Johannes 4

Jesus og den samaritanske kvinde

1 Da farisæerne i Jerusalem fik meddelelse om, at Jesus fik flere disciple og døbte flere end Johannes -2 selv om det faktisk var Jesu disciple, der døbte - blev de vrede på ham. Da Jesus blev klar over det,

3 brød han op fra Judæa for at vende tilbage til Galilæa.
4 Han vidste, at det var Guds plan, at han skulle rejse gennem Samaria, som jøderne normalt går langt uden om.

5-6 Da han nærmede sig byen Sykar i Samaria, standsede han op ved den berømte Jakobs brønd. Den ligger på et stykke jord, som patriarken Jakob købte og senere gav i arv til sin søn Josef. Jesus var træt efter den lange vandring og satte sig udmattet ved brønden. Klokken var cirka seks.t
7 Kort tid efter kom en samaritansk kvinde for at hente vand, og Jesus sagde til hende: Vær venlig at give mig noget at drikke.8 Han var alene, for hans disciple var gået ind til byen for at købe mad.

9 Kvinden blev overrasket over, at en jøde henvendte sig til hende, for jøderne plejer ikke at ville have noget med samaritanere at gøre. Hvordan kan det være, at du, som er jøde, beder mig, en samaritansk kvinde, om noget at drikke? spurgte hun.

10 Jesus svarede: Hvis du vidste, hvad Gud kan give dig, og hvis du forstod, hvem jeg er, så var det dig, der ville bede mig om noget at drikke - og så ville jeg give dig levendet vand.
11 Du har jo ingen spand, sagde hun, og brønden her er meget dyb. Hvordan vil du så skaffe det levende vand?

12 Du er vel ikke større end vores stamfar Jakob, som gav os denne brønd? Kan du give mig vand, der er bedre end det både Jakob selv, hans familie og hans kvæg har drukket af?
13 Jesus svarede: Drikker man af det her almindelige vand, bliver man tørstig igen.

14 Men drikker man af det vand, jeg giver, vil man aldrig mere tørste. Det vand, jeg giver, bliver som et kilde, der vælder frem med evigt liv.

15 Åh, giv mig noget af det vand! udbrød kvinden. Tænk, hvis man aldrig mere skulle tørste og være nødt til at gå helt herud efter vand!

16 Gå hjem og hent din mand, sagde Jesus.
17-18 Jeg har ikke nogen mand, svarede kvinden.
Det har du ret i, for du har haft fem mænd; og ham, du nu bor sammen med, er ikke din mand. Dér sagde du noget sandt.19 Herre, udbrød kvinden, du må være en profet!

20 Kan du så forklare mig, hvorfor I jøder påstår, at det kun er i templet i Jerusalem, man kan tilbede Gud? Vi har jo fra gammel tid tilbedt Gud på det her bjerg.
21 Jesus svarede: Tro mig: Den tid kommer, hvor det ikke længere er væsentligt, hvor man tilbeder Gud - her eller i Jerusalem.22 I samaritanere tilbeder det, som I ikke kender, men vi tilbeder det, vi kender, for frelsen udgår fra jøderne.23 Men der kommer en tid, ja, den er allerede kommet, hvor de sande tilbedere skal tilbede Faderen i ånd og sandhed. Det er den slags tilbedere, Faderen søger.

24 Gud er ånd, og de, der tilbeder ham, skal tilbede i ånd og sandhed.
25 Kvinden sagde: Jeg ved, at Messias skal komme engang, og når han kommer, vil han forklare os alt.

26 Da sagde Jesus til hende: Han står her og taler med dig!

27 I det samme kom disciplene tilbage. De blev overraskede over, at han talte med en kvinde, men ingen af dem spurgte ham, hvorfor han gjorde det, eller hvad han ville hende.
28 Kvinden lod nu sin vandkrukke stå ved brønden og løb tilbage til byen.29 Kom og se en mand, som har fortalt mig alt, hvad jeg har gjort! råbte hun. Mon ikke han er Messias?

30 Straks løb en masse mennesker ud for at se, hvem det var, hun snakkede om.

Den åndelige, samaritanske mark er klar til at blive høstet

31 Da kvinden var gået, sagde disciplene til Jesus: Mester, kom og få noget at spise.32 Men Jesus svarede: Jeg har mad at spise, som I ikke kender til.

33 Disciplene spurgte hinanden: Hvem kan være kommet med mad til ham?
34 Jesus svarede: Min mad er at gøre hans vilje, som sendte mig, og at fuldføre den opgave, han gav mig.35 I siger nok: Der er stadig fire måneder til høsten begynder. Men jeg siger jer: Luk øjnene op! Markerne er hvide og parate til at blive høstet!36 Høstfolkene er allerede begyndt at arbejde og få deres løn. De samler afgrøde ind til evigt liv. Den, som sår, skal glæde sig sammen med den, som høster,37 for her gælder det ordsprog: Én sår, og en anden høster.

38 Jeg har sendt jer ud for at høste det, som I ikke har arbejdet med. Andre har slidt i det før jer, men I skal fuldføre det, som de begyndte.

