens com que a tirar, e o poço é fundo; onde, pois, tens a água viva? 12 És tu maior do que Jacó, o nosso pai, que nos deu o poço, bebendo ele próprio dele, e os seus filhos, e o seu gado? 13 Jesus respondeu e disse-lhe: Qualquer que beber desta água tornará a ter sede, 14 mas aquele que beber da água que eu lhe der nunca terá sede, porque a água que eu lhe der se fará nele uma fonte de água a jorrar para a vida eterna. 15 Disse-lhe a mulher: Senhor, dá-me dessa água, para que não mais tenha sede e não venha aqui tirá-la. 16 Disse-lhe Jesus: Vai, chama o teu marido e vem cá. 17 A mulher respondeu e disse: Não tenho marido. Disse-lhe Jesus: Disseste bem: Não tenho marido, 18 porque tiveste cinco maridos e o que agora tens não é teu marido; isso disseste com verdade.
19 Disse-lhe a mulher: Senhor, vejo que és profeta. 20 Nossos pais adoraram neste monte, e vós dizeis que é em Jerusalém o lugar onde se deve adorar. 21 Disse-lhe Jesus: Mulher, crê-me que a hora vem em que nem neste monte nem em Jerusalém adorareis o Pai. 22 Vós adorais o que não sabeis; nós adoramos o que sabemos porque a salvação vem dos judeus. 23 Mas a hora vem, e agora é, em que os verdadeiros adoradores adorarão o Pai em espírito e em verdade, porque o Pai procura a tais que assim o adorem. 24 Deus é Espírito, e importa que os que o adoram o adorem em espírito e em verdade. 25 A mulher disse-lhe: Eu sei que o Messias (que se chama o Cristo) vem; quando ele vier, nos anunciará tudo. 26 Jesus disse-lhe: Eu o sou, eu que falo contigo. 27 E nisso vieram os seus discípulos e maravilharam-se de que estivesse falando com uma mulher; todavia, nenhum lhe disse: Que perguntas? ou: Por que falas com ela? 28 Deixou, pois, a mulher o seu cântaro, e foi à cidade, e disse àqueles homens: 29 Vinde e vede um homem que me disse tudo quanto tenho feito; porventura, não é este o Cristo? 30 Saíram, pois, da cidade e foram ter com ele.
A ceifa e os ceifeiros
31 E, entretanto, os seus discípulos lhe rogaram, dizendo: Rabi, come. 32 Porém ele lhes disse: Uma comida tenho para comer, que vós não conheceis. 33 Então, os discípulos diziam uns aos outros: Trouxe-lhe, porventura, alguém de comer? 34 Jesus disse-lhes: A minha comida é fazer a vontade daquele que me enviou e realizar a sua obra. 35 Não dizeis vós que ainda há quatro meses até que venha a ceifa? Eis que eu vos digo: levantai os vossos olhos e vede as terras, que já estão brancas para a ceifa. 36 E o que ceifa recebe galardão e ajunta fruto para a vida eterna, para que, assim o que semeia como o que ceifa, ambos se regozijem. 37 Porque nisso é verdadeiro o ditado: Um é o que semeia, e outro, o que ceifa. 38 Eu vos enviei a ceifar onde vós não trabalhastes; outros trabalharam, e vós entrastes no seu trabalho.
39 E muitos dos samaritanos daquela cidade creram nele, pela palavra da mulher, que testificou: Disse-me tudo quanto tenho feito. 40 Indo, pois, ter com ele os samaritanos, rogaram-lhe que ficasse com eles; e ficou ali dois dias. 41 E muitos mais creram nele, por causa da sua palavra. 42 E diziam à mulher: Já não é pelo que disseste que nós cremos, porque nós mesmos o temos ouvido e sabemos que este é verdadeiramente o Cristo, o Salvador do mundo.
A cura do filho de um oficial do rei
43 E, dois dias depois, partiu dali e foi para a Galileia. 44 Porque Jesus mesmo testificou que um profeta não tem honra na sua própria pátria. 45 Chegando, pois, à Galileia, os galileus o receberam, porque viram todas as coisas que fizera em Jerusalém no dia da festa; porque também eles tinham ido à festa.
