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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus
was winning and baptizing
more disciples than John.
2 (Actually,
Jesus himself did not baptize
anyone; only his disciples did.)
3 So
when Jesus heard what was being
said, he left Judea and went back to
Galilee;
4 on his way there he had to
go through Samaria.
5 In Samaria he came to a town
named Sychar, which was not far
from the field that Jacob had given
to his son Joseph. note
6 Jacob's well was
there, and Jesus, tired out by the
trip, sat down by the well. It was
about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to
draw some water, and Jesus said to
her, “Give me a drink of water.”
8 (His disciples had gone into town
to buy food.)
9 The woman answered, “You are
a Jew, and I am a Samaritan—so
how can you ask me for a drink?”
(Jews will not use the same cups and
bowls that Samaritans use.) note note
10 Jesus answered, “If you only
knew what God gives and who it is
that is asking you for a drink, you
would ask him, and he would give
you life-giving water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you
don't have a bucket, and the well is
deep. Where would you get that life-giving
water?
12 It was our ancestor
Jacob who gave us this well; he and
his sons and his flocks all drank
from it. You don't claim to be
greater than Jacob, do you?”
13 Jesus answered, “Whoever
drinks this water will get thirsty
again,
14 but whoever drinks the water
that I will give him will never be
thirsty again. The water that I will
give him will become in him a spring
which will provide him with life-giving
water and give him eternal
life.”
15 “Sir,” the woman said, “give me
that water! Then I will never be
thirsty again, nor will I have to come
here to draw water.”
16 “Go and call your husband,” Jesus
told her, “and come back.”
17 “I don't have a husband,” she
answered.
17 Jesus replied, “You are right when
you say you don't have a husband.
18 You have been married to five
men, and the man you live with now
is not really your husband. You have
told me the truth.”
19 “I see you are a prophet, sir,”
the woman said.
20 “My Samaritan
ancestors worshiped God on this
mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem
is the place where we
should worship God.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me,
woman, the time will come when
people will not worship the Father
either on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans do not really
know whom you worship; but we
Jews know whom we worship, because
it is from the Jews that salvation
comes.
23 But the time is coming
and is already here, when by the
power of God's Spirit people will
worship the Father as he really is,
offering him the true worship that he
wants.
24 God is Spirit, and only by
the power of his Spirit can people
worship him as he really is.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know
-- --
that the Messiah will come, and
when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26 Jesus answered, “I am he, I who
am talking with you.”
27 At that moment Jesus' disciples
returned, and they were greatly surprised
to find him talking with a
woman. But none of them said to
her, “What do you want?” or asked
him, “Why are you talking with
her?”
28 Then the woman left her water
jar, went back to the town, and said
to the people there,
29 “Come and see
the man who told me everything I
have ever done. Could he be the
Messiah?”
30 So they left the town
and went to Jesus.
31 In the meantime the disciples
were begging Jesus, “Teacher, have
something to eat!”
32 But he answered, “I have food to
eat that you know nothing about.”
33 So the disciples started asking
among themselves, “Could somebody
have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” Jesus said to them,
“is to obey the will of the one who
sent me and to finish the work he
gave me to do.
35 You have a saying,
‘Four more months and then the harvest.’
But I tell you, take a good look
at the fields; the crops are now ripe
and ready to be harvested!
36 The
man who reaps the harvest is being
paid and gathers the crops for eternal
life; so the man who plants and
the man who reaps will be glad together.
37 For the saying is true, ‘One
man plants, another man reaps.’
38 I
have sent you to reap a harvest in a
field where you did not work; others
worked there, and you profit from
their work.”
39 Many of the Samaritans in that
town believed in Jesus because the
woman had said, “He told me everything
I have ever done.”
40 So when
the Samaritans came to him, they
begged him to stay with them, and
Jesus stayed there two days.
41 Many more believed because of
his message,
42 and they told the
woman, “We believe now, not because
of what you said, but because
we ourselves have heard him, and
we know that he really is the Savior
of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
43 After spending two days there,
Jesus left and went to Galilee.
44 For
he himself had said, “A prophet is
not respected in his own country.” note
45 When he arrived in Galilee, the
people there welcomed him, because
they had gone to the Passover Festival
in Jerusalem and had seen everything
that he had done during the
festival. note
46 Then Jesus went back to Cana in
Galilee, where he had turned the water
into wine. A government official
was there whose son was sick in
Capernaum. note
47 When he heard that
Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee,
he went to him and asked him
to go to Capernaum and heal his
son, who was about to die.
48 Jesus
said to him, “None of you will ever
believe unless you see miracles and
wonders.”
49 “Sir,” replied the official, “come
with me before my child dies.”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son
will live!”
50 The man believed Jesus' words
and went.
51 On his way home his
servants met him with the news,
“Your boy is going to live!”
52 He asked them what time it was
when his son got better, and they answered,
“It was one o'clock yesterday
afternoon when the fever left
him.”
53 Then the father remembered
that it was at that very hour when
Jesus had told him, “Your son will
live.” So he and all his family believed.
54 This was the second miracle that
Jesus performed after coming from
Judea to Galilee.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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