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John 4
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John 4
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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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La mujer samaritana
4 Por tanto, cuando el Señor(A) supo que los fariseos habían oído que Él[a] hacía y bautizaba(B) más discípulos que Juan 2 (aunque Jesús mismo no bautizaba(C), sino sus discípulos(D)), 3 salió de Judea(E) y partió otra vez para Galilea(F). 4 Y tenía que pasar por Samaria(G). 5 Llegó*, pues, a una ciudad de Samaria(H) llamada Sicar, cerca de la parcela de tierra que Jacob dio a su hijo José(I); 6 y allí estaba el pozo de Jacob. Entonces Jesús, cansado del camino, se sentó[b] junto al pozo. Era como la hora sexta[c]. 7 Una mujer de Samaria vino* a sacar agua, y Jesús le dijo*: Dame de beber. 8 Pues sus discípulos(J) habían ido a la ciudad(K) a comprar alimentos. 9 Entonces la mujer samaritana(L) le dijo*: ¿Cómo es que tú, siendo judío, me pides de beber a mí, que soy samaritana? (Porque los judíos no tienen tratos con los samaritanos(M).) 10 Respondió Jesús y le dijo: Si tú conocieras el don de Dios, y quién es el que te dice: «Dame de beber», tú le habrías pedido a Él, y Él te hubiera dado agua viva(N). 11 Ella le dijo*: Señor, no tienes con qué sacarla, y el pozo es hondo; ¿de dónde, pues, tienes esa agua viva(O)? 12 ¿Acaso eres tú mayor que nuestro padre Jacob, que nos dio el pozo(P) del cual bebió él mismo, y sus hijos, y sus ganados? 13 Respondió Jesús y le dijo: Todo el que beba de esta agua volverá a tener sed, 14 pero el que beba del agua que yo le daré, no tendrá sed jamás(Q), sino que el agua que yo le daré se convertirá en él en una fuente de agua que brota para vida eterna(R). 15 La mujer le dijo*: Señor, dame esa agua, para que no tenga sed(S) ni venga hasta aquí a sacarla. 16 Él le dijo*: Ve, llama a tu marido y ven acá. 17 Respondió la mujer y le dijo: No tengo marido. Jesús le dijo*: Bien has dicho: «No tengo marido», 18 porque cinco maridos has tenido, y el que ahora tienes no es tu marido; en eso has dicho la verdad. 19 La mujer le dijo*: Señor, me parece que tú eres profeta(T). 20 Nuestros padres adoraron(U) en este monte(V), y vosotros decís que en Jerusalén(W) está el lugar donde se debe adorar. 21 Jesús le dijo*: Mujer, créeme; la hora viene(X) cuando ni en este monte ni en Jerusalén adoraréis al Padre(Y). 22 Vosotros adoráis lo que no conocéis(Z); nosotros adoramos lo que conocemos, porque la salvación viene[d] de los judíos(AA). 23 Pero la hora viene, y ahora es(AB), cuando los verdaderos adoradores adorarán al Padre en espíritu(AC) y en verdad; porque ciertamente a los tales el Padre busca que le adoren. 24 Dios es espíritu[e], y los que le adoran deben adorarle en espíritu(AD) y en verdad. 25 La mujer le dijo*: Sé que el Mesías(AE) viene (el que es llamado Cristo(AF)); cuando Él venga nos declarará todo. 26 Jesús le dijo*: Yo soy(AG), el que habla contigo.
27 En esto llegaron sus discípulos(AH) y se admiraron de que hablara con una mujer, pero ninguno le preguntó: ¿Qué tratas de averiguar? o: ¿Por qué hablas con ella? 28 Entonces la mujer dejó su cántaro, fue a la ciudad y dijo* a los hombres: 29 Venid, ved a un hombre que me ha dicho todo lo que yo he hecho(AI). ¿No será este el Cristo[f](AJ)? 30 Y salieron de la ciudad e iban a Él. 31 Mientras tanto, los discípulos le rogaban, diciendo: Rabí[g](AK), come. 32 Pero Él les dijo: Yo tengo para comer una comida que vosotros no sabéis. 33 Los discípulos(AL) entonces se decían entre sí: ¿Le habrá traído alguien de comer? 34 Jesús les dijo*: Mi comida es hacer la voluntad del que me envió(AM) y llevar a cabo su obra(AN). 35 ¿No decís vosotros: «Todavía faltan cuatro meses, y después viene la siega»? He aquí, yo os digo: Alzad vuestros ojos y ved los campos que ya están blancos para la siega(AO). 36 Ya el segador recibe salario(AP) y recoge fruto(AQ) para vida eterna(AR), para que el que siembra se regocije juntamente con el que siega. 37 Porque en este caso el dicho es verdadero: «Uno es el que siembra y otro el que siega(AS)». 38 Yo os envié a segar lo que no habéis trabajado; otros han trabajado y vosotros habéis entrado en su labor.
39 Y de aquella ciudad(AT), muchos de los samaritanos creyeron en Él por la palabra de la mujer que daba testimonio, diciendo: Él me dijo todo lo que yo he hecho(AU). 40 De modo que cuando los samaritanos vinieron a Él, le rogaban que se quedara con ellos; y se quedó allí dos días. 41 Y muchos más creyeron por su palabra, 42 y decían a la mujer: Ya no creemos por lo que tú has dicho[h], porque nosotros mismos le hemos oído, y sabemos que este es en verdad el Salvador del mundo(AV).
