Juan 4
Dios Habla Hoy
Jesús y la mujer de Samaria
4 Los fariseos se enteraron de que Jesús hacía más discípulos y bautizaba más que Juan 2 (aunque en realidad no era Jesús el que bautizaba, sino sus discípulos). 3 Cuando Jesús lo supo, salió de Judea para volver a Galilea.
4 En su viaje, tenía que pasar por la región de Samaria. 5 De modo que llegó a un pueblo de Samaria que se llamaba Sicar, cerca del terreno que Jacob había dado en herencia a su hijo José. 6 Allí estaba el pozo de Jacob. Jesús, cansado del camino, se sentó junto al pozo. Era cerca del mediodía. 7-8 Los discípulos habían ido al pueblo a comprar algo de comer. En eso, una mujer de Samaria llegó al pozo a sacar agua, y Jesús le dijo:
—Dame un poco de agua.
9 Pero como los judíos no tienen trato con los samaritanos, la mujer le respondió:
—¿Cómo es que tú, siendo judío, me pides agua a mí, que soy samaritana?
10 Jesús le contestó:
—Si supieras lo que Dios da y quién es el que te está pidiendo agua, tú le pedirías a él, y él te daría agua viva.
11 La mujer le dijo:
—Señor, ni siquiera tienes con qué sacar agua, y el pozo es muy hondo: ¿de dónde vas a darme agua viva? 12 Nuestro antepasado Jacob nos dejó este pozo, del que él mismo bebía y del que bebían también sus hijos y sus animales. ¿Acaso eres tú más que él?
13 Jesús le contestó:
—Todos los que beben de esta agua, volverán a tener sed; 14 pero el que beba del agua que yo le daré, nunca volverá a tener sed. Porque el agua que yo le daré se convertirá en él en manantial de agua que brotará dándole vida eterna.
15 La mujer le dijo:
—Señor, dame de esa agua, para que no vuelva yo a tener sed ni tenga que venir aquí a sacar agua.
16 Jesús le dijo:
—Ve a llamar a tu marido y vuelve acá.
17 La mujer le contestó:
—No tengo marido.
Jesús le dijo:
—Bien dices que no tienes marido; 18 porque has tenido cinco maridos, y el que ahora tienes no es tu marido. Es cierto lo que has dicho.
19 Al oír esto, la mujer le dijo:
—Señor, ya veo que eres un profeta. 20 Nuestros antepasados, los samaritanos, adoraron a Dios aquí, en este monte; pero ustedes los judíos dicen que Jerusalén es el lugar donde debemos adorarlo.
21 Jesús le contestó:
—Créeme, mujer, que llega la hora en que ustedes adorarán al Padre sin tener que venir a este monte ni ir a Jerusalén. 22 Ustedes no saben a quién adoran; pero nosotros sabemos a quién adoramos, pues la salvación viene de los judíos. 23 Pero llega la hora, y es ahora mismo, cuando los que de veras adoran al Padre lo harán de un modo verdadero, conforme al Espíritu de Dios. Pues el Padre quiere que así lo hagan los que lo adoran. 24 Dios es Espíritu, y los que lo adoran deben hacerlo de un modo verdadero, conforme al Espíritu de Dios.
25 La mujer le dijo:
—Yo sé que va a venir el Mesías (es decir, el Cristo); y cuando él venga, nos lo explicará todo.
26 Jesús le dijo:
—Ése soy yo, el mismo que habla contigo.
27 En esto llegaron sus discípulos, y se quedaron extrañados de que Jesús estuviera hablando con una mujer. Pero ninguno se atrevió a preguntarle qué quería, o de qué estaba conversando con ella. 28 La mujer dejó su cántaro y se fue al pueblo, donde dijo a la gente:
29 —Vengan a ver a un hombre que me ha dicho todo lo que he hecho. ¿No será éste el Mesías?
30 Entonces salieron del pueblo y fueron a donde estaba Jesús. 31 Mientras tanto, los discípulos le rogaban:
—Maestro, come algo.
32 Pero él les dijo:
—Yo tengo una comida, que ustedes no conocen.
33 Los discípulos comenzaron a preguntarse unos a otros:
—¿Será que le habrán traído algo de comer?
34 Pero Jesús les dijo:
—Mi comida es hacer la voluntad del que me envió y terminar su trabajo. 35 Ustedes dicen: “Todavía faltan cuatro meses para la cosecha”; pero yo les digo que se fijen en los sembrados, pues ya están maduros para la cosecha. 36 El que trabaja en la cosecha recibe su paga, y la cosecha que recoge es para vida eterna, para que tanto el que siembra como el que cosecha se alegren juntamente. 37 Pues bien dice el dicho, que “Unos siembran y otros cosechan.” 38 Y yo los envié a ustedes a cosechar lo que no les costó ningún trabajo; otros fueron los que trabajaron, y ustedes son los que se han beneficiado del trabajo de ellos.
39 Muchos de los habitantes de aquel pueblo de Samaria creyeron en Jesús por lo que les había asegurado la mujer: «Me ha dicho todo lo que he hecho.» 40 Así que, cuando los samaritanos llegaron, rogaron a Jesús que se quedara con ellos. Él se quedó allí dos días, 41 y muchos más creyeron al oír lo que él mismo decía. 42 Y dijeron a la mujer: «Ahora creemos, no solamente por lo que tú nos dijiste, sino también porque nosotros mismos le hemos oído y sabemos que de veras es el Salvador del mundo.»
Jesús sana al hijo de un oficial del rey(A)
43 Pasados esos dos días, Jesús salió de Samaria y siguió su viaje a Galilea. 44 Porque, como él mismo dijo, a un profeta no lo honran en su propia tierra. 45 Cuando llegó a Galilea, los de aquella región lo recibieron bien, porque también habían ido a la fiesta de la Pascua a Jerusalén y habían visto todo lo que él hizo entonces.
