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John 4
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John 4
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4 1-2 When the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard about the greater crowds coming to him than to John to be baptized and to become his disciples—(though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them, but his disciples did)— 3 he left Judea and returned to the province of Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the way, 5-6 and around noon as he approached the village of Sychar, he came to Jacob’s Well, located on the parcel of ground Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jesus was tired from the long walk in the hot sun and sat wearily beside the well.
7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus asked her for a drink. 8 He was alone at the time as his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. 9 The woman was surprised that a Jew would ask a “despised Samaritan” for anything—usually they wouldn’t even speak to them!—and she remarked about this to Jesus.
10 He replied,
11 “But you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this is a very deep well! Where would you get this living water? 12 And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? How can you offer better water than this which he and his sons and cattle enjoyed?”
13 Jesus replied that people soon became thirsty again after drinking this water. 14 “But the water I give them,” he said, “becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life.”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me some of that water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again and won’t have to make this long trip out here every day.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
17-18 “But I’m not married,” the woman replied.
“All too true!” Jesus said. “For you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. 20 But say, tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim,[a] where our ancestors worshiped?”
21-24 Jesus replied,
25 The woman said, “Well, at least I know that the Messiah will come—the one they call Christ—and when he does, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!”
27 Just then his disciples arrived. They were surprised to find him talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why, or what they had been discussing.
28-29 Then the woman left her waterpot beside the well and went back to the village and told everyone, “Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Can this be the Messiah?” 30 So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to eat. 32 “No,” he said, “I have some food you don’t know about.”
33 “Who brought it to him?” the disciples asked each other.
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me, and from finishing his work. 35 Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields of human souls are ripening all around us, and are ready now for reaping. 36 The reapers will be paid good wages and will be gathering eternal souls into the granaries of heaven! What joys await the sower and the reaper, both together! 37 For it is true that one sows and someone else reaps. 38 I sent you to reap where you didn’t sow; others did the work, and you received the harvest.”
39 Many from the Samaritan village believed he was the Messiah because of the woman’s report: “He told me everything I ever did!” 40-41 When they came out to see him at the well, they begged him to stay at their village; and he did, for two days, long enough for many of them to believe in him after hearing him. 42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world.”
43-44 At the end of the two days’ stay he went on into Galilee. Jesus used to say, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country!” 45 But the Galileans welcomed him with open arms, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen some of his miracles.[b]
46-47 In the course of his journey through Galilee he arrived at the town of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. While he was there, a man in the city of Capernaum, a government official, whose son was very sick, heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was traveling in Galilee. This man went over to Cana, found Jesus, and begged him to come to Capernaum with him and heal his son, who was now at death’s door.
48 Jesus asked, “Won’t any of you believe in me unless I do more and more miracles?”
49 The official pled, “Sir, please come now before my child dies.”
50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son is healed!” And the man believed Jesus and started home. 51 While he was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that all was well—his son had recovered. 52 He asked them when the lad had begun to feel better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at about one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!” 53 Then the father realized it was the same moment that Jesus had told him, “Your son is healed.” And the officer and his entire household believed that Jesus was the Messiah.
54 This was Jesus’ second miracle in Galilee after coming from Judea.
John 4
King James Version
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.
Jan 4
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jan 4
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Jezi ak fanm samaritèn nan
4 Jezi te aprann Farizyen yo tande l ap fè plis disip epi l ap batize plis moun pase Janbatis. 2 Men, alaverite, se pa t Jezi ki t ap batize moun yo, se te disip li yo. 3 Li kite teritwa Jide, li tounen Galile. 4 Pou rive Galile, li te dwe travèse teritwa Samari.
5 Li rive nan yon vil nan teritwa Samari yo rele Sika ki te toupre pòsyon tè Jakòb te bay Jozèf, pitit gason l lan. 6 Se la pi Jakòb te fè fouye a te ye. Jezi te fatige poutèt wout long sa a li sot fè a, li fè yon ti chita bò kote pi a. Li te bò midi konsa. 7 Yon fanm samaritèn te vin chache dlo nan pi a, epi Jezi di l konsa: “Ban m ti gout dlo.” 8 Sa te pase pandan disip Jezi yo te antre nan vil la pou achte kèk bagay pou yo manje.
