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John 4
New Catholic Bible
John 4
New Catholic Bible
The Savior of the World and the New Worship
Chapter 4
Journeying to Galilee through Samaria.[a] 1 Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been informed that he had more disciples and was baptizing more people than John 2 (although actually it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who were baptizing), 3 he left Judea and set forth for Galilee.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman.[b] 4 He had to pass through Samaria.[c] 5 So he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar,[d] near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[e]
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the town to purchase food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew. How can you ask me, a Samaritan woman,[f] for some water to drink?” (Jews do not share anything in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied,
“If you recognized the gift of God
and who it is that is asking you for something to drink,
you would have asked him
and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you do not have a bucket, and the well is deep.[g] Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself along with his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus said to her,
“Everyone who drinks this water
will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks the water that I will give him
will never be thirsty.
The water that I will give him
will become a spring of water within him
welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I may not be thirsty and have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,[h] but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus told her,
“Believe me, woman,
the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain
nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we do know,
for salvation is from the Jews.
23 “But the hour is coming,
indeed it is already here,
when the true worshipers
will worship the Father
in Spirit and truth.[i]
Indeed it is worshipers like these
that the Father seeks.
24 God is Spirit,
and those who worship him
must worship in Spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will reveal everything to us.”[j] 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he,[k] the one who is speaking to you.”
27 At this point, his disciples returned, and they were astonished to find him speaking with a woman, but no one asked, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you conversing with her?” 28 The woman left behind her water jar and went off to the town, where she said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?” 30 And so they departed from the town and made their way to see him.
31 The Time of the Harvest.[l] Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he told them,
“I have food to eat
about which you do not know.”
33 Then his disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will
of the one who sent me,
and to accomplish his work.
35 Do you not have a saying,
‘Four months more,
and then comes the harvest’?
“I tell you,
open your eyes and look at the fields;
already they are white for the harvest.
36 The reaper is even now receiving his pay;
already he is gathering the crops for eternal life
so that the sower and the reaper can rejoice together.
37 “Thus, the saying holds true,
‘One sows and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap
what you had not worked for.
Others have performed the work,
and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
39 Jesus Is Truly the Savior of the World.[m] Many Samaritans from that town came to believe in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they pleaded with him to stay with them, and he remained there for two days. 41 And many more began to believe in him because of the words he spoke to them. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe simply because of what you said, for we have heard him for ourselves, and we are convinced that this man is truly the Savior of the world.”
43 Return to Galilee.[n] When the two days were over, Jesus departed for Galilee. 44 He himself had declared that a prophet is not treated with honor in his own hometown. 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, having been at the feast themselves.
46 Jesus Heals the Official’s Son.[o] He went again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. At Capernaum, there was a royal official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and pleaded that he come and heal his son who was near death.
48 Jesus said to him, “Unless you witness signs and wonders, you will not believe.” 49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus replied, “Return home. Your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and he departed. 51 While he was still on his way, his servants met him saying that his child was going to live. 52 He asked them at what time the boy had begun to recover, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon.”[p] 53 Then the father realized that was the exact hour at which Jesus had assured him, “Your son will live,” and he and his entire household came to believe.
54 This was the second sign that Jesus performed after returning from Judea into Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:1 Jesus is forced to leave Judea in order to distance himself from the hostility of the Pharisees who are jealous of his growing popularity. The journey through Samaria affords him an opportunity to proclaim the Gospel in a mission land, so to speak, for the Samaritans were tantamount to Gentiles in the eyes of the Jews.
- John 4:4 Jesus converses with a woman, a daughter of Samaria, and therefore belonging to what the Jews considered to be a heretical breed and as accursed as the Gentiles; in addition, she is well known as a sinner. But God’s gift is for everyone. Jesus is the living water, and for peoples dwelling on the edge of the wilderness, living water symbolizes life, hope, renewal, and spiritual riches.
Jesus urges the new worship of God as Father “in Spirit and truth.” This means to pray to the Father in the Holy Spirit and in Jesus who is the truth. Such worship springs up from the heart; it comes from the Spirit. - John 4:4 The inhabitants of Samaria were a mixed race, descended from the intermarriage of Israelites and Assyrian colonists. Although they worshiped the same God as the Jews and believed in the Pentateuch, they disowned the Jerusalem temple and priesthood and erected a rival sanctuary on Mount Gerizim in the 4th century B.C. (see 2 Mac 6:2).
- John 4:5 Sychar was in the neighborhood of ancient Shechem. See Gen 33:18-20; 48:21f.
- John 4:6 Noon: literally, “the sixth hour.” See note on Mk 15:25.
