Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 4)

^4:1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and immersing* more disciples than John^4:2 (although Jesus himself did not immersed*, but his disciples),^4:3 he left Judea and departed again into Galilee.^4:4 And he must pass through Samaria.^4:5 So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:^4:6 and Jacob's _<2>well was there. Jesus therefore, being fatigued with his journey, sat thus by the _<2>well. It was about the sixth hour.^4:7 A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me water to drink.^4:8 For* his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

^4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, who is a Samaritan woman? (For* Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

^4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, Give me water to drink; you would have asked of him and he would have given you living water.

^4:11 The woman says to him, Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep: then from where do you have living water?^4:12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle, are you?

^4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again:^4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a _<2>well of water leaping up to eternal life.

^4:15 The woman says to him, Lord, give me this water, that I do not thirst, nor come all the way here to draw.

^4:16 Jesus says to her, Go, call your husband and come here.

^4:17 The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband.

Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband:^4:18 for* you have had five husbands; and he whom you have now is not your husband: you have said this truly.

^4:19 The woman says to him, Lord, I perceive that you are a prophet.^4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you* say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

^4:21 Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, you*will worship the Father.^4:22 You* worship what you* do not know: we worship what we know; because salvation is from the Jews.^4:23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshiper will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such does the Father seek who worship him.^4:24 God is a Spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

^4:25 The woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ): when he has come, he will declare to us all things.

^4:26 Jesus says to her, I who speak to you am he.

^4:27 And his disciples came upon this; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What are you seeking? Or, Why do you speak with her?

^4:28 So the woman left her water pot and went away into the city and says to the people,^4:29 Come, see a man, who told me all the things that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?^4:30 They went out of the city and were coming to him.

^4:31 In the time between the disciples were asking him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

^4:32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you* do not know.

^4:33 The disciples therefore said to one another, Has anyone brought him anything to eat?

^4:34 Jesus says to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.^4:35 Do you not say, There are yet four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you*, Lift up your* eyes and look on the fields, because they are white, already to harvest.^4:36 And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to life eternal; that he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together.^4:37 For* in this is the saying true, One is sowing and another is reaping.^4:38 I sent you* to reap that on which you* have not labored: others have labored and you* are entered into their labor.

^4:39 And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things whatever I have done.^4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they requested him to abide with them and he abode there two days.^4:41 And many more believed because of his word;^4:42 and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your speaking: for* we have heard for ourselves and know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.

^4:43 And after the two days he went forth from there into Galilee.^4:44 For* Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.^4:45 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 had gone to the feast.

^4:46 He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick in Capernaum.^4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him that he would come down and heal his son; for* he was about to die.^4:48 Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you* see signs and wonders, you* will by no means believe.

^4:49 The nobleman says to him, Lord, come down here before my child dies.

^4:50 Jesus says to him, Go your way; your son lives.

The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and he went his way.^4:51 And as he was already going down, his bondservants met him, saying, that his child lived.^4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he had become better. They said therefore to him, Yesterday the fever left him in the seventh hour.^4:53 So the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives and himself believed and his whole house.^4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

<2> 4:6, 14 This word is also translated as "spring". Cf. Rev. 7.17.