Mange samaritanere kommer til tro på Jesus

39 Kvinden gik rundt og fortalte alle og enhver om, hvordan Jesus havde vidst ting om hende, som en fremmed ikke kunne vide. Som resultat heraf var der mange samaritanere fra den by, som kom til tro på ham.
40 Da samaritanerne kom ud til brønden, indbød de straks Jesus til at komme ind og overnatte i byen, og han blev hos dem i to dage.41 I løbet af den tid kom mange til tro ved at lytte til hans ord,

42 og de sagde til kvinden: Nu tror vi, fordi vi selv har hørt ham, og ikke kun på grund af det, du fortalte. Han er virkelig verdens Frelser, den Messias, vi har ventet på.t

Jesus helbreder en embedsmands søn

43 Da de to dage var gået, fortsatte Jesus sin rejse til Galilæa, dog ikke til sin hjemby,44 for han havde jo selv sagt, at en profet ikke er anerkendt i sin egen by.

45 Men de øvrige galilæere tog imod ham med åbne arme. Mange havde nemlig været i Jerusalem under påskefesten og havde set de undere, han havde udført der.
46 Jesus slog sig foreløbig ned i Kana, hvor han havde gjort vand til vin.t I byen Kapernaum i nærheden boede der en højtstående embedsmand, hvis søn lå alvorligt syg.

47 Da han hørte, at Jesus var ankommet til Kana, tog han straks af sted, opsøgte Jesus og bad ham følge med til Kapernaum for at helbrede drengen, der lå for døden.

48 I vil kun tro på mig, hvis I ser tegn og undere, sagde Jesus.

49 Herre, bønfaldt embedsmanden, du må komme, inden min lille dreng dør!
50 Du kan roligt gå hjem, sagde Jesus, din søn er helbredt. Manden troede Jesus og gik.51 Allerede på vejen hjem traf han nogle af sine tjenere, der var gået ham i møde for at fortælle ham, at hans søn nu var rask.52 Han spurgte dem, hvornår drengen var begyndt at få det bedre. I går aftes ved syvtident forsvandt feberen pludselig! forklarede de.

53 Da forstod han, at det var sket i det øjeblik, Jesus havde sagt: Din søn er helbredt. Og han selv og hele hans familie kom til tro på Jesus.

54 Det var det andet mirakuløse tegn, som Jesus udførte i Galilæa, efter at han var vendt hjem fra turen til Judæa.

John 4

Departure From Judea

1 Now when Jesusst knew that the Phariseess had heard that het was winningt and baptizing more disciples than John2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),s

3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.s

Conversation With a Samaritan Woman

4 But he hads to pass through Samaria.s5 Now he came to a Samaritan townt called Sychar,s near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.s

6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down besidet the well. It was about noon.ts
7 A Samaritan womant came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some watert to drink.”8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.t)s

9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jewt – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for watert to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in commonts with Samaritans.)s
10 Jesus answeredt her, “If you had knownt the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some watert to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”ts11 “Sir,”t the womans said to him, “you have no bucket and the wellt is deep; where then do you get thist living water?s

12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestort Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”t
13 Jesus replied,t “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirstyt again.14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again,t but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountaint of water springing upt to eternal life.”15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to drawt water.”t16 Hess said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”t17 The woman replied,t “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said,t ‘I have no husband,’t

18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living witht now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I seet that you are a prophet.20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,s and you peoplet say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”s21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman,s a timet is coming when you will worshipt the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You peoplet worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.t23 But a timet is coming – and now is heret – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seekss such people to bet his worshipers.ts24 God is spirit,t and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ);ts “whenever het comes, he will tellt us everything.”t

26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

The Disciples Return

27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back.t They were shockedt because he was speakingt with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?”ts or “Why are you speaking with her?”28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,t29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah,t can he?”t

30 Sot they left the town and began comings to him.

Workers for the Harvest

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,t “Rabbi, eat something.”t32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”33 So the disciples began to sayt to one another, “No one brought him anythingt to eat, did they?”t34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent mes and to completet his work.ts35 Don’t you say,t ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look upt and see that the fields are already whitet for harvest!36 The one who reaps receives payt and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.37 For in this instance the saying is true,t ‘One sows and another reaps.’

38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

The Samaritans Respond

39 Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,t “He told me everything I ever did.”40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began askingt him to stay with them.t He stayed there two days,41 and because of his word many moret believed.

42 They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this onet really is the Savior of the world.”s

Onward to Galilee

43 After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)s

45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalemss at the feasts (for they themselves had gone to the feast).s

Healing the Royal Official’s Son

46 Now he came again to Canas in Galilee where he had made the water wine.s Int Capernaumss there was a certain royal officialt whose son was sick.47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged himt to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you peoplet see signs and wonders you will never believe!”t49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.”

50 Jesus told him, “Go home;t your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.t
51 While he was on his way down,s his slavest met him and told him that his son was going to live.52 So he asked them the timet when his condition began to improve,t andt they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoont the fever left him.”53 Then the father realized that it was the very timet Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.

54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous signt when he returned from Judea to Galilee.