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John 4-5
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John 4-5
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Jesus Goes to Galilee
4 So then, when (A)the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that [a]He was making and (B)baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although (C)Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His (D)disciples were), 3 He left (E)Judea and went away (F)again to Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through (G)Samaria. 5 So He *came to a city of (H)Samaria called Sychar, near (I)the parcel of land that (J)Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about [b]the sixth hour.
The Woman of Samaria
7 A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His (K)disciples had gone away to (L)the city to buy food. 9 So the (M)Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For (N)Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you (O)living water.” 11 She *said to Him, “[c]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this (P)living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who (Q)gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him (R)shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to (S)eternal life.”
15 The woman *said to Him, “[d]Sir, (T)give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.” 16 He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “[e]Sir, I perceive that You are (U)a prophet. 20 (V)Our fathers worshiped on (W)this mountain, and yet you Jews say that (X)in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.” 21 Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that [f](Y)a time is coming when you will worship the Father (Z)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 (AA)You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because (AB)salvation is from the Jews. 23 But [g](AC)a time is coming, and [h]even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (AD)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be [i]His worshipers. 24 God is [j]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship (AE)in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman *said to Him, “I know that (AF)Messiah is coming ((AG)He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus *said to her, “(AH)I am He, the One speaking to you.”
27 And at this point His (AI)disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What are You seeking?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” 28 So the woman left her waterpot and went into the city, and *said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man (AJ)who told me all the things that I have done; (AK)this is not the [k]Christ, is He?” 30 They left the city and were coming to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “(AL)Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the (AM)disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” 34 Jesus *said to them, “My food is to (AN)do the will of Him who sent Me, and to (AO)accomplish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields, that they are white (AP)for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving (AQ)wages and is gathering (AR)fruit for (AS)eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true: ‘(AT)One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have [l]come into their labor.”
The Samaritans
39 Now from (AU)that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “(AV)He told me all the things that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to [m]Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of His word; 42 and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is (AW)the Savior of the world.”
43 And after (AX)the two days, He departed from there for Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that (AY)a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because (AZ)they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.
Healing an Official’s Son
46 Therefore He came again to (BA)Cana of Galilee, (BB)where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at (BC)Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come (BD)from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see [n](BE)signs and (BF)wonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official *said to Him, “[o]Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus *said to him, “(BG)Go; your son [p]is alive.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home. 51 And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his [q]son was [r]alive. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the [s]seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son is alive”; and he himself believed, and (BH)his entire household. 54 This is again a (BI)second [t]sign that Jesus performed when He had (BJ)come from Judea into Galilee.
The Healing at Bethesda
5 After these things there was (BK)a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem, by (BL)the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which (BM)in [u]Hebrew is called [v]Bethesda, having five [w]porticoes. 3 In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or [x]paralyzed.[y] 5 Now a man was there who had been [z]ill for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, *said to him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus *said to him, “(BN)Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” 9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.
(BO)Now it was a Sabbath on that day. 10 So (BP)the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and (BQ)it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” 11 But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” 13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. 14 Afterward, Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not (BR)sin anymore, (BS)so that nothing worse happens to you.” 15 The man went away, and informed (BT)the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 For this reason (BU)the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. 17 But He answered them, “My Father [aa]is working until now, and I Myself am working.”
Jesus’ Equality with God
18 For this reason therefore (BV)the Jews (BW)were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, (BX)making Himself equal with God.
19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (BY)the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever [ab]the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way. 20 (BZ)For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him (CA)greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and (CB)gives them life, so (CC)the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. 22 For not even the Father judges anyone, but (CD)He has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. (CE)The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and (CF)believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and (CG)does not come into judgment, but has (CH)passed out of death into life.
Two Resurrections
25 Truly, truly, I say to you, [ac](CI)a time is coming and [ad]even now has arrived, when (CJ)the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who (CK)hear will live. 26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He (CL)gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; 27 and He gave Him authority to (CM)execute judgment, because He is [ae]the Son of Man. 28 Do not be amazed at this; for [af](CN)a time is coming when (CO)all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, 29 and will come out: (CP)those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the bad deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
30 “(CQ)I can do nothing [ag]on My own. As I hear, I judge; and (CR)My judgment is [ah]righteous, because I do not seek My own will but (CS)the will of Him who sent Me.
31 “(CT)If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not [ai]true. 32 There is (CU)another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
Testimony of John the Baptist
33 You have sent messengers to John, and he (CV)has testified to the truth. 34 But (CW)the testimony I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 He was (CX)the lamp that was burning and shining, and you (CY)were willing to rejoice for [aj]a while in his light.
Testimony of Works
36 But the testimony I have is greater than the testimony of John; for (CZ)the works which the Father has given Me (DA)to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father (DB)has sent Me.
Testimony of the Father
37 And the Father who sent Me, (DC)He has testified about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 38 Also you do not have (DD)His word remaining in you, because you do not believe Him whom He (DE)sent.
