John 4
1 Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"
When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John,
2 (though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),
(though not Jesus himself, but his disciples immersed, )
3 he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
he left Judea, and went again into Galilee.
4 Now he had to pass through Samaria;
And it was necessary that he should go through Samaria.
5 so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.
And Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me to drink.
8 Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)
For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.
9 "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.)
Then the woman of Samaria said to him: How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? (For the Jews have no social intercourse with the Samaritans.)
10 "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."
Jesus answered and said to her: If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.
11 "Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?
The woman said to him: Sir, you have no vessel with which you can draw, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?
12 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?"
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
13 "All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;
Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks of this water, will thirst again;
15 "Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."
The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."
Jesus said to her: Go, call your husband, and come hither.
17 "I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’"Jesus said to her,
The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You have well said. I have no husband;
18 "for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."
for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.
19 "I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.
The woman said to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 "Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where we ought to worship.
21 "Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
22 You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
You worship you know not what; we know what we worship; for salvation is of the Jews.
23 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.
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeks such to worship him.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
God is spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 "I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."
The woman said to him: I know that Messiah (who is called Christ) is coming; when he comes, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."
Jesus said to her: I who speak to you am he.
27 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?"
And upon this his disciples came, and were astonished that he was talking with the woman. Yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
28 Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.
Then the woman left her water-pot, and went into the city, and said to the men:
29 "Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can’t be the Christ, can he?"
Come, see a man who has told me all things that I ever did. Is not this the Christ?
30 They left the city and set out to go to him.
Then they went out of the city and came to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.
In the mean time, the disciples besought him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32 "Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."
But he said to them: I have food to eat of which you know not.
33 So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"
Then the disciples said one to another: Has any one brought him food?
34 Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Jesus said to them: My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 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.
Do you not say, There are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are already white for the harvest.
36 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)
And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal; that he that sows, and he that reaps, may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 For in this respect the saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
For in this is the saying true, One sows and another reaps.
38 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."
I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.
39 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."
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all things that I ever did.
40 So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.
When, therefore, the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to abide with them. And he abode there two days.
41 Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.
And many more believed because of his own word;
42 "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."
and they said to the woman: We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is in truth the Savior of the world, the Christ.
43 After these two days Jesus went away from there into Galilee.
And after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee;
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
for Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 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.
Therefore, when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all things that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
46 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.
Then Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier, whose sou was sick in Capernaum.
47 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.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and restore his son to health, for he was about to die.
48 Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
Then said Jesus to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
49 "Sir," said the king’s officer, "come down before my little boy dies."
The courtier said to him: Sir, come down before my child die.
50 Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.
Jesus said to him: Go, your child lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke, and departed.
51 And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.
And as he was going down, his servants met him, and said: Your son lives.
52 So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o’clock, the fever left him."
Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was restored to health. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
53 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.
Then his father knew that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and all his house, believed.
54 This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.
This is the second sign which Jesus did, when he came out of Judea into Galilee.
