John 4 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

Jesus Goes to Galilee

4 Therefore when (A)the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and (B)baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although (C)Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His (D)disciples were), 3 He left (E)Judea and went away (F)again into 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 ground that (J)Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about [a]the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

7 There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His (K)disciples had gone away into (L)the city to buy food. 9 Therefore the (M)Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For (N)Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said to 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 (O)living water.” 11 She *said to Him, “[b]Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that (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 thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him (R)shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to (S)eternal life.”

15 The woman *said to Him, “[c]Sir, (T)give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” 16 He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “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 you have said truly.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “[d]Sir, I perceive that You are (U)a prophet. 20 (V)Our fathers worshiped in (W)this mountain, and you people say that (X)in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, (Y)an hour is coming when (Z)neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 (AA)You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for (AB)salvation is from the Jews. 23 But (AC)an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (AD)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 God is [e]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 who speak to you am He.”

27 At this point His (AI)disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?” 28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and *said to the men, 29 “Come, see a man (AJ)who told me all the things that I have done; (AK)this is not [f]the Christ, is it?” 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “(AL)Rabbi, eat.” 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 yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white (AP)for harvest. 36 Already he who reaps is receiving (AQ)wages and is gathering (AR)fruit for (AS)life eternal; so that he who sows and he 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 entered into their labor.”

The Samaritans

39 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 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 is indeed (AW)the Savior of the world.”

43 After (AX)the two days He went forth from there into 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, (AZ)having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Healing a Nobleman’s Son

46 Therefore He came again to (BA)Cana of Galilee (BB)where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at (BC)Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come (BD)out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see [g](BE)signs and (BF)wonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official *said to Him, “[h]Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus *said to him, “(BG)Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off. 51 As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his [i]son was living. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the [j]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 lives”; and he himself believed and (BH)his whole household. 54 This is again a (BI)second [k]sign that Jesus performed when He had (BJ)come out of Judea into Galilee.

Footnotes

  1. John 4:6 Perhaps 6 p.m. Roman time or noon Jewish time
  2. John 4:11 Or Lord
  3. John 4:15 Or Lord
  4. John 4:19 Or Lord
  5. John 4:24 Or Spirit
  6. John 4:29 I.e. the Messiah
  7. John 4:48 Or attesting miracles
  8. John 4:49 Or Lord
  9. John 4:51 Or boy
  10. John 4:52 Perhaps 7 p.m. Roman time or 1 p.m. Jewish time
  11. John 4:54 Or attesting miracle

Cross references

  1. John 4:1 : Luke 7:13
  2. John 4:1 : John 3:22, 26; 1 Cor 1:17
  3. John 4:2 : John 3:22, 26; 1 Cor 1:17
  4. John 4:2 : John 2:2
  5. John 4:3 : John 3:22
  6. John 4:3 : John 2:11f
  7. John 4:4 : Luke 9:52
  8. John 4:5 : Luke 9:52
  9. John 4:5 : Gen 33:19; Josh 24:32
  10. John 4:5 : Gen 48:22; John 4:12
  11. John 4:8 : John 2:2
  12. John 4:8 : John 4:5, 39
  13. John 4:9 : Luke 9:52
  14. John 4:9 : Ezra 4:3-6, 11ff; Matt 10:5; John 8:48; Acts 10:28
  15. John 4:10 : Jer 2:13; John 4:14; 7:37f; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17
  16. John 4:11 : Jer 2:13; John 4:14; 7:37f; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17
  17. John 4:12 : John 4:6
  18. John 4:14 : John 6:35; 7:38
  19. John 4:14 : Matt 25:46; John 6:27
  20. John 4:15 : John 6:35
  21. John 4:19 : Matt 21:11; Luke 7:16, 39; 24:19; John 6:14; 7:40; 9:17
  22. John 4:20 : Gen 33:20; John 4:12
  23. John 4:20 : Deut 11:29; Josh 8:33
  24. John 4:20 : Luke 9:53
  25. John 4:21 : John 4:23; 5:25, 28; 16:2, 32
  26. John 4:21 : Mal 1:11; 1 Tim 2:8
  27. John 4:22 : 2 Kin 17:28-41
  28. John 4:22 : Is 2:3; Rom 3:1f; 9:4f
  29. John 4:23 : John 4:21; 5:25, 28; 16:2, 32
  30. John 4:23 : Phil 3:3
  31. John 4:24 : Phil 3:3
  32. John 4:25 : Dan 9:25; John 1:41
  33. John 4:25 : Matt 1:16; 27:17, 22; Luke 2:11
  34. John 4:26 : John 8:24, 28, 58; 9:37; 13:19
  35. John 4:27 : John 4:8
  36. John 4:29 : John 4:17f
  37. John 4:29 : Matt 12:23; John 7:26, 31
  38. John 4:31 : Matt 23:7; 26:25, 49; Mark 9:5; 11:21; 14:45; John 1:38, 49; 3:2, 26; 6:25; 9:2; 11:8
  39. John 4:33 : Luke 6:13-16; John 1:40-49; 2:2
  40. John 4:34 : John 5:30; 6:38
  41. John 4:34 : John 5:36; 17:4; 19:28, 30
  42. John 4:35 : Matt 9:37, 38; Luke 10:2
  43. John 4:36 : Prov 11:18; 1 Cor 9:17f
  44. John 4:36 : Rom 1:13
  45. John 4:36 : Matt 19:29; John 3:36; 4:14; 5:24; Rom 2:7; 6:23
  46. John 4:37 : Job 31:8; Mic 6:15
  47. John 4:39 : John 4:5, 30
  48. John 4:39 : John 4:29
  49. John 4:42 : Matt 1:21; Luke 2:11; John 1:29; Acts 5:31; 13:23; 1 Tim 4:10; 1 John 4:14
  50. John 4:43 : John 4:40
  51. John 4:44 : Matt 13:57; Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24
  52. John 4:45 : John 2:23
  53. John 4:46 : John 2:1
  54. John 4:46 : John 2:9
  55. John 4:46 : Luke 4:23; John 2:12
  56. John 4:47 : John 4:3, 54
  57. John 4:48 : Dan 4:2f; 6:27; Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 7:36; 14:3; 15:12; Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 1:22; 2 Cor 12:12; 2 Thess 2:9; Heb 2:4
  58. John 4:48 : Dan 4:2f; 6:27; Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 7:36; 14:3; 15:12; Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 1:22; 2 Cor 12:12; 2 Thess 2:9; Heb 2:4
  59. John 4:50 : Matt 8:13
  60. John 4:53 : Acts 11:14
  61. John 4:54 : John 2:11
  62. John 4:54 : John 4:45f

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