John 4
New Living Translation
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 Jesus[a] knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did). 3 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. 7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.[b] She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”
11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? 12 And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13 Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied.
Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband— 18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. 20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim,[c] where our ancestors worshiped?”
21 Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. 23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. 24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!”[d]
27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?” 28 The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?” 30 So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”
33 “Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other.
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. 35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe[e] for harvest. 36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! 37 You know the saying, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ And it’s true. 38 I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!” 40 When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days, 41 long enough for many more to hear his message and believe. 42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee. 44 He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown. 45 Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.
46 As he traveled through Galilee, he came to Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government official in nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son, who was about to die.
48 Jesus asked, “Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now before my little boy dies.”
50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
51 While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. 52 He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!” 53 Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did in Galilee after coming from Judea.
John 4
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Samaritan Woman
4 Jesus[a] found out that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John, 2 though it was not Jesus himself who was baptizing but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Then Jesus, being tired from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.[b]
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate 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 living water.”
11 “Sir,” she said, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his animals.”
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never be thirsty ever again. Rather, the water I will give him will become in him a spring of water, bubbling up to eternal life.”
15 “Sir, give me this water,” the woman said to him, “so I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband, and come back here.”
17 “I have no husband,” the woman answered.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say, ‘I have no husband.’ 18 In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews insist that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will not worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming and now is here when the real worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for those are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back into town. She said to the people, 29 “Come, see the man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 They left the town and came to him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33 Then the disciples said to each other, “Did anyone bring him something to eat?”
34 Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘Four more months and the harvest will be here’? Pay attention to what I am telling you. Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are already[c] ripe for harvest. 36 The reaper is getting paid and is gathering grain for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. 37 Indeed in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap a harvest for which you did no hard work. Others have done the hard work, and you have benefitted from their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony: “He told me everything 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 Many more believed because of his message. 42 They told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Officer’s Son
43 After two days, Jesus left for Galilee. 44 Now Jesus himself had testified that a prophet is not honored in his own country.
45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Festival in Jerusalem, because they also had gone to the Festival.
46 Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.
In Capernaum, there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, because his son was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, “Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders, you certainly will not believe.”
49 The royal official said to him, “Lord, come down before my little boy dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son is going to live.”
The man believed this word that Jesus spoke to him and left.
51 Already as he was going down, his servants met him with the news that his boy was going to live. 52 So he asked them what time his son got better. They told him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour[d] the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realized that was the exact time when Jesus had told him, “Your son is going to live.” And he himself and his whole household believed.
54 This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did after he came from Judea into Galilee.
Juan 4
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Si Jesus at ang Babaeng Taga-Samaria
4 1-2 Nabalitaan ng mga Pariseo na mas marami na ang mga tagasunod ni Jesus kaysa kay Juan, at mas marami na ang nabautismuhan niya. (Kahit na hindi mismong si Jesus ang nagbabautismo kundi ang mga tagasunod niya.) Nang malaman ni Jesus na nabalitaan ito ng mga Pariseo, 3 umalis siya sa Judea at bumalik sa Galilea. 4 Para makabalik sa Galilea, kailangan niyang dumaan sa Samaria.
