John 4
Lexham English Bible
The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well
4 Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.
5 Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 And Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me water[a] to drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.) 9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water[b] to drink, since I[c] am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water[d] to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you,[e] who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water!”[f] 16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people[g] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But an hour is coming—and now is here[h]—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.[i]
The Disciples and the Harvest
27 And at this point[j] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you seek?” or “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,[k] 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?” 30 They went out from the town and were coming to him.
31 In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something!”[l] 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples began to say[m] to one another, “No one brought him anything[n] to eat, did they?”[o] 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.[p] 36 The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 37 For in this instance[q] the saying is true, ‘It is one who sows and another who reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work.”
The Samaritans and the Savior of the World
39 Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking[r] him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word, 42 And they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of what you said[s] do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!”
Return to Galilee
43 And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland. 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they[t] had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).
A Royal Official’s Son Is Healed
46 Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick. 47 This man, when he[u] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people[v] see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” 49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.
51 Now as[w] he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. 52 So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was that[x] same hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed, and his whole household. 54 Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he[y] came from Judea into Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:7 Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “give”
- John 4:9 Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “ask”
- John 4:9 Here “since” is supplied as a component of the participle (“am”) which is understood as causal
- John 4:10 Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “give”
- John 4:12 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “are you” in the translation
- John 4:15 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- John 4:20 Here “people” is supplied in the translation because the Greek pronoun is plural
- John 4:23 The word “here” is not in the Greek text but is implied
- John 4:26 *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation
- John 4:27 The word “point” is not in the Greek text but is implied
- John 4:28 Assuming the term is used here in a generic sense to refer to persons of either gender, it should be translated “people”; if instead the term here refers only to the town leaders or elders who met at the town gate, then “men” would be appropriate
- John 4:31 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- John 4:33 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
- John 4:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- John 4:33 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “did they” in the translation
- John 4:35 Some interpreters and Bible translations place the word “already” at the beginning of the next verse: “Already the one who reaps receives wages …”
- John 4:37 The word “point” is not in the Greek text but is implied
- John 4:40 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)
- John 4:42 Literally “your speaking”
- John 4:45 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had seen”) which is understood as causal
- John 4:47 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
- John 4:48 Here “people” is supplied in the translation because the Greek verb (“see”) is plural
- John 4:51 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was going down”)
- John 4:53 Some manuscripts have “that it was at that same hour”
- John 4:54 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
João 4
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Jesus conversa com a mulher samaritana
4 Os fariseus ouviram dizer que Jesus estava a batizar e a fazer mais discípulos que João. 2 Embora, de facto, não era Jesus quem batizava, mas os seus discípulos. 3 Quando o Senhor constatou isso, deixou a Judeia e voltou para a província da Galileia.
4 Para isso, tinha de atravessar a Samaria. 5-6 Cerca do meio-dia, ao aproximar-se da localidade de Sicar, chegou ao poço de Jacob, no terreno que este dera a seu filho José. Cansado da longa caminhada, Jesus sentou-se junto ao poço. 7 Apareceu uma samaritana para tirar água e Jesus pediu-lhe: “Dá-me de beber.” 8 Os discípulos tinham ido à aldeia comprar comida.
9 A mulher estava admirada, pois os judeus não convivem com os samaritanos, e disse-lhe: “Como, sendo tu judeu, me pedes de beber a mim que sou samaritana?”
10 Jesus respondeu: “Se ao menos compreendesses o dom maravilhoso que Deus tem para ti e quem eu sou, serias tu a pedir-me que te desse água viva!”
11 “Mas tu não tens com que a tirar!”, tornou ela. “E o poço é fundo! Onde irias buscar essa água viva? 12 Serás maior que o nosso antepassado Jacob? Como poderás oferecer água melhor do que esta, que ele, os seus filhos e o seu gado beberam?”
13 Jesus respondeu: “As pessoas que bebem desta água depressa ficam outra vez com sede. 14 Mas a água que eu lhes der torna-se uma fonte sem fim dentro delas, dando-lhes vida eterna.”
15 “Senhor, dá-me dessa água, para não sentir mais sede e não ter de vir aqui tirar água!”
16 “Vai chamar o teu marido”, disse-lhe Jesus.
17-18 “Não tenho marido!” respondeu-lhe.
“É verdade, não tens marido. Porque tiveste cinco maridos e nem sequer estás casada com o homem com quem vives agora.”
19 “Senhor, deves ser profeta!”, exclamou ela.