46 Segunda vez foi Jesus a Caná da Galileia, onde da água fizera vinho. E havia ali um oficial do rei, cujo filho estava enfermo em Cafarnaum. 47 Ouvindo este que Jesus vinha da Judeia para a Galileia, foi ter com ele e rogou-lhe que descesse e curasse o seu filho, porque já estava à morte. 48 Então, Jesus lhe disse: Se não virdes sinais e milagres, não crereis. 49 Disse-lhe o oficial: Senhor, desce, antes que meu filho morra. 50 Disse-lhe Jesus: Vai, o teu filho vive. E o homem creu na palavra que Jesus lhe disse e foi-se. 51 E, descendo ele logo, saíram-lhe ao encontro os seus servos e lhe anunciaram, dizendo: O teu filho vive. 52 Perguntou-lhes, pois, a que hora se achara melhor; e disseram-lhe: Ontem, às sete horas, a febre o deixou. 53 Entendeu, pois, o pai que era aquela hora a mesma em que Jesus lhe disse: O teu filho vive; e creu ele, e toda a sua casa. 54 Jesus fez este segundo milagre quando ia da Judeia para a Galileia.
John 4
Common English Bible
Jesus leaves Judea
4 Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (2 although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). 3 Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
Jesus in Samaria
4 Jesus had to go through Samaria. 5 He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his journey, so he sat down at the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the city to buy him some food.
9 The Samaritan woman asked, “Why do you, a Jewish man, ask for something to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (Jews and Samaritans didn’t associate with each other.)
10 Jesus responded, “If you recognized God’s gift and who is saying to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would be asking him and he would give you living water.”
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket and the well is deep. Where would you get this living water? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave this well to us, and he drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. The water that I give will become in those who drink it a spring of water that bubbles up into eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will never be thirsty and will never need to come here to draw water!”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, get your husband, and come back here.”
17 The woman replied, “I don’t have a husband.”
“You are right to say, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus answered. 18 “You’ve had five husbands, and the man you are with now isn’t your husband. You’ve spoken the truth.”
19 The woman said, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you and your people say that it is necessary to worship in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you and your people will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You and your people worship what you don’t know; we worship what we know because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the time is coming—and is here!—when true worshippers will worship in spirit and truth. The Father looks for those who worship him this way. 24 God is spirit, and it is necessary to worship God in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will teach everything to us.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I Am—the one who speaks with you.”[a]
27 Just then, Jesus’ disciples arrived and were shocked that he was talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 28 The woman put down her water jar and went into the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who has told me everything I’ve done! Could this man be the Christ?” 30 They left the city and were on their way to see Jesus.
31 In the meantime the disciples spoke to Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 The disciples asked each other, “Has someone brought him food?”
34 Jesus said to them, “I am fed by doing the will of the one who sent me and by completing his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four more months and then it’s time for harvest’? Look, I tell you: open your eyes and notice that the fields are already ripe for the harvest. 36 Those who harvest are receiving their pay and gathering fruit for eternal life so that those who sow and those who harvest can celebrate together. 37 This is a true saying, that one sows and another harvests. 38 I have sent you to harvest what you didn’t work hard for; others worked hard, and you will share in their hard work.”
39 Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman’s word when she testified, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of his word, 42 and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this one is truly the savior of the world.”
Jesus arrives in Galilee
43 After two days Jesus left for Galilee. (44 Jesus himself had testified that prophets have no honor in their own country.) 45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem during the festival, for they also had been at the festival.
Jesus’ second miraculous sign in Galilee
46 He returned to Cana in Galilee where he had turned the water into wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus was coming from Judea to Galilee, he went out to meet him and asked Jesus if he would come and heal his son, for his son was about to die. 48 Jesus said to him, “Unless you see miraculous signs and wonders, you won’t believe.”
49 The royal official said to him, “Lord, come before my son dies.”
50 Jesus replied, “Go home. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and set out for his home.
51 While he was on his way, his servants were already coming to meet him. They said, “Your son lives!” 52 So he asked them at what time his son had started to get better. And they said, “The fever left him yesterday at about one o’clock in the afternoon.” 53 Then the father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did while going from Judea to Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:26 Or It is I, the one who speaks with you.
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