John 4
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John 4
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
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Jn 3.22, 26 Now when Jesus#4.1 Other ancient authorities read the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” 2(although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized), 3he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4But he had to go through Samaria. 5#Gen 33.19; 48.22; Josh 24.32So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9#Mt 10.5; Lk 9.52, 53; Jn 8.48The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)#4.9 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence 10#Isa 44.3; Jn 7.37; Rev 21.6; 22.17Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.11 Or Lord you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14#Jn 6.35; 7.38but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15#Jn 6.34The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.15 Or Lord give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.19 Or Lord I see that you are a prophet. 20#Deut 11.29; Josh 8.33; Lk 9.53Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you#4.20 The Greek word for you is plural say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21#Mal 1.11; 1 Tim 2.8Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you#4.21 The Greek word for you is plural will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22#2 Kings 17.28–41; Isa 2.3; Rom 3.1, 2You#4.22 The Greek word for you is plural worship what you#4.22 The Greek word for you is plural do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23#Jn 5.25; Phil 3.3But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24#Phil 3.3God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25#Mt 1.16; Jn 1.41The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26#Mt 26.63, 64; Mk 14.61, 62; Jn 8.24Jesus said to her, “I am he,#4.26 Gk I am the one who is speaking to you.”
27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29#vv 17, 18; Jn 7.26, 31“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,#4.29 Or the Christ can he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34#Jn 5.30; 6.38; 17.4; 19.30Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35#Mt 9.37; Lk 10.2Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36#v 14; Rom 1.13The reaper is already receiving#4.36 Or 35…the fields are already ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37#Job 31.8; Mic 6.15For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42#1 Tim 4.10; 2 Tim 1.10; 1 Jn 4.14They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Returns to Galilee
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v 40
When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44#Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). 45#Jn 2.23When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they, too, had gone to the festival.
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
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Jn 2.1–11
Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. 47#vv 3, 54When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48#Dan 4.2; Mk 13.22; Acts 2.19, 22, 43; 4.30; Rom 15.19; Heb 2.4Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you#4.48 Both instances of the Greek word for you in 4.48 are plural see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49The official said to him, “Sir,#4.49 Or Lord come down before my little boy dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”#4.50 Gk son lives The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” 53#Acts 11.14The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”#4.53 Gk son lives So he himself believed, along with his whole household. 54#Jn 2.11Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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John 4
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John 4
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
1 #
Jn 3.22, 26 Now when Jesus#4.1 Other ancient authorities read the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” 2(although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized), 3he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4But he had to go through Samaria. 5#Gen 33.19; 48.22; Josh 24.32So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9#Mt 10.5; Lk 9.52, 53; Jn 8.48The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)#4.9 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence 10#Isa 44.3; Jn 7.37; Rev 21.6; 22.17Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.11 Or Lord you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14#Jn 6.35; 7.38but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15#Jn 6.34The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.15 Or Lord give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19The woman said to him, “Sir,#4.19 Or Lord I see that you are a prophet. 20#Deut 11.29; Josh 8.33; Lk 9.53Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you#4.20 The Greek word for you is plural say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21#Mal 1.11; 1 Tim 2.8Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you#4.21 The Greek word for you is plural will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22#2 Kings 17.28–41; Isa 2.3; Rom 3.1, 2You#4.22 The Greek word for you is plural worship what you#4.22 The Greek word for you is plural do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23#Jn 5.25; Phil 3.3But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24#Phil 3.3God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25#Mt 1.16; Jn 1.41The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26#Mt 26.63, 64; Mk 14.61, 62; Jn 8.24Jesus said to her, “I am he,#4.26 Gk I am the one who is speaking to you.”
27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29#vv 17, 18; Jn 7.26, 31“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,#4.29 Or the Christ can he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34#Jn 5.30; 6.38; 17.4; 19.30Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35#Mt 9.37; Lk 10.2Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36#v 14; Rom 1.13The reaper is already receiving#4.36 Or 35…the fields are already ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37#Job 31.8; Mic 6.15For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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v 29
Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42#1 Tim 4.10; 2 Tim 1.10; 1 Jn 4.14They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Returns to Galilee
43 #
v 40
When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44#Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). 45#Jn 2.23When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they, too, had gone to the festival.
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
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Jn 2.1–11
Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. 47#vv 3, 54When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48#Dan 4.2; Mk 13.22; Acts 2.19, 22, 43; 4.30; Rom 15.19; Heb 2.4Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you#4.48 Both instances of the Greek word for you in 4.48 are plural see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49The official said to him, “Sir,#4.49 Or Lord come down before my little boy dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”#4.50 Gk son lives The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” 53#Acts 11.14The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”#4.53 Gk son lives So he himself believed, along with his whole household. 54#Jn 2.11Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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