43 Después de los dos días(AW), salió de allí para Galilea. 44 Porque Jesús mismo dio testimonio de que a un profeta no se le honra en su propia tierra(AX). 45 Así que cuando llegó a Galilea, los galileos le recibieron, pues habían visto todo lo que hizo en Jerusalén durante la fiesta(AY); porque ellos también habían ido a la fiesta.
Curación del hijo de un oficial del rey
46 Entonces vino otra vez a Caná de Galilea(AZ), donde había convertido el agua en vino(BA). Y había allí cierto oficial del rey cuyo hijo estaba enfermo en Capernaúm(BB). 47 Cuando él oyó que Jesús había venido de Judea a Galilea(BC), fue a su encuentro y le suplicaba que bajara y sanara a su hijo, porque estaba al borde de la muerte. 48 Jesús entonces le dijo: Si no veis señales[i] y prodigios(BD), no creeréis. 49 El oficial del rey le dijo*: Señor, baja antes de que mi hijo muera. 50 Jesús le dijo*: Vete, tu hijo vive. Y el hombre creyó la palabra que Jesús le dijo y se fue(BE). 51 Y mientras bajaba, sus siervos le salieron al encuentro y le dijeron que su hijo[j] vivía. 52 Entonces les preguntó a qué hora había empezado a mejorar. Y le respondieron: Ayer a la hora séptima[k] se le quitó[l] la fiebre. 53 El padre entonces se dio cuenta que fue a la hora en que Jesús le dijo: Tu hijo vive. Y creyó él y toda su casa(BF). 54 Esta[m] fue la segunda señal[n](BG) que Jesús hizo cuando fue de Judea a Galilea(BH).
Footnotes
- Juan 4:1 Lit., Jesús
- Juan 4:6 Lit., se sentó así
- Juan 4:6 I.e., las doce del día
- Juan 4:22 Lit., es
- Juan 4:24 O, Dios es un Espíritu
- Juan 4:29 I.e., el Mesías
- Juan 4:31 O, Maestro
- Juan 4:42 O, por tus palabras
- Juan 4:48 O, milagros
- Juan 4:51 O, muchacho
- Juan 4:52 I.e., la una de la tarde
- Juan 4:52 Lit., le dejó
- Juan 4:54 Lit., Y esta de nuevo
- Juan 4:54 O, un segundo milagro
John 4
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John 4
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Jesus Goes to Galilee
4 So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and returned again to Galilee. 4 Now [a]He had to go through [b]Samaria. 5 So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).
The Samaritan Woman
7 Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”— 8 For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food— 9 The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a [c]Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).” 11 She said to Him, “Sir, [d]You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father [e]Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?” 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor [have to continually] come all the way here to draw.” 16 At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your [f]husband. You have said this truthfully.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem [at the temple].” 21 Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers. 24 God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ—the Anointed); when that One comes, He will tell us everything [we need to know].” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah).”
27 Just then His disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. However, no one said, “What are You asking about?” or, “Why are You talking to her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done! Can this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?” 30 So the people left the city and were coming to Him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus [to have a meal], saying, “Rabbi (Teacher), eat.” 32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest. 36 Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”
The Samaritans
39 Now many Samaritans from that city believed in Him and trusted Him [as Savior] because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed in Him [with a deep, abiding trust] because of His word [His personal message to them]; 42 and they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for [now] we have heard Him for ourselves and know [with confident assurance] that this One is truly the Savior of [all] the world.”
43 After the two days He went on from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans [g]welcomed Him, since they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they too came to the feast.
Healing a Nobleman’s Son
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a [h]certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he [i]went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you [people] see [miraculous] signs and wonders, you [simply] will not believe.” 49 The royal official pleaded with Him, “Sir, do come down [at once] before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home. 51 As he was already going down [the road], his servants met him and reported that his son was living [and was healthy]. 52 So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives”; and he and his entire household believed and confidently trusted [in Him as Savior]. 54 This is the second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed [in Cana] after He had come from Judea to Galilee [revealing that He is the Messiah].
Footnotes
- John 4:4 Jesus went through Samaria to show that He is the Savior of all people.
- John 4:4 Samaria was centrally located between Judea (south) and Galilee (north). The Jews despised Samaritans because they were Jews who had intermarried with non-Jews and followed a heretical religion. Most Jews traveled out of their way to avoid Samaria.
- John 4:9 The Jews considered Samaritan women ceremonially unclean.
- John 4:11 The woman’s response is due to the fact that “living water” was the normal description for running water. She probably thought that Jesus was referring to the underground water source that fed the well.
- John 4:12 Jacob (renamed Israel in Gen 32:28) was the son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham and father of the twelve sons who established the twelve tribes of Israel.
- John 4:18 God does not regard cohabitation as marriage. Marriage is a binding, legal covenant between a man and a woman.
- John 4:45 In view of John’s wording in v 44 (For Jesus Himself declared...), the Galileans evidently were very interested in His miracles, but did not recognize or regard Jesus as their source of salvation.
- John 4:46 Probably an official of Herod Antipas.
- John 4:47 Capernaum to Cana was about eighteen miles.
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