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 heard that Jesus makes and immerses more disciples than John,
2 (Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),
(though indeed Jesus Himself was not immersing, but His disciples),
3 he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
4 He had to pass through Samaria,
and it was necessary [for] Him to go 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.
He comes, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to 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 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;
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her – “Give me some to drink,”
there comes a woman out of Samaria 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 were gone away into the city that they may 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 You, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealing 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 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.”
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, “Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You 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 You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank out of it, 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, “Everyone who is drinking 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, “Lord, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16 “Go and call your husband,” said Jesus, “and then come back.”
Jesus says to her, “Go, call your 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, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “Well did you say—I do not have a 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 you have had five husbands, and now, he whom you have is not your husband; you have said this correctly.”
19 “I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.
The woman says to Him, “Lord, I perceive that You 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 in this mountain, and You say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is required 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 there comes an hour when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father;
22 You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because salvation is of 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 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;
24 God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”
God [is] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should 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 have known that Messiah comes, who is called Christ, when that One may come, He will tell us all things”;
26 “I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”
Jesus says to her, “I who am speaking to you am [He].”
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 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?”
28 So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
The woman then left her water-jug and went away 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 things—as many as I did; is this the Christ?”
30 And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”
And in the meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”;
32 “I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”
and He said to them, “I have food to eat that you have not known.”
33 “Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.
The disciples then said to one another, “Did anyone bring Him anything 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 may 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 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.
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 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)
37 For here the proverb holds good – ‘One sows, another reaps.’
for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
38 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.”
I sent you to reap on that which you have not labored; others labored, and you 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 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.”
40 And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
When, then, the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking 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 Savior of the world.”
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.”
43 After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
And after the two days He went forth from there, and went away to Galilee,
44 for he himself declared that ‘a prophet is not honored in his own country.’
for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet will not have honor in his own country;
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.
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.
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 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,
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.
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.
48 Jesus answered, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
Jesus then said to him, “If you may not see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49 “Sir,” said the officer, “come down before my child dies.” And Jesus answered, “Go, your son is living.”
The attendant says to Him, “Lord, come down before my child dies”;
50 The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
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,
51 and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.
and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying, “Your child 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.”
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”;
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.
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;
54 This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.
this again [was] a second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea to Galilee.
