John 4
1 Thus when the Lord knew when the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John
Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (truly Jesus himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),
(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),
3 He left Judea and came again into Galilee.
he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
4 And it behooved Him to go through Samaria.
He had to pass through Samaria,
5 Then He comes into a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
and, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 And the well of Jacob was there. Then Jesus having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus by the well: it was about the sixth hour.
Jacob’s Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about midday.
7 A woman comes from Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her – “Give me some to drink,”
8 For His disciples had gone into the city, that they might purchase food.
For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
9 A Samaritan woman says to Him, How do you, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?
“How is it,” replied the Samaritan woman, “that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
10 And Jesus responded and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and the one who is speaking to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
“If you knew of the gift of God,” replied Jesus, “and who it is that is saying to you ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 The woman says to Him, Sir, thou hast no windlass, and the well is deep: whence hast thou living water?
“You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,” she said. “Where did you get that ‘living water?’
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself and his sons, and his herds, drank of it?
Surely you are not greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle!”
13 Jesus responded and said to her, Every one drinking of this water shall thirst again:
“All who drink of this water,” replied Jesus, “will be thirsty again;
15 Then the woman says to Him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
“Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman, “so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water.”
16 He says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
“Go and call your husband,” said Jesus, “and then come back.”
17 The woman responded and said, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Well didst thou say, I have no husband:
“I have no husband,” answered the woman. “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’” replied Jesus,
18 for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: thou hast spoken this truly.
“For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.”
19 The woman says to Him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
“I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where it behooveth to worship.
“It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus says to her, Believe me, woman, that the hour cometh, you will worship the Father neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
“Believe me,” replied Jesus, “a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.
22 You worship, you know not what: we worship that which we know: because salvation is of the Jews.
You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such worshiping Him.
But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshipers that the Father desires.
24 God is a Spirit, and it behooveth those who worship Him to worship in spirit and in truth.
God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”
25 The woman says to Him, I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ): when He may come, He will proclaim to us all things.
“I know,” answered the woman, “that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything.”
26 Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am He.
“I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”
27 And at this time His disciples came, and were wondering because He was speaking with the woman; no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why do you speak with her?
At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’
28 Then the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and says to the men,
So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29 Come hither, see the man who told me all things which I did: Is not He the Christ?
“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”
30 They came out from the city, and came to Him.
And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31 Meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, Master eat.
Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”
32 He said to them, I have meat to eat, which you know not.
“I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”
33 Then His disciples were speaking to one another, Whether has any one brought Him something to eat?
“Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.
34 Jesus says to them, My food is that I may do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work.
“My food,” replied Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
35 Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest
Don’t you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!
36 already. He that reapeth receiveth reward, and gathereth fruit unto eternal life; in order that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 For in this the word is true, that there is one sowing, and another reaping.
For here the proverb holds good – ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38 I have sent you to reap that upon which you have never labored: others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have reaped the results of their labor.”
39 But many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him through the word of the woman, testifying that, He told me all things which I did. Then when the Samaritans came to Him they asked Him to abide with them:
Many from that town came to believe in Jesus – Samaritans though they were – because the woman had said, ‘He has told me everything that I have done.’
40 and He remained there two days:
And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
41 and many more believed on Him through His word;
But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
42 and they continued to say to the woman, We no longer believe through your talk; for we have heard and we know that He is truly the Savior of the world.
and they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world.”
43 And after two days He departed thence into Galilee.
After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
44 And Jesus Himself witnessed, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
for he himself declared that ‘a prophet is not honored in his own country.’
45 And when He came into Galilee, Galileans received Him, having seen all things which He did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also came to the feast.
When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.
46 Then He came again into Cana of Galilee, where He turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royalist, whose son was sick in Capernaum;
So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the king’s officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
47 he having heard that Jesus has come out of Judea into Galilee, came away to Him, and continued to ask Him that He may come down and heal his son; for He was about to die.
When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, Unless you may see signs and wonders, you can not believe.
Jesus answered, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49 The nobleman says to Him, Lord, come down before my little child dies.
“Sir,” said the officer, “come down before my child dies.” And Jesus answered, “Go, your son is living.”
50 Jesus says to him, Go; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and departed.
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
51 And he already coming down, the servants met him, and reported, that the child lives.
and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.
52 Then he inquired the hour at which he began to improve; and they said to him, The fever left him at the seventh hour yesterday.
So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. “It was yesterday, about one o’clock,” they said, “that the fever left him.”
53 Then the father knew that it was at that hour at which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth: and he and all his house believed.
By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him ‘Your son is living’; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.
54 Jesus, having again come out of Judea into Galilee, wrought this second miracle.
This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.
