< John 4 >
1 as/when therefore/then to know the/this/who (Jesus *N(K)O*) that/since: that to hear the/this/who Pharisee that/since: that Jesus greater disciple to do/make: do and to baptize or John
Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 and certainly indeed Jesus it/s/he no to baptize but the/this/who disciple it/s/he
(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),
3 to release: leave the/this/who Judea and to go away again toward the/this/who Galilee
he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.
4 be necessary then it/s/he to pass through through/because of the/this/who Samaria
He had to pass through Samaria,
5 to come/go therefore/then toward city the/this/who Samaria to say: call Sychar near/neighbor the/this/who place which to give Jacob (the/this/who *no*) Joseph the/this/who son it/s/he
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 to be then there flow the/this/who Jacob the/this/who therefore/then Jesus to labor out from the/this/who journey to sit down thus(-ly) upon/to/against the/this/who flow hour to be (as/when *N(k)O*) sixth
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 to come/go woman out from the/this/who Samaria to draw water to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus to give me to drink
A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her – ‘Give me some to drink,’
8 the/this/who for disciple it/s/he to go away toward the/this/who city in order that/to food to buy
For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
9 to say therefore/then it/s/he the/this/who woman the/this/who Samaria how! you Jew to be from/with/beside I/we to drink to ask woman Samaria to be no for to associate with Jew Samaritan
‘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 to answer Jesus and to say it/s/he if to perceive: know the/this/who free gift the/this/who God and which? to be the/this/who to say you to give me to drink you if to ask it/s/he and to give if you water to live
‘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 to say it/s/he the/this/who woman lord: master neither bucket to have/be and the/this/who well/abyss to be deep whence therefore/then to have/be the/this/who water the/this/who to live
‘You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,’ she said. ‘Where did you get that “living water?”
12 not you great to be the/this/who father me Jacob which to give me the/this/who well/abyss and it/s/he out from it/s/he to drink and the/this/who son it/s/he and the/this/who livestock it/s/he
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 to answer (the/this/who *k*) Jesus and to say it/s/he all the/this/who to drink out from the/this/who water this/he/she/it to thirst again
‘All who drink of this water,’ replied Jesus, ‘will be thirsty again;
14 which then if to drink out from the/this/who water which I/we to give it/s/he no not (to thirst *N(k)O*) toward the/this/who an age: eternity but the/this/who water which to give it/s/he to be in/on/among it/s/he flow water to spring toward life eternal (aiōn , aiōnios )
but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him will become a spring welling up within him – a source of eternal life.’ (aiōn , aiōnios )
15 to say to/with it/s/he the/this/who woman lord: master to give me this/he/she/it the/this/who water in order that/to not to thirst nor (to pass through *N(k)(o)*) in/to this place 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 to say it/s/he (the/this/who *ko*) (Jesus *KO*) to go to call the/this/who man: husband you and to come/go in/to this place
‘Go and call your husband,’ said Jesus, ‘and then come back.’
17 to answer the/this/who woman and to say (it/s/he *no*) no to have/be man: husband to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus well to say that/since: that man: husband no to have/be
‘I have no husband,’ answered the woman. ‘You are right in saying “I have no husband,”’ replied Jesus,
18 five for man: husband to have/be and now which to have/be no to be you man: husband this/he/she/it true to say
‘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 to say it/s/he the/this/who woman lord: master to see/experience that/since: that prophet to be you
‘I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!’ exclaimed the woman.
20 the/this/who father me in/on/among the/this/who mountain this/he/she/it to worship and you to say that/since: that in/on/among Jerusalem to be the/this/who place where(-ever) to worship be necessary
‘It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.’
21 to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus (to trust (in) *N(k)O*) me woman that/since: that to come/go hour when neither in/on/among the/this/who mountain this/he/she/it neither in/on/among Jerusalem to worship the/this/who 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 to worship which no to know me to worship which to know that/since: since the/this/who salvation out from the/this/who Jew to be
You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23 but to come/go hour and now to be when the/this/who true worshiper to worship the/this/who father in/on/among spirit/breath: spirit and truth and for the/this/who father such as this to seek the/this/who to worship it/s/he
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 spirit/breath: spirit the/this/who God and the/this/who to worship it/s/he in/on/among spirit/breath: spirit and truth be necessary to worship
God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.’
25 to say it/s/he the/this/who woman to know that/since: that Messiah to come/go the/this/who to say Christ when(-ever) to come/go that to report me (all *N(k)O*)
‘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 to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus I/we to be the/this/who to speak you
‘I am he,’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who am speaking to you.’
27 and upon/to/against this/he/she/it to come/go the/this/who disciple it/s/he and (to marvel *N(k)O*) that/since: that with/after woman to speak none yet to say which? to seek or which? to speak with/after it/s/he
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 to release: leave therefore/then the/this/who jar it/s/he the/this/who woman and to go away toward the/this/who city and to say the/this/who a human
So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29 come to perceive: see a human which to say me all (just as/how much *NK(o)*) to do/make: do surely not this/he/she/it to be the/this/who Christ
‘Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?’
