Johannes 4

1 Der Herren nu erfarede, at Pharisæerne havde hørt, at Jesus gjorde flere Disciple og døbteflere end Johannes,2 (enddog Jesus ikke døbte selv, men hans Disciple):3 da forlod han Judæa og drog atter hen til Galilæa.4 Men han maatte reise igennem Samaria.5 Da kom han til en Stad i Samaria, som kaldes Sichar, nær ved det Stykke Land, som Jakob gav Joseph sin Søn.6 Men der var Jacobs Brønd. Der Jesus da var træt af Reisen, satte han sig ved Brønden; det var ved den sjette Time.7 Da kom en samaritansk Kvinde, at drage Vand op. Jesus sagde til hende: giv mig at drikke.8 Thi hans Disciple vare gangne til Staden for at kjøbe Mad.9 Da sagde den samaritanske Kvinde til ham: hvorledes beder du, som er en Jøde, mig, som er en samaritansk Kvinde, om Drikke? Thi Jøder holde ikke Samkvem med Samaritaner.10 Jesus svarede og sagde til hende: dersom du kjendte Guds Gave, og hvo den er, som siger til dig: giv mig at drikke, da bad du ham, og han gav dig levende Vand.11 Kvinden sagde til ham: Herre! du har jo Intet at drage op med, og Brønden er dyb; hvorfra har du da det levende Vand?12 Mon du være mere en vor Fader Jakob, som har givet os Brønden, og han har selv drukket deraf, og hans Børn og hans Kvæg?13 Jesus svarede og sagde til hende: hver den, som drikker af dette Vand, skal tørste igjen.14 Men hvo som drikker af det Vand, som jeg vil give ham, skal til evig Tid ikke tørste; men det Vand, som jeg vil give ham, skal blive i ham en Kilde af Vand, som opvælder til et evigt Liv.15 Kvinden siger til ham: Herre! giv mig det Vand, at jeg ikke skal tørste og ikke komme hid for at drage op.16 Jesus siger til hende: gak bort, kald din mand og kom hid.17 Kvinden svarede og sagde: jeg har ingen Mand. Jesus siger til hende: du talede ret: jeg har ingen Mand.18 Thi du har havt fem Mænd; og den, som du nu har, er ikke din Mand. Det sagde du sandt.19 Kvinden siger til ham: Herre! jeg ser, at du er en Prophet.20 Vore Fældre have tilbedet paa dette Bjerg, og I sige, at i Jerusalem er Stedet, hvor man bør tilbede.21 Jesus siger til hende: Kvinde! tro mig, at den Time kommer, da I hverken paa dette Bjerg, ei heller i Jerusalem, skulle tilbede Faderen.22 I tilbede det, som I ikke kjende; vi tilbede det, som vi kjende; thi Saliggjørelsen kommer fra Jøderne.23 Men den Time kommer, ja er nu, da de sande Tilbedere skulle tilbede Faderen I Aand og Sandhed; thi Faderen søger saadanne, som han saaledes tilbede.24 Gud er en Aand, og de, som han tilbede, bør det at tilbede i Aand og Sandhed.25 Kvinden siger til ham; jeg veed, at Messias kommer, (hvilket betyder Christus); naar han kommer, skal hen kundgjøre os alle Ting.26 Jesus siger til hende: ham er jeg, som taler med dig.27 Og i det samme kom hans Disciple, og forundrede sig, at han talede med Kvinden; dog sagde Ingen: hvad sprøger du? eller hvad taler du med hende?28 Da lod Kvinden sit Vandkar staae og gik ind i Staden og sagde til Menneskene der:29 kommer, seer et Menneske, som har sagt mig alt det, jeg har gjort; mon denne ikke være den Christus?30 Da gik de ud af Staden og kom til ham.31 Imidlertid bade Disciplene ham og sagde: Mester æd!32 Men han sagde til dem: jeg har Mad at æde, den I ikke kjende.33 Da sagde Disciplene til hverandre: mon Nogen har bragt ham Noget at æde?34 Jesus sagde til dem: min Mad er, at jeg gjør hans Villie, som mig udsendte, og fuldkommer hans Gjerning.35 Sige I ikke: der er endnu fire Maaneder, saa kommer Høsten? See, jeg siger Eder: opløfter Eders Øine, og seer Markerne; de ere allerede hvide til Høsten.36 Og hvo som høster, saaer Løn, og samler Frugt til et evigt Liv; paa det de skulle glæde sig tilhobe, baade den, som saaer, og den, som høster.37 Thi herudi er hiint Ord fandt: En saaer, og en Anden høster.38 Jeg har udsendt Eder at høste det, som I ikke arbeidede; Andre have arbeidet, og I ere indkomne i deres Arbeide.39 Men mange Samaritaner af den samme Stad troede paa ham for Kvindens tales Skyld, som vidnede: han har sagt mig alt det, jeg har gjort.40 Da nu Samaritanerne kom til ham, bade de ham, at han vilde blive hos dem; og han blev der to Dage.41 Og mange Flere troede for hans tales Skyld.42 Og de sagde til Kvinden: vi tro nu ikke længere for din Tales Skyld; thi vi have selv hørt og vide, at denne er sandelig den Verdens Frelser, den Christus.43 Men efter to Dage gik han derfra og drog til Galilæa.44 Thi Jesus vidnede selv, at en Prophet bliver ikke æret i sit Fædreneland.45 Der han da kom til Galilæa, annammede de Galilæer ham, som havde seet alt det, som han gjorde i Jerusalem paa Høitiden; thi de vare og komne til Høitiden.46 Da kom Jesus atter til Cana i Galilæa, vor han havde gjort Vand til Viin. Og der var en kongelig Tjener, hvis Søn laae syg i Capernaum.47 Der denne hørte, at Jesus var kommen fra Judæa til Galilæa, gik han til ham og bad ham, at han vilde komme og helbrede hans Søn; thi han var nær Døden.48 Da sagde Jesus til ham: dersom I ikke see Tegn og Undergjerninger, ville I ikke troe.49 Manden sagde til ham: Herre! kom, før mit Barn døer.50 Jesus siger til ham: gak bort, din Søn lever. Og Manden troede det Ord, som Jesus sagde til ham, og gik bort.51 Men idet han nu drog bort, mødte hans Tjenere ham og forkyndte og sagde: dit Barn lever.52 Da udspurgte han dem den Time, paa hvilken det var blevet bedre med ham; og de sagde til ham: igaar ved den syvende Time forlod Feberen ham.53 Da mærkede Faderen, at det var skeet paa den samme Time, paa hvilken Jesus havde sagt til ham: din Søn lever! og han troede selv og hans ganske Huus.54 Dette fik andet Tegn gjorde Jesus, der han var kommen fra Judæa til Galilæa.

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.