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En samaritansk kvinne møter Jesus

1-3 Fariseerne[a] fikk nå høre at Jesus vant flere disipler enn Johannes og døpte flere, skjønt det var ikke Jesus selv som døpte, men disiplene. Jesus dro derfor fra Judea og reiste tilbake til Galilea.

På veien dit ble han tvunget til å reise gjennom Samaria[b]. Etter en tid kom han til byen Sykar som ligger nær den jordteigen som Jakob ga sønnen sin Josef. Der ligger også Jakobs brønn. Etter som det var mitt på dagen og Jesus var trøtt av den lange reisen, satte han seg ved brønnen.

Da kom en samaritansk kvinne for å hente vann. Jesus ba henne: ”Gi meg litt å drikke.” Han var alene akkurat da, for disiplene hadde gått inn i byen for å kjøpe mat. Kvinnen ble svært forbauset, for jødene ville ikke ha noe med samaritanene å gjøre. Hun sa: ”Du som er jøde, hvorfor spør du en samaritansk kvinne om vann?”

10 Jesus svarte: ”Dersom du visste hvilken fantastisk gave Gud har i bakhånd for deg, og dersom du forsto hvem jeg er, da ville du i stedet ha spurt meg, og jeg ville ha gitt deg levende vann.”

11 ”Men, herre, du har jo verken tau eller bøtte”, sa hun, ”og brønnen er dyp. Hvor skal du få levende vann fra? 12 Du er vel ikke større enn vår stamfar Jakob som ga oss denne brønnen? Kan du gi meg bedre vann enn det som han, sønnene og husdyrene hans drakk av?”

13 Jesus svarte: ”Den som drikker av dette vannet, blir snart tørst igjen. 14 Men den som drikker av det vannet jeg gir, blir aldri tørst igjen, for mitt vann blir en uuttømmelig kilde i ham som sprudler fram og gir evig liv.”

15 ”Herre”, sa kvinnen. ”Gi meg av det vannet, slik at jeg aldri mer blir tørst og kan slippe å gå ut hit for å hente vann.”

16 Jesus sa: ”Gå og hent mannen din.”

17-18 ”Jeg har ingen mann”, svarte kvinnen.

”Du har rett”, sa Jesus. ”Du har levd sammen med fem menn, og den du nå lever med, er ikke din mann. Der holdt du deg til sannheten.”

19 ”Herre”, sa kvinnen. ”Du må være en profet, etter som du med Guds hjelp kan avsløre noe slikt. 20 Si meg hvorfor dere jøder påstår at Jerusalem er det eneste stedet der vi kan tilbe Gud, mens vi som er samaritaner, sier at vi skal tilbe på dette fjellet[c] der forfedrene våre alltid har tilbedt?”

21-24 Jesus forklarte: ”Tro meg, det kommer en dag da ingen lenger behøver å diskutere om det er på dette fjellet eller i Jerusalem vi skal tilbe vår Far i himmelen. Det er ikke spørsmålet om hvor vi tilber som er det viktigste, heller hvordan vi skal tilbe. Virkelig tilbedelse er ekte og inspirert av Guds Ånd. Det er slik Gud vil at vi skal tilbe ham, etter som Gud er Ånd. Og det kommer en dag, ja, den er allerede her, da menneskene skal tilbe Gud på denne måten. Men dere som er samaritaner, vet lite om ham som dere tilber. Vi jøder derimot kjenner ham godt, for frelsen kommer fra jødene.”

25 Kvinnen sa: ”Ja, jeg vet at Messias[d], den lovede kongen, en gang skal komme, og når han kommer, vil han forklare alt for oss.”

26 Jesus sa til henne: ”Det er jeg,[e] han som du snakker med.”

27 I samme øyeblikk kom disiplene tilbake. De ble mer enn overrasket da de så at han snakket med en kvinne, men ingen spurte ham hvorfor han snakket med henne eller hva de pratet om.