- John 4:9 Samaritan woman: characterized as ritually unclean by the Jews, who were therefore forbidden to drink from any vessel handled by them.
- John 4:11 Well is deep: the depth of the well, which still exists, has not been determined. The estimates given over the centuries range from 240 feet to 150 feet to 75 feet (the most recent).
- John 4:20 This mountain: Gerizim (2,849 feet high, south of Sychar).
- John 4:23 In Spirit and truth: the Spirit is the Holy Spirit and the truth is Jesus. For he is the true Son of God.
- John 4:25 The Samaritan Messiah was called the Ta’eb. He revealed the secrets of God to his people. Jesus reveals to us how much God loves us.
- John 4:26 I am he: this phrase may also be translated as “I AM,” the name Yahweh used for himself in the Old Testament (see note on Mk 6:50). The phrase “I am” is used in the text of this Gospel 23 times (4:26; 6:20, 35, 41, 48, 51; 8:12, 18, 24, 28, 58; 10:7, 9, 11, 14; 11:25; 13:19; 14:6; 15:1, 5; 18:5, 6, 8). In several of these passages, Jesus joins the phrase with seven significant metaphors that express his saving relationship toward the world: “I am the bread of life” (Jn 6:35, 41, 48, 51). “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12). “I am the gate of the sheepfold” (Jn 10:7, 9). “I am the good shepherd” (Jn 10:11, 14). “I am the resurrection and the life” (Jn 11:25). “I am the way and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6). “I am the true vine” (Jn 15:1, 5).
- John 4:31 Jesus is not thinking of an ordinary harvest. The arrival of the Samaritans announces the crops of the end time, the harvest in which all will be gathered together by the coming of God. Samaritans wore white robes: they are the harvest.
- John 4:39 The personal and prolonged encounter with Jesus allows believers to measure the magnitude of their mission. This Jewish teacher is not only a prophet who announces salvation. He is the Messiah who brings about salvation for the whole world, for all human beings.
- John 4:43 Jesus’ stay in Galilee and his ministry in his own town will not be crowned by a more satisfactory success than the one in Judea, the heart of Judaism. With this sad reflection, the fourth evangelist confirms a saying of the Lord found in Mt 13:57 and parallels.
- John 4:46 Jesus shows the price of faith (believing in the Word) to his unbelieving companions (v. 44) even though they had already seen him at work. Faith, and it alone, is necessary to be saved. To believe is to welcome in Jesus the salvation that God gives. The miracle is first of all a response to faith. Then it sheds light on the man’s faith and makes it strong. The cure is reported less to bring a demonstration of faith than to call upon us to believe. This account may be a third version of the cure of the centurion’s son (Mt 8:5-13) or servant (Lk 7:1-10).
- John 4:52 One o’clock in the afternoon: literally, “the seventh hour.” See note on Mk 15:25.
John 4
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John 4
English Standard Version
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and (A)baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed (B)again for Galilee. 4 (C)And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field (D)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, (E)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[a]
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, (F)“Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” ((G)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you (H)living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 (I)Are you greater than our father Jacob? (J)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but (K)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him (L)will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become (M)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, (N)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, (O)call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that (P)you are (Q)a prophet. 20 (R)Our fathers worshiped on (S)this mountain, but you say that (T)in Jerusalem is (U)the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, (V)“Woman, believe me, (W)the hour is coming when (X)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 (Y)You worship what you do not know; (Z)we worship what we know, for (AA)salvation is (AB)from the Jews. 23 But (AC)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (AD)in spirit and (AE)truth, for the Father (AF)is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that (AG)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, (AH)he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, (AI)“I who speak to you am he.”
27 Just then (AJ)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man (AK)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, (AL)“Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, (AM)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, (AN)“My food is (AO)to do the will of him who sent me and (AP)to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that (AQ)the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that (AR)sower and (AS)reaper (AT)may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, (AU)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap (AV)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, (AW)and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans (AX)from that town believed in him (AY)because of (AZ)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed (BA)because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, (BB)and we know that this is indeed (BC)the Savior (BD)of the world.”