9 Fanm nan reponn: “Ou konnen ou fè m sezi lè ou mande m dlo pou w bwè! Ou se yon Jwif epi mwen se yon fanm samaritèn! Jwif pa gen okenn relasyon ak Samariten.”
10 Jezi reponn li: “Se konnen ou pa konnen sa Bondye kapab ba ou. Epi ou pa konnen ki moun mwen ye, mwen menm k ap mande w dlo a. Si ou te konnen, se ou ki t ap mande m, epi mwen ta ba ou dlo ki bay lavi a.”[a]
11 Fanm nan di li: “Mesye, pi a fon anpil epi ou pa gen veso pou tire dlo a. Kote ou ap jwenn kalite dlo sa a? 12 Èske ou pi gran pase Jakòb, gran paran nou? Se li ki te fouye pi sa a pou nou. Li te bwè ladan l, pitit li yo ansanm ak bèt li yo te bwè ladan l.”
13 Jezi reponn li: “Nenpòt moun ki bwè nan dlo sa a ap swaf ankò. 14 Men nenpòt moun ki bwè dlo mwen bay la p ap janm swaf ankò. Dlo m ap bay la va tounen yon sous dlo anndan yo. Li va ba yo lavi etènèl.”
15 Fanm nan di Jezi: “Mesye, ban m dlo sa a non. Mwen pa ta swaf ankò epi mwen pa t ap oblije retounen isit la pou chache dlo.”
16 Jezi di li: “Ale chache mari w mennen vini.”
17 Fanm nan reponn: “Men, mwen pa gen mari.”
Jezi di: “Ou gen rezon di ou pa gen mari. 18 Ou pase senk mari deja, epi mesye ou avè l kounye a pa mari w. Lè w di ou pa gen mari a, se verite a.”
19 Fanm nan di: “Mesye, mwen wè ou se yon pwofèt. 20 Gran paran nou yo te konn adore Bondye sou mòn sa a, men nou menm Jwif, nou di fòk se Jerizalèm pou moun adore Bondye.”
21 Jezi reponn li: “kwè m si ou vle, madanm! Lè a rive, kote se pa ni anwo mòn sa a ni Jerizalèm moun pral adore Bondye Papa a. 22 Nou menm Samariten yo, nou adore sa nou pa konnen. Nou menm Jwif, nou adore sa nou konnen, paske delivrans la soti pami Jwif yo. 23 Men, gen yon jou k ap vini, epi jou a rive deja, vrè adoratè Bondye yo pral adore Bondye Papa a anba kontwòl Sentespri a epi selon verite a. Se kalite adoratè sa yo menm Bondye Papa a ap chache pou adore l. 24 Bondye se Lespri. Konsa, moun k ap adore Li dwe adore li anba kontwòl Sentespri epi selon verite a.”
25 Fanm samaritèn nan di li: “Mwen konnen Mesi a, moun yo rele Kris la, li gen pou vini. Lè l vini, li va fè n konnen tout bagay.”
26 Alò, Jezi di l: “Mwen menm menm k ap pale avè w la, se mwen menm ki Mesi a.”
27 Menm lè a, disip yo vin rive. Yo te sezi wè Jezi t ap pale ak yon fanm. Men, pèsonn pa t oze mande li: “Ki sa ou ap chache?” ni “Pou kisa ou ap pale avè l?”
28 Alò, fanm nan kite veso li te pote pou pran dlo a, li retounen nan vil la. Li t ap mache di moun yo: 29 “Men yon nonm ki di mwen tout bagay mwen fè. Vin wè, èske se pa ta li menm ki Mesi a?” 30 Se konsa, pèp la soti lavil la epi y al wè Jezi.