5 Nang dumadaan na sila sa Samaria, dumating sila sa isang bayan na tinatawag na Sycar, malapit sa lupaing ibinigay ni Jacob sa anak niyang si Jose. 6 May balon doon na ginawa ni Jacob. Dahil tanghaling-tapat na noon at pagod na si Jesus sa paglalakbay, umupo siya sa tabi ng balon para magpahinga. 7-8 Tumuloy naman ang mga tagasunod niya sa bayan upang bumili ng pagkain. Habang nakaupo si Jesus, dumating ang isang babaeng taga-Samaria para umigib. Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Pwede bang makiinom?” 9 Sumagot ang babae, “Kayo po ay isang Judio at ako ay Samaritano, at babae pa.[a] Bakit po kayo makikiinom sa akin?” (Sinabi niya ito dahil hindi nakikitungo ang mga Judio sa mga Samaritano.) 10 Sinabi ni Jesus sa babae, “Kung alam mo lang ang ipinagkakaloob ng Dios, at kung sino ang nakikiinom sa iyo, baka ikaw pa ang manghingi sa akin para bigyan kita ng tubig na nagbibigay-buhay.” 11 Sinabi ng babae, “Malalim po ang balon at wala kayong pang-igib. Saan po kayo kukuha ng tubig na nagbibigay-buhay? 12 Higit pa po ba kayo sa ating ninuno na si Jacob na humukay ng balong ito? Siya at ang mga anak niya, pati ang mga hayop niya ay dito umiinom noong araw.” 13 Sumagot si Jesus, “Ang lahat ng umiinom ng tubig na itoʼy muling mauuhaw, 14 pero ang sinumang iinom ng tubig na ibibigay ko ay hindi na muling mauuhaw. Dahil ang tubig na ibibigay ko ay magiging tulad ng isang bukal sa loob niya na magbibigay ng buhay na walang hanggan.” 15 Sinabi ng babae, “Bigyan nʼyo po ako ng tubig na sinasabi nʼyo upang hindi na ako muling mauhaw at hindi ko na kailangan pang pumarito para umigib.” 16 Sinabi sa kanya ni Jesus, “Umuwi ka muna at isama mo rito ang iyong asawa.” 17 “Wala po akong asawa,” sagot ng babae. Sinabi sa kanya ni Jesus, “Tama ang sinabi mo na wala kang asawa, 18 dahil lima na ang naging asawa mo, at ang kinakasama mo ngayon ay hindi mo tunay na asawa. Nagsasabi ka nga ng totoo.” 19 Sumagot ang babae, “Sa tingin ko, isa po kayong propeta. 20 Ang aming mga ninuno ay sumamba sa Dios sa bundok na ito, pero kayong mga Judio ay nagsasabi na sa Jerusalem lang dapat sumamba ang mga tao.” 21 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Maniwala ka sa akin; darating ang panahon na hindi na kayo sasamba sa Ama sa bundok na ito o sa Jerusalem. 22 Kayo na mga Samaritano ay hindi nakakakilala sa sinasamba ninyo. Ngunit kilala naming mga Judio ang aming sinasamba, dahil sa pamamagitan namin ay ililigtas ng Dios ang mga tao. 23 Tandaan mo, darating ang panahon, at narito na nga, na ang mga tunay na sumasamba ay sasamba sa Ama sa espiritu at katotohanan. Ganito ang uri ng mga sumasamba na hinahanap ng Ama. 24 Ang Dios ay espiritu, kaya ang sumasamba sa kanya ay dapat sumamba sa pamamagitan ng espiritu at katotohanan.”
25 Sinabi ng babae, “Nalalaman ko pong darating ang Mesias na tinatawag ding Cristo. At pagdating niya, ipapaliwanag niya sa amin ang lahat ng bagay.” 26 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Akong nagsasalita sa iyo ngayon ang tinutukoy mo.”
27 Nang sandaling iyon, dumating ang mga tagasunod ni Jesus. Nagtaka sila nang madatnan nilang nakikipag-usap siya sa isang babae. Pero wala ni isa man sa kanila ang nagtanong kung ano ang kailangan niya, at hindi rin sila nagtanong kay Jesus kung bakit nakikipag-usap siya sa babae.
28 Iniwan ng babae ang kanyang banga, bumalik sa bayan at sinabi sa mga taga-roon, 29 “Halikayo! Ipapakita ko sa inyo ang taong alam na alam ang lahat ng ginawa ko! Maaaring siya na nga ang Cristo.” 30 Kaya pinuntahan ng mga tao si Jesus.