43 After (BE)the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified (BF)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, (BG)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For (BH)they too had gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
46 So he came again to (BI)Cana in Galilee, (BJ)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus (BK)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, (BL)“Unless you[c] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down (BM)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 went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants[d] met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour[e] the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, (BN)and all his household. 54 (BO)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
Ioan 4
Nouă Traducere În Limba Română
Ioan 4
Nouă Traducere În Limba Română
Isus şi femeia samariteancă
4 Când Isus[a] a aflat că fariseii au auzit că El face şi botează mai mulţi ucenici decât Ioan – 2 cu toate că nu Isus Însuşi boteza, ci ucenicii Lui – 3 a părăsit Iudeea şi S-a întors iarăşi în Galileea. 4 Trebuia să treacă prin Samaria[b], 5 prin urmare, a ajuns într-o cetate a Samariei, numită Sihar, aproape de ogorul pe care Iacov i-l dăduse fiului său Iosif. 6 Acolo se afla fântâna lui Iacov. Isus, obosit de călătorie, S-a aşezat lângă fântână. Era cam pe la ceasul al şaselea[c].
7 O femeie din Samaria a venit să scoată apă. Isus i-a zis:
– Dă-Mi să beau!
8 Ucenicii Lui se duseseră în cetate să cumpere de mâncare.
9 Femeia samariteancă I-a zis:
– Cum de Tu, iudeu, ceri să bei de la mine, femeie samariteancă?!
Iudeii, într-adevăr, nu au legături cu samaritenii[d].
10 Isus i-a răspuns:
– Dacă ai fi cunoscut tu darul lui Dumnezeu şi Cine este Cel Ce-ţi zice: „Dă-Mi să beau!“, tu însăţi I-ai fi cerut, şi El ţi-ar fi dat apă vie!
11 Femeia I-a zis:
– Domnule, n-ai găleată, iar fântâna este adâncă. De unde ai deci această apă vie?! 12 Eşti Tu mai mare decât părintele nostru Iacov, care ne-a dat fântâna şi care a băut el însuşi din ea, atât el, cât şi fiii şi turmele lui?
13 Isus i-a răspuns:
– Oricui bea din apa aceasta, îi va fi iarăşi sete. 14 Dar celui ce bea din apa pe care i-o voi da Eu, nu-i va mai fi sete în veac, ci apa pe care i-o voi da Eu va deveni în el un izvor de apă, ţâşnind spre viaţa veşnică.
15 Femeia I-a zis:
– Domnule, dă-mi şi mie această apă, ca să nu-mi mai fie sete şi să nu mai vin până aici să scot!
16 El i-a zis:
– Du-te, cheamă-l pe soţul tău şi vino aici!
17 Femeia I-a răspuns:
– N-am soţ!
Isus i-a zis:
– Ai spus bine: „N-am soţ!“, 18 pentru că cinci soţi ai avut, iar cel pe care-l ai acum nu-ţi este soţ. Este adevărat ceea ce ai spus.
19 Femeia I-a zis:
– Domnule, văd că Tu eşti profet! 20 Strămoşii noştri s-au închinat pe muntele acesta[e], iar voi spuneţi că în Ierusalim este locul unde trebuie să se închine oamenii.
21 Isus i-a răspuns:
– Crede-Mă, femeie, că vine ceasul când nu vă veţi mai închina Tatălui nici pe muntele acesta şi nici în Ierusalim. 22 Voi vă închinaţi la ceea ce nu cunoaşteţi; noi ne închinăm la ceea ce cunoaştem, căci mântuirea este de la iudei. 23 Dar vine ceasul, şi acum a şi venit, când adevăraţii închinători I se vor închina Tatălui în duh şi în adevăr; căci astfel de închinători caută Tatăl. 24 Dumnezeu este Duh, iar cei ce I se închină trebuie să I se închine în duh şi în adevăr.
25 Femeia I-a zis:
– Ştiu că urmează să vină Mesia – Căruia I se zice Cristos. Când va veni El, ne va spune toate lucrurile.
26 Isus i-a zis:
– Eu, Cel Care-ţi vorbeşte, sunt Acela.
27 Chiar atunci au venit ucenicii Lui şi se mirau că vorbea cu o femeie. Totuşi nici unul n-a întrebat: „Ce cauţi[f]?“ sau „De ce vorbeşti cu ea?“ 28 Femeia a lăsat urciorul, a plecat în cetate şi le-a zis oamenilor: 29 „Veniţi să vedeţi un Om care mi-a spus tot ce am făcut! Ar putea să fie Acesta Cristosul?“ 30 Ei au ieşit din cetate şi veneau spre El. 31 Între timp, ucenicii Îl rugau:
– Rabbi[g], mănâncă!
32 Dar El le-a răspuns:
– Eu am de mâncat o mâncare despre care voi nu ştiţi.
