John 4
1 When therefore the LORD knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and immerses more disciples than John,
Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"
2 (though indeed Jesus Himself was not immersing, but His disciples),
(though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),
3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4 and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria.
Now he had to pass through Samaria;
5 He comes, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was thus sitting on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;
Jacob’s Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.
7 there comes a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me to drink”;
It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.
8 for His disciples were gone away into the city that they may buy food;
Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)
9 the Samaritan woman therefore says to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.
"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."
11 The woman says to Him, “Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You the living water?
"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank out of it, and his sons, and his livestock?”
Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who is drinking of this water will thirst again;
"All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;
15 The woman says to Him, “Lord, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."
16 Jesus says to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here”;
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."
17 the woman answered and said, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “Well did you say—I do not have a husband;
"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’"Jesus said to her,
18 for you have had five husbands, and now, he whom you have is not your husband; you have said this correctly.”
"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."
19 The woman says to Him, “Lord, I perceive that You are a prophet;
"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.
20 our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and You say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is required to worship.”
"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."
21 Jesus says to her, “Woman, believe Me, that there comes an hour when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father;
"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22 you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because salvation is of the Jews;
You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 but there comes an hour, and it now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him;
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.
24 God [is] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should worship in spirit and truth.”
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
25 The woman says to Him, “I have known that Messiah comes, who is called Christ, when that One may come, He will tell us all things”;
"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."
26 Jesus says to her, “I who am speaking to you am [He].”
Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."
27 And on this came His disciples, and were wondering that He was speaking with a woman, no one, however, said, “What do You seek?” Or “Why do You speak with her?”
Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
28 The woman then left her water-jug and went away into the city, and says to the men,
Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.
29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things—as many as I did; is this the Christ?”
"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can’t be the Christ, can he?"
30 They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming to Him.
They left the city and set out to go to him.
31 And in the meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”;
Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.
32 and He said to them, “I have food to eat that you have not known.”
"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."
33 The disciples then said to one another, “Did anyone bring Him anything to eat?”
So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"
34 Jesus says to them, “My food is that I may do the will of Him who sent Me, and may finish His work;
Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest comes; behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white to harvest already.
Do you not say, ‘It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
36 And he who is reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit to continuous life, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; (aiōnios g166)
The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
For in this respect the saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap on that which you have not labored; others labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."
39 And many from that city believed in Him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, “He told me all things—as many as I did.”
Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."
40 When, then, the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to remain with them, and He remained there two days;
So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.
41 and many more believed because of His word,
Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.
42 and said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your speaking; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Savior of the world—the Christ.”
"We no longer believe because of what you said. for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."
43 And after the two days He went forth from there, and went away to Galilee,
After these two days Jesus went away from there into Galilee.
44 for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet will not have honor in his own country;
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 when then, He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all things that He did in Jerusalem in the celebration—for they also went to the celebration.
When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.
46 Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine, and there was a certain attendant, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,
So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king’s officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
47 he, having heard that Jesus comes out of Judea to Galilee, went away to Him, and was asking Him that He may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.
48 Jesus then said to him, “If you may not see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
49 The attendant says to Him, “Lord, come down before my child dies”;
"Sir," said the king’s officer, "come down before my little boy dies."
50 Jesus says to him, “Be going on; your son lives.” And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,
Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.
51 and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying, “Your child lives”;
And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.
52 he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him”;
So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o’clock, the fever left him."
53 then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and his whole house;
Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.
54 this again [was] a second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea to Galilee.
This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.
