John 4
Contemporary English Version
4 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was. 2 But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
3 Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4 This time he had to go through Samaria, 5 (A) and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph. 6-8 The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from traveling. It was noon, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.
Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”
9 (B) “You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”[a]
10 Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water? 12 Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again. 14 But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give will become in that person a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”
15 The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go and bring your husband.”
17-18 The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.”
“That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”
19 The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20 My ancestors worshiped on this mountain,[b] but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her:
Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. 23 But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshipers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.
25 The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 “I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.”
27 The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
28 The woman left her water jar and ran back into town, where she said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?” 30 Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.
31 While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.”
32 But Jesus told them, “I have food you don't know anything about.”
33 His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesus said:
My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do. 35 You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.
36 Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. 37 So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.” 38 I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.
39 A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.” 40 They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.
41 Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say. 42 They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Savior of the world!”
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
(Matthew 8.5-13; Luke 7.1-10)
43-44 (C) Jesus had said, “Prophets are honored everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left 45 (D) and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.
46 (E) While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick. 47 And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.
48 Jesus told the official, “You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!”
49 The man replied, “Lord, please come before my son dies!”
50 Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and started back home.
51 Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, “Your son is better!” 52 He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”
53 The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.
54 This was the second miracle[c] that Jesus worked after he left Judea and went to Galilee.
Footnotes
- 4.9 won't have anything to do with each other: Or “won't use the same cups.” The Samaritans lived in the land between Judea and Galilee. They worshiped God differently from the Jews and did not get along with them.
- 4.20 this mountain: Mount Gerizim, near the city of Shechem.
- 4.54 miracle: See the note at 2.11.
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耶稣与撒马利亚妇人谈道
4 主知道法利赛人听见他收门徒施洗比约翰还多 2 （其实不是耶稣亲自施洗，乃是他的门徒施洗）， 3 他就离了犹太，又往加利利去。 4 必须经过撒马利亚， 5 于是到了撒马利亚的一座城，名叫叙加，靠近雅各给他儿子约瑟的那块地。 6 在那里有雅各井。耶稣因走路困乏，就坐在井旁。那时约有午正。 7 有一个撒马利亚的妇人来打水，耶稣对她说：“请你给我水喝。” 8 那时门徒进城买食物去了。 9 撒马利亚的妇人对他说：“你既是犹太人，怎么向我一个撒马利亚妇人要水喝呢？”（原来犹太人和撒马利亚人没有来往。） 10 耶稣回答说：“你若知道神的恩赐和对你说‘给我水喝’的是谁，你必早求他，他也必早给了你活水。” 11 妇人说：“先生，没有打水的器具，井又深，你从哪里得活水呢？ 12 我们的祖宗雅各将这井留给我们，他自己和儿子并牲畜也都喝这井里的水，难道你比他还大吗？”
喝主所赐之水永远不渴
13 耶稣回答说：“凡喝这水的，还要再渴， 14 人若喝我所赐的水，就永远不渴。我所赐的水要在他里头成为泉源，直涌到永生。” 15 妇人说：“先生，请把这水赐给我，叫我不渴，也不用来这么远打水。” 16 耶稣说：“你去叫你丈夫也到这里来。” 17 妇人说：“我没有丈夫。”耶稣说：“你说没有丈夫是不错的。 18 你已经有五个丈夫，你现在有的并不是你的丈夫。你这话是真的。” 19 妇人说：“先生，我看出你是先知。 20 我们的祖宗在这山上礼拜，你们倒说，应当礼拜的地方是在耶路撒冷。”
须用心灵诚实拜父
21 耶稣说：“妇人，你当信我。时候将到，你们拜父也不在这山上，也不在耶路撒冷。 22 你们所拜的你们不知道，我们所拜的我们知道，因为救恩是从犹太人出来的。 23 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。 24 神是个[a]灵，所以拜他的必须用心灵和诚实拜他。” 25 妇人说：“我知道弥赛亚，就是那称为基督的要来，他来了，必将一切的事都告诉我们。” 26 耶稣说：“这和你说话的就是他。”
27 当下门徒回来，就稀奇耶稣和一个妇人说话，只是没有人说“你是要什么？”，或说“你为什么和她说话？”。 28 那妇人就留下水罐子，往城里去，对众人说： 29 “你们来看！有一个人将我素来所行的一切事都给我说出来了，莫非这就是基督吗？” 30 众人就出城，往耶稣那里去。
耶稣以遵行父意为食物
31 这其间，门徒对耶稣说：“拉比，请吃。” 32 耶稣说：“我有食物吃，是你们不知道的。” 33 门徒就彼此对问说：“莫非有人拿什么给他吃吗？” 34 耶稣说：“我的食物就是遵行差我来者的旨意，做成他的工。 35 你们岂不说，到收割的时候还有四个月吗？我告诉你们：举目向田观看！庄稼已经熟了[b]，可以收割了。 36 收割的人得工价，积蓄五谷到永生，叫撒种的和收割的一同快乐。 37 俗语说：‘那人撒种，这人收割。’这话可见是真的。 38 我差你们去收你们所没有劳苦的，别人劳苦，你们享受他们所劳苦的。”
39 那城里有好些撒马利亚人信了耶稣，因为那妇人作见证说：“他将我素来所行的一切事都给我说出来了。” 40 于是撒马利亚人来见耶稣，求他在他们那里住下，他便在那里住了两天。 41 因耶稣的话，信的人就更多了， 42 便对妇人说：“现在我们信，不是因为你的话，是我们亲自听见了，知道这真是救世主。”
耶稣在本地无人尊敬
43 过了那两天，耶稣离了那地方，往加利利去。 44 因为耶稣自己作过见证说，先知在本地是没有人尊敬的。 45 到了加利利，加利利人既然看见他在耶路撒冷过节所行的一切事，就接待他，因为他们也是上去过节。
医大臣之子
46 耶稣又到了加利利的迦拿，就是他从前变水为酒的地方。有一个大臣，他的儿子在迦百农患病。 47 他听见耶稣从犹太到了加利利，就来见他，求他下去医治他的儿子，因为他儿子快要死了。 48 耶稣就对他说：“若不看见神迹奇事，你们总是不信！” 49 那大臣说：“先生，求你趁着我的孩子还没有死就下去。” 50 耶稣对他说：“回去吧，你的儿子活了！”那人信耶稣所说的话就回去了。 51 正下去的时候，他的仆人迎见他，说他的儿子活了。 52 他就问什么时候见好的，他们说：“昨日未时热就退了。” 53 他便知道这正是耶稣对他说“你儿子活了”的时候，他自己和全家就都信了。 54 这是耶稣在加利利行的第二件神迹，是他从犹太回去以后行的。
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