30 to go out (therefore/then *K*) out from the/this/who city and to come/go to/with it/s/he
And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31 in/on/among (then *k*) the/this/who between/meanwhile to ask it/s/he the/this/who disciple to say Rabbi to eat
Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, ‘Take something to eat, Rabbi.’
32 the/this/who then to say it/s/he I/we eating to have/be to eat which you no to know
‘I have food to eat,’ he answered, ‘of which you know nothing.’
33 to say therefore/then the/this/who disciple to/with one another not one to bear/lead it/s/he to eat
‘Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?’ the disciples said to one another.
34 to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus I/we food to be in order that/to (to do/make: do *N(k)O*) the/this/who will/desire the/this/who to send me and to perfect it/s/he the/this/who work
‘My food,’ replied Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
35 no you to say that/since: that still (four months *N(k)O*) to be and the/this/who harvest to come/go look! to say you to lift up the/this/who eye you and to look at the/this/who country that/since: that white to be to/with 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 *k*) the/this/who to reap wage to take and to assemble fruit toward life eternal in order that/to (and *k*) the/this/who to sow together to rejoice and the/this/who to reap (aiōnios )
Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together. (aiōnios )
37 in/on/among for this/he/she/it the/this/who word to be (the/this/who *k*) true that/since: that another to be the/this/who to sow and another the/this/who to reap
For here the proverb holds good – “One sows, another reaps.”
38 I/we to send you to reap which no you to labor another to labor and you toward the/this/who labor it/s/he to enter
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 out from then the/this/who city that much to trust (in) toward it/s/he the/this/who Samaritan through/because of the/this/who word the/this/who woman to testify that/since: that to say me all (which *N(k)O*) to do/make: do
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 as/when therefore/then to come/go to/with it/s/he the/this/who Samaritan to ask it/s/he to stay from/with/beside it/s/he and to stay there two day
And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
41 and much much to trust (in) through/because of the/this/who word it/s/he
But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
42 the/this/who and/both woman to say that/since: that no still through/because of the/this/who you speech to trust (in) it/s/he for to hear and to know that/since: that this/he/she/it to be truly the/this/who savior the/this/who world (the/this/who Christ *K*)
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 with/after then the/this/who two day to go out from there (and to go away *K*) toward the/this/who Galilee
After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
44 it/s/he for (the/this/who *k*) Jesus to testify that/since: that prophet in/on/among the/this/who one's own/private fatherland honor no to have/be
for he himself declared that “a prophet is not honoured in his own country.”
45 when therefore/then to come/go toward the/this/who Galilee to receive it/s/he the/this/who Galilean all to see: see (just as/how much *N(k)O*) to do/make: do in/on/among Jerusalem in/on/among the/this/who festival and it/s/he for to come/go toward the/this/who festival
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 to come/go therefore/then (the/this/who Jesus *k*) again toward the/this/who Cana the/this/who Galilee where(-ever) to do/make: do the/this/who water wine and to be one royal which the/this/who son be weak: ill in/on/among 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 this/he/she/it to hear that/since: that Jesus to come/be present out from the/this/who Judea toward the/this/who Galilee to go away to/with it/s/he and to ask (it/s/he *k*) in order that/to to come/go down and to heal it/s/he the/this/who son to ensue for 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 to say therefore/then the/this/who Jesus to/with it/s/he if not sign and wonders to perceive: see no not to trust (in)
Jesus answered, ‘Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.’
49 to say to/with it/s/he the/this/who royal lord: master to come/go down before to die the/this/who child me
‘Sir,’ said the officer, ‘come down before my child dies.’ And Jesus answered, ‘Go, your son is living.’
50 to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus to travel the/this/who son you to live (and *k*) to trust (in) the/this/who a human the/this/who word (which *N(k)O*) to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus and to travel
The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;
51 already then it/s/he to come/go down the/this/who slave it/s/he (to go meet *N(k)O*) it/s/he (and to announce *ko*) to say that/since: that the/this/who child (it/s/he *N(K)O*) to live
and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.
52 to inquire therefore/then the/this/who hour from/with/beside it/s/he in/on/among which better to have/be (and *k*) to say (therefore/then *NO*) it/s/he that/since: that yesterday hour seventh to release: leave it/s/he the/this/who fever
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 to know therefore/then the/this/who father that/since: that in/on/among that the/this/who hour in/on/among which to say it/s/he the/this/who Jesus (that/since: that *k*) the/this/who son you to live and to trust (in) it/s/he and the/this/who home: household it/s/he all
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/he/she/it (then *no*) again secondly sign to do/make: do the/this/who Jesus to come/go out from the/this/who Judea toward the/this/who Galilee
This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.