John 4
1 Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was 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 it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),
(although Jesus himself did not immerse, but his disciples),
3 he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
4 He had to pass through Samaria,
And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.
5 and, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 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.
And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied from the journey, thus was sitting on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her – ‘Give me some to drink,’
A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.
8 For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
For his disciples had gone away into the city so that they might buy food.
9 ‘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).
The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How do thou, being Jewish, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman, for Jews do not associate with Samaritans?
10 ‘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.’
Jesus answered and said to her, If thou had known the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, Give me to drink, thou would have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 ‘You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,’ she said. ‘Where did you get that “living water?”
The woman says to him, Sir, thou have not even a container, and the well is deep. From where then have thou the living water?
12 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!’
Are thou greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock?
13 ‘All who drink of this water,’ replied Jesus, ‘will be thirsty again;
Jesus answered and said to her, Every man who drinks of this water will thirst again,
15 ‘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.’
The woman says to him, Give me this water, sir, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw out.
16 ‘Go and call your husband,’ said Jesus, ‘and then come back.’
Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.
17 ‘I have no husband,’ answered the woman. ‘You are right in saying “I have no husband,”’ replied Jesus,
The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Thou said correctly, I have no husband.
18 ‘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.’
For thou have had five husbands, and he whom thou now have is not thy husband. This thou have said true.
19 ‘I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!’ exclaimed the woman.
The woman says to him, Sir, I perceive that thou are a prophet.
20 ‘It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.’
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.
21 ‘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.
Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, that the hour is coming when neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem will ye worship the Father.
22 You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
Ye worship what ye do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
23 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.
But an hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for also the Father seeks such kind who worship him.
24 God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.’
God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
25 ‘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.’
The woman says to him, I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When that man comes he will declare all things to us.
26 ‘I am he,’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who am speaking to you.’
Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am the man.
27 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?”
And upon this his disciples came. And they marveled that he spoke with the woman, yet no man said, What seek thou? or, Why do thou speak with her?
28 So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
The woman therefore left her water pot, and departed into the city, and says to the men,
29 ‘Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?’
Come, see a man who told me all, as many things as I did. Is not this the Christ?
30 And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
They went out of the city, and came to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, ‘Take something to eat, Rabbi.’
In the meanwhile the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
32 ‘I have food to eat,’ he answered, ‘of which you know nothing.’
But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not.
33 ‘Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?’ the disciples said to one another.
The disciples therefore said to each other, Did any man bring him to eat?
34 ‘My food,’ replied Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.
35 Don’t you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!
Do ye not say, There are still four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
36 Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
And he who reaps receives a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. (aiōnios g166)
37 For here the proverb holds good – “One sows, another reaps.”
For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.
38 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.’
I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
39 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.”
And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all, as many things as I did.
40 And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to remain with them, and he remained there two days.
41 But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
And many more believed because of his word.
42 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.’
And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of thy speaking, for we have heard ourselves, and know that this really is the Savior of the world, the Christ.
43 After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
And after the two days he departed from there and went into Galilee.
44 for he himself declared that “a prophet is not honoured in his own country.”
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.
45 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.
So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46 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.
Jesus therefore came again to Cana of Galilee where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 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.
This man having heard that Jesus comes out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was going to die.
48 Jesus answered, ‘Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.’
Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye may see signs and wonders, ye will, no, not believe.
49 ‘Sir,’ said the officer, ‘come down before my child dies.’ And Jesus answered, ‘Go, your son is living.’
The nobleman says to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.
50 The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and he departed.
51 and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.
And as he was now going down, his bondmen met him and reported, saying, Thy boy lives.
52 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.’
So he inquired of them the hour in which he fared well. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 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.
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives. And he himself believed and his whole house.
54 This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.
This again is a second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
