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The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 4
{4:1} Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that
Yeshua was making and immersing more disciples than Yochanan {4:2}
(although Yeshua himself didn't immerse, but his disciples), {4:3} he
left Judea, and departed into Galilee. {4:4} He needed to pass through
Samaria. {4:5} So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. {4:6} Jacob's
well was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat
down by the well. It was about [1>]the sixth hour[<1]. {4:7} A woman
of Samaria came to draw water. Yeshua said to her, "Give me a drink."
{4:8} For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
{4:9} The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that
you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
{4:10} Yeshua answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it
is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and
he would have given you living water."
{4:11} The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
{4:12} Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well,
and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
{4:13} Yeshua answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will
thirst again, {4:14} but whoever drinks of the water that I will give
him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will
become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
{4:15} The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
{4:16} Yeshua said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
{4:17} The woman answered, "I have no husband."
Yeshua said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' {4:18} for
you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your
husband. This you have said truly."
{4:19} The woman said to him, "Sir, 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 people ought to worship."
{4:21} Yeshua said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when
neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the
Father. {4:22} You worship that which you don't know. We worship that
which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. {4:23} But the hour
comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
{4:24} God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth."
{4:25} The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who
is called Anointed One). "When he has come, he will declare to us all
things."
{4:26} Yeshua said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
{4:27} At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking
with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do
you speak with her?" {4:28} So the woman left her water pot, and went
away into the city, and said to the people, {4:29} "Come, see a man
who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?"
{4:30} They went out of the city, and were coming to him. {4:31} In
the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
{4:32} But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know
about."
{4:33} The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone
brought him something to eat?"
{4:34} Yeshua said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who
sent me, and to accomplish his work. {4:35} Don't you say, 'There are
yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your
eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
{4:36} He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life;
that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. {4:37}
For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' {4:38}
I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have
labored, and you have entered into their labor."
{4:39} From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because
of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I
did." {4:40} So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to
stay with them. He stayed there two days. {4:41} Many more believed
because of his word. {4:42} They said to the woman, "Now we believe,
not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and
know that this is indeed the Messiah, the Savior of the world."
{4:43} After the two days he went out from there and went into
Galilee. {4:44} For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no
honor in his own country. {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 went to the feast. {4:46} Yeshua
came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into
wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
{4:47} When he heard that Yeshua had come out of Judea into Galilee,
he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his
son, for he was at the point of death. {4:48} Yeshua therefore said to
him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
{4:49} The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child
dies." {4:50} Yeshua said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The
man believed the word that Yeshua spoke to him, and he went his way.
{4:51} As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported,
saying "Your child lives!" {4:52} So he inquired of them the hour when
he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the
[2>]seventh hour,[<2] the fever left him." {4:53} So the father knew
that it was at that hour in which Yeshua said to him, "Your son
lives." He believed, as did his whole house. {4:54} This is again the
second sign that Yeshua did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:6} noon
[2] {4:52} 1:00 P. M.
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