The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 4
{4:1} Therefore when the Lord knew that the Perushim had heard that
Yeshua was making and immersing more [1>]talmidim[<1] than Yochanan
{4:2} (although Yeshua himself didn't immerse, but his
[2>]talmidim[<2]), {4:3} he left Yehudah, and departed into the Galil.
{4:4} He needed to pass through Shomron. {4:5} So he came to a city of
Shomron, called Shekhem, near the parcel of ground that Ya`akov gave
to his son, Yosef. {4:6} Ya`akov's well was there. Yeshua therefore,
being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the
sixth hour. {4:7} A woman of Shomron came to draw water. Yeshua said
to her, "Give me a drink." {4:8} For his [3>]talmidim[<3] had gone
away into the city to buy food.
{4:9} The Shomroni woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you,
being a Yehudi, ask for a drink from me, a Shomroni woman?" (For
Yehudim have no dealings with Shomroni.)
{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, Ya`akov, who gave us the well,
and drank of it himself, as did his sons, and his cattle?"
{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
Yehudim say that in Yerushalayim 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 Yerushalayim, 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 Yehudim. {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 [4>]talmidim[<4] 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 [5>]talmidim[<5] 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 [6>]talmidim[<6] 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 Shomroni believed in him because
of the word of the woman, who testified, 'He told me everything that I
did." {4:40} So when the Shomroni 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 the
Galil. {4:44} For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honor
in his own country. {4:45} So when he came into the Galil, the Galilim
received him, having seen all the things that he did in Yerushalayim
at the feast, for they also went to the feast. {4:46} Yeshua came
therefore again to Kanah of the Galil, where he made the water into
wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Kafar-Nachum.
{4:47} When he heard that Yeshua had come out of Yehudah into the
Galil, 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
seventh hour, 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 Yehudah into the Galil.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:1} disciples
[2] {4:2} disciples
[3] {4:8} disciples
[4] {4:27} disciples
[5] {4:31} disciples
[6] {4:33} disciples
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