33 Ca urmare, ucenicii şi-au zis unii altora: „Nu cumva I-a adus cineva de mâncare?“
34 Isus le-a mai zis:
– Mâncarea Mea este să fac voia Celui Ce M-a trimis şi să împlinesc lucrarea Lui. 35 Nu ziceţi voi că mai sunt încă patru luni şi vine secerişul? Iată, Eu vă spun, ridicaţi-vă ochii şi priviţi ogoarele; ele sunt albe, gata pentru seceriş! Chiar acum, 36 cel[h] ce seceră primeşte răsplată şi strânge rod pentru viaţa veşnică, pentru ca şi cel ce seamănă şi cel ce seceră să se bucure împreună. 37 Căci în această privinţă este adevărată zicala: „Unul seamănă, iar altul seceră!“ 38 Eu v-am trimis să seceraţi acolo unde nu voi v-aţi străduit; alţii s-au străduit, iar voi aţi intrat în strădania lor.
39 Mulţi samariteni din cetatea aceea au crezut în El din pricina mărturiei femeii care zicea: „Mi-a spus tot ce-am făcut!“ 40 Aşadar, când samaritenii au venit la El, L-au rugat să rămână la ei. Şi El a rămas acolo două zile. 41 Mult mai mulţi au crezut apoi din pricina cuvintelor Lui 42 şi-i ziceau femeii: „Acum nu mai credem din pricina spuselor tale, căci am auzit noi înşine şi ştim că, într-adevăr, Acesta este Mântuitorul lumii!“
Vindecarea fiului unui slujbaş al regelui
43 După cele două zile, Isus a plecat de acolo spre Galileea. 44 Căci El Însuşi spusese că un profet nu are parte de onoare în patria lui. 45 Când a ajuns în Galileea, galileenii L-au primit bine. Ei văzuseră tot ce făcuse în Ierusalim la sărbătoare, căci şi ei fuseseră la sărbătoare.
46 A venit din nou în Cana Galileii, unde prefăcuse apa în vin. Era acolo un slujbaş al regelui[i], al cărui fiu era bolnav în Capernaum. 47 Când acesta a auzit că Isus a venit din Iudeea în Galileea, s-a dus la El şi L-a rugat să vină să-i vindece fiul, căci era pe moarte.
48 Isus i-a zis:
– Dacă nu vedeţi semne şi minuni, nicidecum nu veţi crede!
49 Slujbaşul regelui I-a zis:
– Doamne, vino până nu moare copilaşul meu!
50 Isus i-a răspuns:
– Du-te; fiul tău trăieşte!
Omul a crezut cuvintele pe care i le-a spus Isus şi a plecat. 51 În timp ce se cobora el spre casă, sclavii lui l-au întâmpinat şi i-au zis că fiul lui trăieşte! 52 Atunci el i-a întrebat de ceasul în care începuse să-i fie mai bine. Ei i-au răspuns: „Ieri la ceasul al şaptelea[j] l-a lăsat febra.“ 53 Tatăl a recunoscut că tocmai în ceasul acela Isus îi spusese: „Fiul tău trăieşte!“ Şi a crezut el şi toată casa lui.
54 Acesta a fost al doilea semn pe care l-a făcut Isus după ce a venit din Iudeea în Galileea.
Footnotes
- Ioan 4:1 Multe mss timpurii şi importante conţin Domnul în loc de Isus
- Ioan 4:4 Nu este vorba despre o necesitate condiţionată geografic, ci de una condiţionată de planul lui Dumnezeu
- Ioan 4:6 Ora 12:00
- Ioan 4:9 Sau: nu folosesc vasele pe care le-au atins (folosit) şi samaritenii; iudeii îi considerau pe samariteni necuraţi din punct de vedere ceremonial, considerând că folosirea unui vas care a fost atins de un samaritean îi va face să devină necuraţi din punct de vedere ceremonial. Samaritenii erau o populaţie de rasă amestecată, rezultată în urma căsătoriilor dintre israeliţii rămaşi după deportarea asiriană (722 î.Cr.) şi populaţiile aduse din alte părţi de către asirieni (2 Regi 17:24)
- Ioan 4:20 Muntele Garizim, unde samaritenii au ridicat un templu, în sec. IV î.Cr.; şi în v. 21
- Ioan 4:27 Vezi v. 23 pentru a înţelege mai bine sensul acestei întrebări
- Ioan 4:31 Vezi nota de la 1:38
- Ioan 4:36 Sau: gata pentru seceriş chiar acum! 36 Cel
- Ioan 4:46 Probabil al tetrarhului Irod Antipa (4 î.Cr.-39 d.Cr.), unul dintre fiii lui Irod cel Mare (37-4 î.Cr.); tetrarhul domnea peste a patra parte a unei regiuni, fiind inferior unui rege şi stăpânind doar cu aprobarea romanilor
- Ioan 4:52 Ora 13:00
John 4
New International Version
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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