31 Pandan fanm nan te nan vil la, disip Jezi yo t ap ankouraje Jezi konsa: “Mèt, manje yon bagay non!”
32 Men Jezi reponn: “Mwen gen yon manje pou m manje nou pa konnen.”
33 Disip yo t ap mande antre yo: “Èske gen yon moun ki ta gentan pote manje ba li?”
34 Jezi di: “Manje m se fè volonte moun ki voye m nan, manje m se fini travay li te ban m fè a. 35 Lè nou fè jaden, nou toujou di nan kat mwa ankò n ap gen rekòt. Men m ap di nou, leve je nou gade jaden yo. Yo gentan bon pou rekòt la. 36 Moun k ap ranmase rekòt la ap touche salè yo. Y ap rasanble fwi pou lavi etènèl. Konsa moun k ap plante a ak moun k ap ranmase rekòt la kapab rejwi ansanm. 37 Nan ka sa a, sa yo di a se vre: Youn plante, yon lòt rekòl te. 38 Mwen voye n al ranmase rekòt kote nou pa t plante. Gen lòt moun ki te plante, epi se nou menm k ap pwofite travay yo.”
39 Anpil Samariten nan vil la te kwè nan Jezi. Yo te kwè poutèt sa fanm nan te di yo sou Jezi a. Li te di yo: “Li di mwen tout sa m fè.” 40 Samariten yo ale kote Jezi. Yo mande Li rete ak yo. Konsa, Jezi te pase de jou ak yo. 41 Anpil lòt moun te kwè nan Li poutèt sa Li t ap di.
42 Moun yo di fanm nan: “Anvan, nou te kwè poutèt sa ou te di nou. Men kounye a, nou kwè paske nou tande Li ak pwòp zòrèy nou. Kounye a, nou konnen se li menm ki gen pou sove lemonn.”
Jezi geri pitit gason yon Ofisye
(Mat 8:5-13; Lik 7:1-10)
43 Apre de jou, Jezi kite zòn nan, l al nan teritwa Galile. 44 Jezi te di yon pwofèt pa gen okenn respè nan peyi li. 45 Lè l rive Galile, moun yo te byen resevwa li, paske yo te ale nan fèt Pak la, Jerizalèm, epi yo te wè tout sa Li t ap fè nan fèt la.
46 Jezi te ale Kana nan Galile ankò. Kana se kote li te fè dlo tounen diven an. Youn nan gwo ofisye gouvènman wa Ewòd yo te rete lavil Kapènawòm. Pitit gason nonm sa a te malad. 47 Nonm nan te tande Jezi soti nan teritwa Jide pou vin Galile. Konsa, li ale kote Jezi epi li mande l si l ka vini Kapènawòm pou geri pitit li a ki te prèske mouri. 48 Alò, Jezi di li: “Nou menm, tout tan nou pa wè gwo mirak ak mèvèy nou p ap janm kwè.”
49 Ofisye wa a di: “Mèt, vini vit non, anvan pitit gason m nan mouri.”
50 Jezi reponn li: “Ou mèt ale, pitit ou a geri.”
Nonm nan te kwè sa Jezi te di l la, li retounen lakay li. 51 Etan l te sou wout ap retounen lakay li, sèvitè l yo vin rankontre l. Yo di li: “Pitit ou a geri.”
52 Ofisye a mande: “Bò ki lè kon sa li te kòmanse fè mye?”
Yo reponn li: “Ayè, a inè apremidi, lafyèv la te tonbe.”
53 Papa pitit la te konnen se te nan menm lè sa a Jezi te di l: “Pitit ou a geri.” Se kon sa li menm ak tout moun lakay li te kwè nan Jezi.
54 Se te dezyèm mirak Jezi te fè apre li te fin soti Jide rive Galile.
Footnotes
- 4:10 dlo ki bay lavi a Pawòl Jezi te di fanm nan kapab vle di de bagay: 1) dlo fre osinon 2) dlo ki bay lavi. Jezi te vle di “dlo ki bay lavi”. Men dam nan te konprann “dlo fre”.
John 4
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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
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