John 4

¹ As, then, the Lord knew that the Pharisees hear that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John ² (though, to be sure, Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), ³ He leaves Judea and came away again into Galilee. ⁴ Now He must pass through Samaria. ⁵ He is coming, then, to a city of Samaria, termed Sychar, nigh the freehold which Jacob gives his son Joseph. ⁶ Now there was a spring of Jacob's there. Jesus, then, weary with the journey, was seated thus at the spring. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ A certain woman of Samaria is coming to draw water. Jesus is saying to her, "Give Me a drink", ⁸ for His disciples had come away into the city that they should be buying nourishment. ⁹ The Samaritan woman, then, is saying to Him, "How are you, being a Jew, requesting a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews are not beholden to Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, "If you were aware of the gratuity of God, and Who it is Who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would request Him, and He would give you living water." ¹¹ The woman is saying to Him, "Lord, you have not even a bucket, and the well is deep. Whence, then, have you living water? ¹² Not greater are you than our father Jacob, who gives us the well, and he himself drank out of it, and his sons, and what was nourished by him?" ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who is drinking of this water will be thirsting again, ¹⁴ yet whoever may be drinking of the water which I shall be giving him, shall under no circumstances be thirsting for the eon, but the water which I shall be giving him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into life eonian." ¹⁵ The woman is saying to Him, "Lord, give me this water, that I may not be thirsting, nor yet coming to this place to draw." ¹⁶ Jesus is saying to her, "Go, summon your husband and come to this place." ¹⁷ The woman answered and said to Him, "No husband have I." ¹⁸ Jesus is saying to her, "Ideally said you that 'A husband I have not,' for five husbands have you had, and now he whom you have is not your husband. This you have declared truly." ¹⁹ The woman is saying to Him, "Lord, I behold that thou art a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worship in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship." ²¹ Jesus is saying to her, "Believe Me, woman, that, coming is an hour when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you be worshiping the Father. ²² You are worshiping that of which you are not aware; we are worshiping that of which we are aware, for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But coming is the hour, and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also is seeking such to be worshiping Him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who are worshiping Him must be worshiping in spirit and truth." ²⁵ The woman is saying to Him, "We are aware that Messiah is coming, Who is termed 'Christ', Whenever He should be coming, He will be informing us of all things." ²⁶ Jesus is saying to her, "I am He, Who am speaking to you." ²⁷ And, at this, His disciples came, and they marveled that He spoke with a woman. Howbeit, no one said to Him, "What art Thou seeking?" or "What art Thou speaking with her?" ²⁸ The woman, then, leaves her water pot, and came away into the city, and is saying to the men, ²⁹ "Hither! Perceive a Man Who told me all whatever I do. Is not this the Christ?" ³⁰ They, then, came out of the city and came to Him. ³¹ Now in the meantime the disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." ³² Yet He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you are not aware." ³³ The disciples, then, said to one another, "No one brings Him aught to eat." ³⁴ Jesus is saying to them, "My food is that I should be doing the will of Him Who sends Me, and should be perfecting His work. ³⁵ Are you not saying that, 'Still four months is it, and the harvest is coming'? Lo! I am saying to you, Lift up your eyes and gaze on the countrysides, for they are white for harvest already. ³⁶ And he who is reaping is getting wages and is gathering fruit for life eonian, that both the sower and the reaper likewise may be rejoicing. ³⁷ For in this case is the saying true, that 'One is the sower and another is the reaper.' ³⁸ I commission you to reap that for which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have entered into their toil." ³⁹ Now out of that city many of the Samaritans believe in Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that "He told me all whatever I do." ⁴⁰ As, then, the Samaritans came together to Him, they asked Him to remain with them. And He remains there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believe because of His word. ⁴² Besides, to the woman they said that "No longer because of your speaking are we believing, for we ourselves have heard Him, and we are aware that this truly is the Saviour of the world, the Christ." ⁴³ Now after the two days He came out thence and came away into Galilee, ⁴⁴ for Jesus Himself testifies that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵ When, then, He came into Galilee, the Galileans receive Him, having seen all whatever He does in Jerusalem in the festival, for they also came to the festival. ⁴⁶ Jesus came again, then, into Cana of Galilee, where He makes the water wine. And there was a certain courtier whose son was infirm in Capernaum. ⁴⁷ This man, hearing that Jesus is arriving in Galilee from Judea, came away to Him and asked Him that He may be descending and should be healing his son, for he was about to die. ⁴⁸ Jesus, then, said to him, "If you should not be perceiving signs and miracles, you should under no circumstances be believing." ⁴⁹ The courtier is saying to Him, "Lord, descend ere my little boy dies!" ⁵⁰ Jesus is saying to him, "Go. Your son is living." And the man believes the word which Jesus said to him, and went. ⁵¹ Now as he is already descending, his slaves meet him, and they report, saying that his boy is living. ⁵² He, then, ascertained from them the hour in which he was better. And they said, then, to him that "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever leaves him." ⁵³ The father knew, then, that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son is living." And he believes, he and his whole house. ⁵⁴ Now this, again, is the second sign Jesus does, coming out of Judea into Galilee.