John 4
1 When therefore the LORD knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and immerses more disciples than John,
Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptising more disciples than John
2 (though indeed Jesus Himself was not immersing, but His disciples),
(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptised),
3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
4 and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria.
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;
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 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, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about midday.
7 there comes a woman out of 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 were gone away into the city that they may buy food;
For his disciples had gone into the town 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,’ 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 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 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, “Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You the living water?
‘You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,’ she said. ‘Where did you get 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 ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle!’
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who is drinking of this water will thirst again;
‘All who drink of this water,’ replied Jesus, ‘will be thirsty again;
15 The woman says to Him, “Lord, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here 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 Jesus says to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here”;
‘Go and call your husband,’ said Jesus, ‘and then come back.’
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,”’ replied Jesus,
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 with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.’
19 The woman says to Him, “Lord, I perceive that You are 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 is required 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, “Woman, believe Me, that there comes an hour when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father;
‘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 what you have not known; we worship what we have known, 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 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 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] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should worship in spirit and truth.”
God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.’
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,’ 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 am speaking to you am [He].”
‘I am he,’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who am speaking to you.’
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?”
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 The woman then left her water-jug 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, see a Man who told me all things—as many as I did; is this the Christ?”
‘Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?’
30 They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming to Him.
And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31 And in the meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”;
Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, ‘Take something to eat, Rabbi.’
32 and He said to them, “I have food to eat that you have not known.”
‘I have food to eat,’ he answered, ‘of which you know nothing.’
33 The disciples then said to one another, “Did anyone bring Him anything 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 who sent Me, and may finish His work;
‘My food,’ replied Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete 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.
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 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)
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 saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
For here the proverb holds good – “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 have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labour; others have laboured, and you have reaped the results of their labour.’
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 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 When, then, the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to remain with them, 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 because of His word,
But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
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.”
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 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 on to Galilee;
44 for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet will not have honor in his own country;
for he himself declared that “a prophet is not honoured 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 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 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 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 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 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 Jesus then said to him, “If you may not see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
Jesus answered, ‘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 officer, ‘come down before my child dies.’ And Jesus answered, ‘Go, your son is living.’
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,
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
51 and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying, “Your child lives”;
and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child 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 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] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and his whole house;
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 this again [was] a second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea to Galilee.
This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.