28 Kvinnen satte igjen sin vannbøtte ved brønnen og gikk tilbake til byen og sa til alle: 29 ”Kom så får dere treffe en mann som var i stand til å si meg alt det jeg har gjort! Jeg undrer meg på om han ikke må være Messias, den lovede kongen.” 30 Folket strømmet ut fra byen for å treffe Jesus.

31 Imens ville disiplene gi Jesus noe å spise. 32 Men han sa: ”Jeg har mat som dere ikke kjenner til.”

33 Disiplene sa da til hverandre: ”Kan noen ha kommet hit og gitt ham mat?”

34 Da forklarte Jesus: ”Min mat er å gjøre hans vilje som har sendt meg og å fullføre det oppdraget han har gitt meg. 35 Dere sier at kornet ikke er modent før om fire måneder. Men jeg sier: Se dere omkring. Åkrene har allerede lysnet i fargen og er modne for skuronnen. 36 De høstfolkene som fører mennesker til evig liv skal få god lønn. Tenk hvilken glede som venter både den som sår og den som høster! 37 For her gjelder ordspråket: En sår og en annen høster. 38 Jeg har sendt dere ut for å høste der dere ikke har sådd. Andre har utført arbeidet, og dere skal få lønn for strevet dere har hatt.”

Mange samaritaner kommer til tro

39 Mange samaritaner fra byen Sykar hadde blitt overbeviste om at Jesus var sendt av Gud da de hørte kvinnen si: ”Han var i stand til å si meg alt det jeg har gjort.” 40 Da de kom ut til ham, ba de om at han måtte stanse i byen, og han ble der i to dager. 41 Da de fikk høre ordene fra hans egen munn, var det enda flere som begynte å tro på ham. 42 De sa til kvinnen: ”Nå er det ikke lenger det du fortalte oss som får oss til å tro. Nei, nå har vi selv hørt ham og forstått at han virkelig er den som skal frelse menneskene.”

Jesus helbreder sønnen til en kongelig tjenestemann

43 Etter to dager fortsatte Jesus til Galilea. 44 Han hadde selv sagt at en profet som bringer Guds budskap blir respektert over alt, bortsett fra på sitt eget hjemsted. 45 Nå tok galileerne imot ham med åpne armer, etter som de hadde vært i Jerusalem under påskehøytiden[f] og sett alle miraklene hans.

46 Mens han reiste rundt i Galilea, kom han også tilbake til byen Kana, der han en gang hadde forandret vann til vin. En mann i den kongelige[g] tjenesten hadde på denne tiden en sønn som lå alvorlig syk i byen Kapernaum. 47 Da mannen fikk høre at Jesus hadde kommet fra Judea og var i Galilea, gikk han til Kana for å treffe Jesus. Han ba ham om å følge med til Kapernaum for å helbrede gutten hans som lå døende.

48 Jesus spurte: ”Kan dere virkelig ikke tro på meg dersom dere ikke til stadighet får se mirakler?”

49 Men mannen ba: ”Herre, kom før gutten min dør.”

50 Da sa Jesus til han: ”Gå hjem igjen. Sønnen din lever.” Og mannen trodde på det Jesus sa og gikk hjem. 51 Mens han fortsatt var på veien ble han møtt av tjenerne sine som meldte at gutten levde og var frisk. 52 Han spurte ved hvilken tid på dagen gutten hadde begynt bli bedre, og de svarte: ”I går ettermiddag rundt klokka ett forsvant plutselig feberen.” 53 Da forsto faren at det hadde skjedd i samme øyeblikk som Jesus hadde sagt til ham: ”Din sønn lever.” Og tjenestemannen og alle i huset hans begynte å tro på Jesus.

