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
Johannes 4
Luther Bibel 1545
4 Da nun der HERR inneward, daß vor die Pharisäer gekommen war, wie Jesus mehr Jünger machte und taufte denn Johannes
2 (wiewohl Jesus selber nicht taufte, sondern seine Jünger),
3 verließ er das Land Judäa und zog wieder nach Galiläa.
4 Er mußte aber durch Samaria reisen.
5 Da kam er in eine Stadt Samarias, die heißt Sichar, nahe bei dem Feld, das Jakob seinem Sohn Joseph gab.
6 Es war aber daselbst Jakobs Brunnen. Da nun Jesus müde war von der Reise, setzte er sich also auf den Brunnen; und es war um die sechste Stunde.
7 Da kommt ein Weib aus Samaria, Wasser zu schöpfen. Jesus spricht zu ihr: Gib mir zu trinken!
8 (Denn seine Jünger waren in die Stadt gegangen, daß sie Speise kauften.)
9 Spricht nun das samaritische Weib zu ihm: Wie bittest du von mir zu trinken, so du ein Jude bist, und ich ein samaritisch Weib? (Denn die Juden haben keine Gemeinschaft mit den Samaritern.)
10 Jesus antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Wenn du erkenntest die Gabe Gottes und wer der ist, der zu dir sagt: "Gib mir zu trinken!", du bätest ihn, und er gäbe dir lebendiges Wasser.
11 Spricht zu ihm das Weib: HERR, hast du doch nichts, womit du schöpfest, und der Brunnen ist tief; woher hast du denn lebendiges Wasser?
12 Bist du mehr denn unser Vater Jakob, der uns diesen Brunnen gegeben hat? Und er hat daraus getrunken und seine Kinder und sein Vieh.
13 Jesus antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Wer von diesem Wasser trinkt, den wir wieder dürsten;
14 wer aber von dem Wasser trinken wird, das ich ihm gebe, den wird ewiglich nicht dürsten; sondern das Wasser, das ich ihm geben werde, das wird in ihm ein Brunnen des Wassers werden, das in das ewige Leben quillt.
15 Spricht das Weib zu ihm: HERR, gib mir dieses Wasser, auf daß mich nicht dürste und ich nicht herkommen müsse, zu schöpfen!
16 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Gehe hin, rufe deinen Mann und komm her!
17 Das Weib antwortete und sprach zu ihm: Ich habe keinen Mann. Jesus spricht zu ihr: Du hast recht gesagt: Ich habe keinen Mann.
18 Fünf Männer hast du gehabt, und den du nun hast, der ist nicht dein Mann; da hast du recht gesagt.
19 Das Weib spricht zu ihm: HERR, ich sehe, daß du ein Prophet bist.
20 Unsere Väter haben auf diesem Berge angebetet, und ihr sagt, zu Jerusalem sei die Stätte, da man anbeten solle.
21 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Weib, glaube mir, es kommt die Zeit, daß ihr weder auf diesem Berge noch zu Jerusalem werdet den Vater anbeten.
22 Ihr wisset nicht, was ihr anbetet; wir wissen aber, was wir anbeten, denn das Heil kommt von den Juden.
23 Aber es kommt die Zeit und ist schon jetzt, daß die wahrhaftigen Anbeter werden den Vater anbeten im Geist und in der Wahrheit; denn der Vater will haben, die ihn also anbeten.
24 Gott ist Geist, und die ihn anbeten, die müssen ihn im Geist und in der Wahrheit anbeten.
25 Spricht das Weib zu ihm: Ich weiß, daß der Messias kommt, der da Christus heißt. Wenn derselbe kommen wird, so wird er's uns alles verkündigen.
26 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Ich bin's, der mit dir redet.
27 Und über dem kamen seine Jünger, und es nahm sie wunder, daß er mit dem Weib redete. Doch sprach niemand: Was fragst du? oder: Was redest du mit ihr?
28 Da ließ das Weib ihren Krug stehen und ging hin in die Stadt und spricht zu den Leuten:
29 Kommt, seht einen Menschen, der mir gesagt hat alles, was ich getan habe, ob er nicht Christus sei!
30 Da gingen sie aus der Stadt und kamen zu ihm.
31 Indes aber ermahnten ihn die Jünger und sprachen: Rabbi, iß!
32 Er aber sprach zu ihnen: Ich habe eine Speise zu essen, von der ihr nicht wisset.
33 Da sprachen die Jünger untereinander: Hat ihm jemand zu essen gebracht?
34 Jesus spricht zu ihnen: Meine Speise ist die, daß ich tue den Willen des, der mich gesandt hat, und vollende sein Werk.
35 Saget ihr nicht: Es sind noch vier Monate, so kommt die Ernte? Siehe, ich sage euch: Hebet eure Augen auf und sehet in das Feld; denn es ist schon weiß zur Ernte.
36 Und wer da schneidet, der empfängt Lohn und sammelt Frucht zum ewigen Leben, auf daß sich miteinander freuen, der da sät und der da schneidet.
37 Denn hier ist der Spruch wahr: Dieser sät, der andere schneidet.
38 Ich habe euch gesandt, zu schneiden, was ihr nicht gearbeitet habt; andere haben gearbeitet und ihr seid in ihre Arbeit gekommen.
39 Es glaubten aber an ihn viele der Samariter aus der Stadt um des Weibes Rede willen, welches da zeugte: Er hat mir gesagt alles, was ich getan habe.
40 Als nun die Samariter zu ihm kamen, baten sie ihn, daß er bei ihnen bliebe; und er blieb zwei Tage da.
41 Und viel mehr glaubten um seines Wortes willen
42 und sprachen zum Weibe: Wir glauben nun hinfort nicht um deiner Rede willen; wir haben selber gehört und erkannt, daß dieser ist wahrlich Christus, der Welt Heiland.
43 Aber nach zwei Tagen zog er aus von dannen und zog nach Galiläa.
44 Denn er selber, Jesus, zeugte, daß ein Prophet daheim nichts gilt.
45 Da er nun nach Galiläa kam, nahmen ihn die Galiläer auf, die gesehen hatten alles, was er zu Jerusalem auf dem Fest getan hatte; denn sie waren auch zum Fest gekommen.
46 Und Jesus kam abermals gen Kana in Galiläa, da er das Wasser hatte zu Wein gemacht.
47 Und es war ein Königischer, des Sohn lag krank zu Kapernaum. Dieser hörte, daß Jesus kam aus Judäa nach Galiläa, und ging hin zu ihm und bat ihn, daß er hinabkäme und hülfe seinem Sohn; denn er war todkrank.
48 Und Jesus sprach zu ihm: Wenn ihr nicht Zeichen und Wunder seht, so glaubet ihr nicht.
49 Der Königische sprach zu ihm: HERR, komm hinab, ehe denn mein Kind stirbt!
50 Jesus spricht zu ihm: Gehe hin, dein Sohn lebt! der Mensch glaubte dem Wort, das Jesus zu ihm sagte, und ging hin.
51 Und indem er hinabging, begegneten ihm seine Knechte, verkündigten ihm und sprachen: Dein Kind lebt.
52 Da forschte er von ihnen die Stunde, in welcher es besser mit ihm geworden war. Und sie sprachen zu ihm: Gestern um die siebente Stunde verließ ihn das Fieber.
53 Da merkte der Vater, daß es um die Stunde wäre, in welcher Jesus zu ihm gesagt hatte: Dein Sohn lebt. Und er glaubte mit seinem ganzen Hause.
54 Das ist nun das andere Zeichen, das Jesus tat, da er aus Judäa nach Galiläa kam.
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
John 4
King James Version
4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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