31 Samantala, pinapakiusapan ng mga tagasunod niya si Jesus na kumain na. 32 Pero sumagot si Jesus, “May pagkain akong hindi ninyo alam.” 33 Kaya nagtanungan ang mga tagasunod niya, “May nagdala kaya sa kanya ng pagkain?” 34 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanila, “Ang pagkain ko ay ang pagsunod sa kalooban ng nagsugo sa akin at ang pagtupad sa kanyang ipinapagawa. 35 Hindi ba sinasabi nʼyo na apat na buwan pa bago ang anihan? Ngunit sinasabi ko sa inyo, anihan na. Tingnan nʼyo ang mga taong dumarating, para silang mga pananim sa bukid na hinog na at pwede nang anihin! 36 Kayong mga tagapag-ani ay tatanggap ng gantimpala mula sa Dios. At ang mga taong inaani ninyo ay bibigyan niya ng buhay na walang hanggan. Kaya magkasamang matutuwa ang nagtanim ng salita ng Dios at ang nag-ani. 37 Totoo ang kasabihang, ‘Iba ang nagtatanim at iba rin ang umaani.’ 38 Sinugo ko kayo upang anihin ang hindi ninyo itinanim. Iba ang nagtanim ng salita ng Dios, at kayo ang umaani ng kanilang pinaghirapan.”
Maraming Samaritano ang Sumampalataya
39 Maraming Samaritano sa bayang iyon ang sumampalataya kay Jesus dahil sa sinabi ng babae na alam ni Jesus ang lahat ng ginawa niya. 40 Kaya pagdating ng mga Samaritano kay Jesus, hiniling nila na manatili muna siya roon sa kanila. At nanatili nga siya sa kanila ng dalawang araw.
41 Dahil sa pangangaral niya, marami pa sa kanila ang sumampalataya. 42 Sinabi ng mga tao sa babae, “Sumasampalataya kami ngayon hindi lang dahil sa sinabi mo sa amin ang tungkol sa kanya, kundi dahil sa narinig namin mismo sa kanya. At alam naming siya nga ang Tagapagligtas ng mundo.”
Pinagaling ni Jesus ang Anak ng Isang Opisyal
43 Pagkatapos ng dalawang araw na pamamalagi roon ni Jesus, umalis siya papuntang Galilea. 44 (Si Jesus mismo ang nagsabi na ang isang propeta ay hindi iginagalang sa sarili niyang bayan.) 45 Nang dumating siya sa Galilea, malugod siyang tinanggap ng mga tao, dahil naroon sila sa Jerusalem noong Pista ng Paglampas ng Anghel at nakita nila ang lahat ng ginawa niya roon.
46 Muling bumalik si Jesus sa bayan ng Cana sa Galilea kung saan ginawa niyang alak ang tubig. Doon ay may isang opisyal ng pamahalaan na ang anak na lalaki ay may sakit at nasa Capernaum. 47 Nang mabalitaan niyang bumalik si Jesus sa Galilea mula sa Judea, pinuntahan niya ito. Nakiusap siya kay Jesus na pumunta sa Capernaum at pagalingin ang anak niyang nag-aagaw-buhay. 48 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Hanggaʼt hindi kayo nakakakita ng mga himala at kababalaghan, hindi kayo maniniwala sa akin.” 49 Sumagot ang opisyal, “Sumama na po kayo sa akin bago mamatay ang anak ko.” 50 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Pwede ka nang umuwi. Magaling na ang anak mo.” Naniwala ang opisyal sa sinabi ni Jesus at umuwi siya. 51 Habang nasa daan pa lang ay sinalubong na siya ng mga alipin niya at sinabi sa kanya na magaling na ang anak niya. 52 Kaya tinanong niya kung anong oras ito gumaling. Sumagot sila, “Kahapon po ng mga ala-una ng hapon ay nawala na ang lagnat niya.” 53 Naalala ng opisyal na nang oras ding iyon ay sinabi sa kanya ni Jesus na magaling na ang anak niya. Kaya siya at ang buong pamilya niya ay sumampalataya kay Jesus.
54 Ito ang ikalawang himala na ginawa ni Jesus sa Galilea pagkagaling niya sa Judea.
Footnotes
- 4:9 Ang mga Judio at mga Samaritano noon ay hindi nakikitungo sa isaʼt isa, lalo na ang mga lalaki sa babae.
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