54 Dette var det andre miraklet Jesus gjorde, og han gjorde det mens han var på vei fra Judea til Galilea.

Footnotes

  1. 4:1-3 Fariseerne var et religiøst parti blant jødene.
  2. 4:4 Samaria lå mellom Galilea og Judea. Innbyggerne var jøder som var oppblandet med andre folk. Det rådde fiendskap mellom dem og jødene.
  3. 4:20 Samaritanene hadde et eget tempel på fjellet Garisim.
  4. 4:25 Grunnteksten legger til: Messias betyr Kristus. Begge ordene betyr ”den salvede”, det vil si den som ble innviet til konge.
  5. 4:26 Jesus bruker samme ordet om seg selv som Gud gjorde i Andre Mosebok 3:14. Han er den evige ”Jeg er”.
  6. 4:45 ”Påske” kommer fra hebraisk ”pésach” eller ”pasách” som betyr ”gå forbi” eller ”skåne”. Jødene sin påske feires til minne om hvordan Gud reddet de ut av slaveriet i Egypt. Se Andre Mosebok 12:1-27.
  7. 4:46 Mannen arbeidet for kong Herodes, som styrte over Galilea og Perea og var sønn til den Herodes som regjerte da Jesus ble født.

A Samaritan Woman Meets Jesus at a Well

Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John. (Actually, Jesus was not baptizing people. His disciples were.) So he left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.

Jesus had to go through Samaria. He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus sat down by the well because he was tired from traveling. The time was about noon.

A Samaritan woman went to get some water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” (His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.)

The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can a Jewish man like you ask a Samaritan woman like me for a drink of water?” (Jews, of course, don’t associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus replied to her, “If you only knew what God’s gift is and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink. He would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you don’t have anything to use to get water, and the well is deep. So where are you going to get this living water? 12 You’re not more important than our ancestor Jacob, are you? He gave us this well. He and his sons and his animals drank water from it.”

13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water that I will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give them will become in them a spring that gushes up to eternal life.”

15 The woman told Jesus, “Sir, give me this water! Then I won’t get thirsty or have to come here to get water.”

16 Jesus told her, “Go to your husband, and bring him here.”

17 The woman replied, “I don’t have a husband.”

Jesus told her, “You’re right when you say that you don’t have a husband. 18 You’ve had five husbands, and the man you have now isn’t your husband. You’ve told the truth.”

19 The woman said to Jesus, “I see that you’re a prophet! 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that people must worship in Jerusalem.”

21 Jesus told her, “Believe me. A time is coming when you Samaritans won’t be worshiping the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You don’t know what you’re worshiping. We ⌞Jews⌟ know what we’re worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. 23 Indeed, the time is coming, and it is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for people like that to worship him. 24 God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us everything.” (Messiah is the one called Christ.)

26 Jesus told her, “I am he, and I am speaking to you now.”

27 At that time his disciples returned. They were surprised that he was talking to a woman. But none of them asked him, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”

28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people, 29 “Come with me, and meet a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” 30 The people left the city and went to meet Jesus.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, have something to eat.”

32 Jesus told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33 The disciples asked each other, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”

34 Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.

35 “Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested. 36 The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together. 37 In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’ 38 I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.”

39 Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days. 41 Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said. 42 They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.”

A Believing Official(A)

43 After spending two days in Samaria, Jesus left for Galilee. 44 Jesus had said that a prophet is not honored in his own country. 45 But when Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people of Galilee welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done at the festival in Jerusalem, since they, too, had attended the festival.

46 Jesus returned to the city of Cana in Galilee, where he had changed water into wine. A government official was in Cana. His son was sick in Capernaum. 47 The official heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee. So he went to Jesus and asked him to go to Capernaum with him to heal his son who was about to die.

48 Jesus told the official, “If people don’t see miracles and amazing things, they won’t believe.”

49 The official said to him, “Sir, come with me before my little boy dies.”

50 Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and left.

51 While the official was on his way to Capernaum, his servants met him and told him that his boy was alive. 52 The official asked them at what time his son got better. His servants told him, “The fever left him yesterday evening at seven o’clock.” 53 Then the boy’s father realized that it was the same time that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So the official and his entire family became believers.

54 This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he had come back from Judea to Galilee.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(A) although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea(B) and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.(C) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(D) Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(E) (His disciples had gone into the town(F) to buy food.)

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

  1. John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used