20 “Mas diz-me: porque é que vocês, judeus, teimam que Jerusalém é o único sítio de adoração? Para nós, samaritanos, esse sítio é aqui no monte Gerizim, onde os nossos antepassados adoravam.”
21 Jesus esclareceu-a: “Acredita em mim, mulher. Vem o momento em que já não teremos de nos preocupar se o Pai deve ser adorado aqui ou em Jerusalém. 22 Vocês adoram o que desconhecem, ao passo que nós conhecemos, pois é através dos judeus que a salvação vem ao mundo. 23 Mas chega a hora, e é agora mesmo, em que os que verdadeiramente o adoram devem adorá-lo em espírito e verdade. É assim que o Pai quer que o adoremos. 24 Deus é espírito e os que o adoram devem adorá-lo em espírito e em verdade!”
25 A mulher disse: “Eu sei que há de vir o Messias, chamado Cristo, e que quando vier nos explicará tudo.”
26 Então Jesus disse-lhe: “Sou eu o Cristo!”
27 Nesse momento chegaram os discípulos, que ficaram espantados por encontrá-lo a falar com aquela mulher; mas ninguém lhe perguntou porquê. 28 A mulher deixou o balde junto ao poço. E voltando para a aldeia disse a toda a gente: 29 “Venham ver um homem que me disse tudo o que eu fiz! Não será ele o Cristo?” 30 Então o povo veio a correr da localidade para o ver.
31 Entretanto, os discípulos insistiam com Jesus para que comesse. 32 “Não!” disse-lhes. “Eu tenho um alimento que vocês não conhecem.” 33 E os discípulos puseram-se a perguntar uns aos outros quem lhe teria trazido comida.
34 Jesus explicou: “O meu alimento é fazer a vontade de Deus, que me enviou, e terminar a sua obra. 35 Pensam, porventura, que a ceifa só começará quando o verão acabar daqui a quatro meses? Olhem à vossa volta! Em torno de nós amadurecem vastos campos, já prontos para a ceifa. 36 Os ceifeiros recebem o seu salário e o fruto que colhem são pessoas trazidas para a vida eterna. E que alegria, tanto daquele que semeia como daquele que colhe! 37 Pois é bem verdade que um semeia o que outro irá colher. 38 Mandei-vos colher onde não semearam; outros tiveram o trabalho e vocês receberam a colheita.”
39 Muitos dos habitantes daquela terra samaritana creram em Jesus, levados por aquilo que a mulher afirmara: “Disse-me tudo o que fiz!” 40 Os que foram vê-lo junto ao poço pediram-lhe que ficasse na sua aldeia. E Jesus assim fez durante dois dias. 41 O suficiente para que muitos outros cressem depois de o ouvirem. 42 Então disseram à mulher: “Agora acreditamos porque nós próprios o ouvimos e não apenas pelo que nos contaste. É, de facto, o Salvador do mundo!”
Jesus cura o filho de um oficial
43 Depois de ter ficado ali dois dias, seguiu para a Galileia, 44 embora ele próprio tivesse dito que um profeta tem honras em toda a parte menos na sua própria terra. 45 Mas os galileus receberam-no de braços abertos, pois tinham estado em Jerusalém durante a festa da Páscoa e assistido aos seus milagres.
46 Regressou a Caná da Galileia, onde tinha transformado a água em vinho. Havia ali um homem, funcionário do governo, cujo filho estava doente em Cafarnaum. 47 Este homem, ao ouvir dizer que Jesus vinha da Judeia para a Galileia, foi ao seu encontro para lhe pedir que o acompanhasse e lhe curasse o filho que estava quase à morte.
48 Jesus perguntou-lhe: “Então nenhum de vocês acredita em mim a não ser vendo-me fazer sinais e maravilhas?”
49 Mas o homem rogou-lhe: “Senhor, vem já, antes que o meu filho morra!”
50 “Volta para casa porque o teu filho vai sobreviver!” O homem, crendo em Jesus, voltou para casa.
51 Ainda ia a caminho, quando vieram ao encontro alguns servos com a notícia de que o filho já estava bom. 52 Perguntou-lhes quando fora que o jovem se sentira curado e responderam: “Ontem à tarde, por volta da uma hora, a febre desapareceu.” 53 Então aquele pai compreendeu que isso sucedera no preciso momento em que Jesus lhe dissera: “O teu filho vai sobreviver.” Ele e toda a sua casa creram. 54 Foi este o segundo sinal de Jesus na Galileia depois de ter vindo da Judeia.
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