Testimony of the Scripture
39 [ak](DF)You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is (DG)those very Scriptures that testify about Me; 40 and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. 41 (DH)I do not receive glory from people; 42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not [al]receive Me; (DI)if another comes in his own name, you will [am]receive him. 44 How can you believe, when you [an](DJ)accept [ao]glory from one another and you do not seek (DK)the [ap]glory that is from (DL)the one and only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is (DM)Moses, in whom you have put your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for (DN)he wrote about Me. 47 But (DO)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Footnotes
- John 4:1 Lit Jesus
- John 4:6 I.e., noon
- John 4:11 Or Lord
- John 4:15 Or Lord
- John 4:19 Or Lord
- John 4:21 Lit an hour
- John 4:23 Lit an hour
- John 4:23 Lit now is, when
- John 4:23 Lit the ones worshiping Him
- John 4:24 Or Spirit
- John 4:29 I.e., Messiah
- John 4:38 I.e., enjoyed the fruit of their labor
- John 4:40 Lit Him
- John 4:48 I.e., confirming miracles
- John 4:49 Or Lord
- John 4:50 I.e., is well
- John 4:51 Or boy
- John 4:51 I.e., well
- John 4:52 I.e., 1 p.m.
- John 4:54 I.e., confirming miracle
- John 5:2 I.e., Jewish Aramaic
- John 5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida or Bethzatha
- John 5:2 Or colonnades (with roofs)
- John 5:3 Or had shrunken limbs
- John 5:3 Late mss add the following as the remainder of v 3, and v 4: paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first stepped in after the stirring up of the water was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted
- John 5:5 Lit in his sickness
- John 5:17 I.e., has been and continues
- John 5:19 Lit that One
- John 5:25 Lit an hour
- John 5:25 Lit now is, when
- John 5:27 Or a son of man
- John 5:28 Lit an hour
- John 5:30 Or of Myself
- John 5:30 Or fair
- John 5:31 I.e., admissible as legal evidence
- John 5:35 Lit an hour
- John 5:39 Or (a command) Examine the Scriptures
- John 5:43 Or accept
- John 5:43 Or accept
- John 5:44 Or receive
- John 5:44 Or honor
- John 5:44 Or honor
John 4-5
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John 4-5
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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(A)— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea(B) and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.(C) 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(D) 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(E) 8 (His disciples had gone into the town(F) to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan(G) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”(H)
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(I) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.(J) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(K) welling up to eternal life.”(L)
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty(M) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.(N) 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,(O) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”(P)
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming(Q) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(R) 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know;(S) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.(T) 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come(U) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit(V) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,(W) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)(X) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”(Y)
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27 Just then his disciples returned(Z) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.(AA) Could this be the Messiah?”(AB) 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,(AC) eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat(AD) that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will(AE) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(AF) 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.(AG) 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests(AH) a crop for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’(AJ) is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town(AK) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”(AL) 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”(AM)
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 After the two days(AN) he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)(AO) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,(AP) for they also had been there.
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.(AQ) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,(AR) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”(AS) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household(AT) believed.
54 This was the second sign(AU) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
The Healing at the Pool
5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate(AV) a pool, which in Aramaic(AW) is called Bethesda[b] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [c] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”(AX) 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,(AY) 10 and so the Jewish leaders(AZ) said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”(BA)
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning(BB) or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders(BC) that it was Jesus who had made him well.
The Authority of the Son
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father(BD) is always at his work(BE) to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;(BF) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.(BG)
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;(BH) he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son(BI) and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,(BJ) so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,(BK) even so the Son gives life(BL) to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,(BM) 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.(BN)
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me(BO) has eternal life(BP) and will not be judged(BQ) but has crossed over from death to life.(BR) 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come(BS) when the dead will hear(BT) the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life(BU) in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge(BV) because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming(BW) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.(BX) 30 By myself I can do nothing;(BY) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,(BZ) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.(CA)
Testimonies About Jesus
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.(CB) 32 There is another who testifies in my favor,(CC) and I know that his testimony about me is true.
33 “You have sent to John and he has testified(CD) to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony;(CE) but I mention it that you may be saved.(CF) 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light,(CG) and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John.(CH) For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing(CI)—testify that the Father has sent me.(CJ) 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.(CK) You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,(CL) 38 nor does his word dwell in you,(CM) for you do not believe(CN) the one he sent.(CO) 39 You study[d] the Scriptures(CP) diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.(CQ) These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,(CR) 40 yet you refuse to come to me(CS) to have life.
41 “I do not accept glory from human beings,(CT) 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[e]?(CU)
45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses,(CV) on whom your hopes are set.(CW) 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.(CX) 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”(CY)
Footnotes
- John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used
- John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida
- John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
- John 5:39 Or 39 Study
- John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One
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