John 4
Christian Standard Bible
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 When Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees(A) had heard he was making(B) and baptizing more disciples than John(C) 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, 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 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 worshiped 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 worshipers 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 labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from[j] their labor.”
The Savior 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 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 Savior(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 honor 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) realized 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
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
Jesus och den samariska kvinnan
4 Jesus insåg att fariseerna hade fått höra att han hade fler lärjungar än Johannes och döpte fler – 2 fast det var inte Jesus själv som döpte utan hans lärjungar. 3 Jesus lämnade därför Judeen och återvände till Galileen.
4 På vägen dit var han tvungen att gå genom Samarien[a] 5 och så kom han till en stad i Samarien som heter Sykar och som ligger nära den mark som Jakob gav sin son Josef. 6 Där ligger också Jakobs brunn och eftersom det var mitt på dagen och Jesus var trött av vandringen, satte han sig vid brunnen.
7 Då kom en samarisk kvinna för att hämta vatten och Jesus bad henne: ”Ge mig lite att dricka!” 8 Hans lärjungar hade gått in till staden för att köpa mat. 9 Den samariska kvinnan sa: ”Du som är jude, hur kan du be mig, en samarisk kvinna, om vatten?” Judarna brukade nämligen inte ha något gemensamt med samarierna.
10 Jesus svarade: ”Om du kände till Guds gåva och vem det är som ber dig om något att dricka, så skulle du ha bett honom och han skulle ha gett dig levande vatten.”
11 ”Men, Herre, du har ju varken rep eller kruka”, sa hon, ”och brunnen är djup. Varifrån ska du få levande vatten? 12 Du är väl inte större än vår förfader Jakob som gav oss den här brunnen och som han själv och hans söner och boskap drack av?”
13 Jesus svarade: ”Den som dricker av det här vattnet blir snart törstig igen. 14 Men den som dricker av det vatten jag ger blir aldrig i evighet törstig igen för mitt vatten blir en källa inom honom som porlar fram och ger evigt liv.”
15 ”Herre”, sa kvinnan, ”ge mig av det vattnet, så att jag aldrig mer blir törstig och slipper gå ut hit och hämta vatten!”
16 Men Jesus sa: ”Gå och hämta din man!”
17 ”Jag har ingen man”, svarade kvinnan.
”Du har rätt när du säger att du inte har någon man”, sa Jesus. 18 ”Du har haft fem män och den du har nu är inte din man. Där höll du dig till sanningen.”
19 ”Herre”, sa kvinnan, ”jag ser att du är en profet. 20 Våra förfäder har tillbett på det här berget[b], men ni säger att den plats där man ska tillbe finns i Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus sa till henne: ”Tro mig, kvinna det kommer en tid då det varken är på det här berget eller i Jerusalem som ni ska tillbe Fadern. 22 Ni tillber vad ni inte känner. Vi tillber vad vi känner eftersom räddningen kommer från judarna. 23 Men den tid kommer, ja, den har redan kommit, då sanna tillbedjare tillber Fadern i ande och sanning, för det är sådana tillbedjare Fadern söker. 24 Gud är Ande och de som tillber honom måste tillbe i ande och sanning.”
25 Kvinnan sa: ”Ja, jag vet att Messias ska komma, han som kallas Kristus, och när han kommer ska han förklara allt för oss.”
26 Då sa Jesus till henne: ”Det är jag, den som talar till dig.”
27 Just då kom hans lärjungar tillbaka. De blev mycket förvånade över att han talade med en kvinna, men ingen av dem frågade honom varför han talade med henne eller vad de talade om.
28 Men kvinnan lämnade sin vattenkruka vid brunnen och gick tillbaka till staden och sa till alla: 29 ”Kom så får ni träffa en man som kunde säga mig allt vad jag har gjort! Kan han vara Messias?” 30 Och folket strömmade ut från staden för att träffa Jesus.
31 Under tiden ville lärjungarna ge sin Mästare något att äta 32 men han sa: ”Jag har mat som ni inte känner till.”
33 Hans lärjungar sa då till varandra: ”Kan någon ha kommit hit och gett honom mat?”
34 Då sa Jesus: ”Min mat är att göra hans vilja som har sänt mig och att slutföra det uppdrag han har gett mig. 35 Ni säger att om fyra månader är det dags att skörda. Men jag säger: Se er omkring! Fälten har redan ljusnat och är mogna för skörd. 36 Redan nu får skördearbetaren sin lön. Han skördar frukt till evigt liv så att både den som sår och den som skördar får glädjas tillsammans. 37 För här gäller ordspråket: en sår och en annan skördar. 38 Jag har sänt ut er för att skörda där ni inte har arbetat. Andra har utfört arbetet och ni ska få lön för deras möda.”
Många samarier kommer till tro
39 Många samarier från den staden kom till tro på honom när de hörde kvinnan vittna: ”Han kunde säga mig allt vad jag har gjort.” 40 Så när samarierna kom ut till honom bad de honom att stanna hos dem och han stannade där i två dagar. 41 När de då fick höra honom själv tala, var det ännu fler som började tro på honom 42 och de sa till kvinnan: ”Nu är det inte längre det som du berättade för oss som får oss att tro. Nej, nu har vi själva hört honom och förstått att han verkligen är den som ska rädda världen.”
Jesus botar en kunglig tjänstemans son
43 Efter de två dagarna fortsatte Jesus till Galileen. 44 Han hade själv vittnat om att en profet inte blir respekterad i sin egen hemstad. 45 Men när han nu kom till Galileen, tog galileerna emot honom med öppna armar eftersom de hade varit i Jerusalem under påskhögtiden och sett vad han gjort där.
46 I Galileen kom han också tillbaka till Kana där han en gång hade förvandlat vatten till vin. En man i kunglig[c] tjänst hade en son som låg sjuk i Kafarnaum. 47 När mannen därför fick höra att Jesus hade kommit från Judeen och var i Galileen, gick han till honom och bad honom att följa med till Kafarnaum för att bota hans son som låg döende.
48 Jesus sa: ”Ni tror inte, om ni inte får se tecken och under!”
49 Mannen bad: ”Herre, kom innan mitt barn dör!”
50 Då sa Jesus till honom: ”Gå hem igen! Din son lever.” Mannen trodde på vad Jesus sa och gick. 51 Medan han fortfarande var på väg, möttes han av sina tjänare som meddelade att pojken levde. 52 Han frågade dem då vid vilken tid på dagen pojken hade börjat bli bättre och de svarade: ”Igår eftermiddag vid ettiden försvann febern.” 53 Då förstod fadern att det hade hänt i samma stund som Jesus hade sagt till honom: ”Din son lever.” Och tjänstemannen och alla i hans hus började tro på Jesus.
54 Detta var det andra tecknet Jesus gjorde och han gjorde det när han hade kommit från Judeen till Galileen.
Footnotes
- 4:4 Samarien låg mellan Galileen och Judeen. Invånarna var judar som uppblandats med andra folk. Det rådde fiendskap mellan dem och judarna.
- 4:20 Samarierna hade ett eget tempel på berget Gerissim.
- 4:46 Mannen arbetade för kung Herodes, som styrde över Galileen och Pereen och var son till den Herodes som regerade då Jesus föddes.
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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