46 Jesús regresó a Caná de Galilea, donde había convertido el agua en vino. Y había un alto oficial del rey, que tenía un hijo enfermo en Cafarnaúm. 47 Cuando el oficial supo que Jesús había llegado de Judea a Galilea, fue a verlo y le rogó que fuera a su casa y sanara a su hijo, que estaba a punto de morir. 48 Jesús le contestó:
—Ustedes no creen, si no ven señales y milagros.
49 Pero el oficial le dijo:
—Señor, ven pronto, antes que mi hijo se muera.
50 Jesús le dijo entonces:
—Vuelve a casa; tu hijo vive.
El hombre creyó lo que Jesús le dijo, y se fue. 51 Mientras regresaba a su casa, sus criados salieron a su encuentro y le dijeron:
—¡Su hijo vive!
52 Él les preguntó a qué hora había comenzado a sentirse mejor su hijo, y le contestaron:
—Ayer a la una de la tarde se le quitó la fiebre.
53 El padre cayó entonces en la cuenta de que era la misma hora en que Jesús le dijo: «Tu hijo vive»; y él y toda su familia creyeron en Jesús.
54 Ésta fue la segunda señal milagrosa que hizo Jesús, cuando volvió de Judea a Galilea.
John 4
Christian Standard Bible
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 When Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees(A) had heard he was making(B) and baptizing more disciples than John(C) 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea(D) and went again to Galilee.(E) 4 He had to travel through Samaria;(F) 5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[b] that Jacob(G) had given his son Joseph.(H) 6 Jacob’s well(I) was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[c]
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.(J)
“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8 because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 “How is it that you, a Jew,(K) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan(L) woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with[d] Samaritans.[e]
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God,(M) and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”(N)
11 “Sir,”(O) said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,(P) are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”
13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.(Q) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well[f](R) of water springing up in him for eternal life.”(S)
15 “Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
16 “Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.”
17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said. 18 “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,(T) but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”(U)
21 Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.(V) 23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,(W) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[g] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit,(X) and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”(Y)
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah(Z) is coming” (who is called Christ(AA)). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus told her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”(AB)
The Ripened Harvest
27 Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” (AC) 30 They left the town and made their way to him.(AD)
31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi,(AE) eat something.”
32 But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34 “My food is to do the will of him(AF) who sent me(AG) and to finish his work,”(AH) Jesus told them. 35 “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open[h] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[i] for harvest. 36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’(AJ) 38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from[j] their labor.”
The Savior of the World
39 Now many Samaritans(AK) from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[k] when she testified,(AL) “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him,(AM) they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of what he said.[l] 42 And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior(AN) of the world.”[m]
A Galilean Welcome
43 After two days he left there for Galilee.(AO) 44 (Jesus himself had testified(AP) that a prophet has no honor in his own country.(AQ)) 45 When(AR) they entered Galilee, the Galileans(AS) welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem(AT) during the festival.(AU) For they also had gone to the festival.
The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son
46 He went again to Cana(AV) of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.(AW) 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea(AX) into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,(AY) you will not believe.”(AZ)
49 “Sir,”(BA) the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what[n] Jesus said to him and departed.
51 While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. 52 He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon[o] the fever left him,” they answered. 53 The father(BB) realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54 Now this was also the second sign(BC) Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.(BD)
Footnotes
- 4:1 Other mss read the Lord
- 4:5 Lit piece of land
- 4:6 Lit about the sixth hour
- 4:9 Or do not share vessels with
- 4:9 Other mss omit For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
- 4:14 Or spring
- 4:23 Or in spirit and truth, also in v. 24
- 4:35 Lit Raise
- 4:35 Lit white
- 4:38 Lit you have entered into
- 4:39 Lit because of the woman’s word
- 4:41 Lit because of his word
- 4:42 Other mss add , the Messiah
- 4:50 Lit the word
- 4:52 Lit at the seventh hour
John 4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John”(A) 2 (although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized), 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4 But he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(B) 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[b](C) 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.”(D) 11 The woman said to him, “Sir,[c] you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”(E) 15 The woman said to him, “Sir,[d] give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”(F)
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 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 have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir,[e] I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you[f] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”(G) 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you[g] will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(H) 22 You[h] worship what you[i] do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.(I) 23 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.(J) 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”(K) 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”(L) 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he,[j] the one who is speaking to you.”(M)
27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,[k] can he?”(N) 30 They left the city and were on their way to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 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, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.(O) 35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.(P) 36 The reaper is already receiving[l] wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.(Q) 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’(R) 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.”(S) 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 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, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”(T)
Jesus Returns to Galilee
43 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee(U) 44 (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country).(V) 45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they, too, had gone to the festival.(W)
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
46 Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum.(X) 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.(Y) 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you[m] see signs and wonders you will not believe.”(Z) 49 The official said to him, “Sir,[n] come down before my little boy dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”[o] The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51 As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” 53 The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”[p] So he himself believed, along with his whole household.(AA) 54 Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.(AB)
Footnotes
- 4.1 Other ancient authorities read the Lord
- 4.9 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence
- 4.11 Or Lord
- 4.15 Or Lord
- 4.19 Or Lord
- 4.20 The Greek word for you is plural
- 4.21 The Greek word for you is plural
- 4.22 The Greek word for you is plural
- 4.22 The Greek word for you is plural
- 4.26 Gk I am
- 4.29 Or the Christ
- 4.36 Or
. . . the fields are already ripe for harvesting. The reaper is receiving - 4.48 Both instances of the Greek word for you in 4.48 are plural
- 4.49 Or Lord
- 4.50 Gk son lives
- 4.53 Gk son lives
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