約翰福音 4

耶穌和撒瑪利亞婦人談道

1 耶穌t知道法利賽人聽見他收門徒和施洗比約翰還多， （ 2 其實不是耶穌親自施洗，而是他的門徒施洗，） 3 他就離開猶太，又回加利利去。 4 他必須經過撒瑪利亞， 5 於是到了撒瑪利亞的一座城，名叫敘加，靠近雅各給他兒子約瑟的那塊地。 6 雅各井就在那裏；耶穌因旅途疲乏，坐在井旁。那時約是正午。

7 有一個撒瑪利亞婦人來打水。耶穌對她說：「請給我水喝。」 8 因為那時門徒進城買食物去了。 9 撒瑪利亞婦人對他說：「你是猶太人，怎麼向我一個撒瑪利亞女人要水喝呢？」因為猶太人和撒瑪利亞人沒有來往。 10 耶穌回答她說：「你若知道上帝的恩賜，和對你說『請給我水喝』的是誰，你早就會求他，他也早就會給了你活水。」 11 婦人對耶穌說：「先生，你沒有打水的器具，井又深，哪裏去取活水呢？ 12 我們的祖宗雅各把這井留給我們，他自己和兒女以及牲畜都喝這井裏的水，難道你比他還大嗎？」 13 耶穌回答，對她說：「凡喝這水的，還要再渴； 14 誰喝我所賜的水，就永遠不渴。我所賜的水要在他裏面成為泉源，直湧到永生。」 15 婦人對他說：「先生，請把這水賜給我，使我不渴，也不用到這裏來打水。」

16 耶穌對她說：「你去，叫你的丈夫，再到這裏來。」 17 婦人回答，對耶穌說：「我沒有丈夫。」耶穌說：「你說沒有丈夫是對的。 18 你已經有過五個丈夫，你現在有的並不是你的丈夫。你這話是真的。」 19 婦人對他說：「先生，我看你是一位先知。 20 我們的祖宗在這山上敬拜上帝，你們倒說，應當敬拜的地方是在耶路撒冷。」 21 耶穌對她說：「婦人，你要信我。時候將到，你們敬拜父，既不在這山上，也不在耶路撒冷。 22 你們所敬拜的，你們不知道；我們所敬拜的，我們知道，因為救恩是從猶太人出來的。 23 時候將到，現在就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要用心靈和誠實敬拜他，因為父要這樣的人敬拜他。 24 上帝是靈，所以敬拜他的必須用心靈和誠實敬拜他。」 25 婦人對他說：「我知道彌賽亞—就是那稱為基督的—要來；他來了，會把一切的事都告訴我們。」 26 耶穌對她說：「我就是，正在跟你說話呢！」

27 正在這時，門徒回來了。他們對耶穌正在和一個婦人說話感到驚訝，可是沒有人說：「你要甚麼？」或說：「你為甚麼和她說話？」 28 那婦人留下水罐，往城裏去，對眾人說： 29 「你們來看！有一個人把我素來所做的一切事都說了出來，難道這個人就是基督嗎？」 30 他們就出城，來到耶穌那裏。

31 就在這個時候，門徒求耶穌說：「拉比，請吃吧。」 32 耶穌對他們說：「我有食物吃，是你們不知道的。」 33 門徒就彼此說：「難道有人拿甚麼給他吃了嗎？」 34 耶穌對他們說：「我的食物就是要遵行差我來那位的旨意，完成他的工作。 35 你們不是說『到收割的時候還有四個月』嗎？我告訴你們，舉目向田觀看，莊稼熟了，可以收割了。 36 收割的人已經得工錢t，為永生儲存五穀，使撒種的和收割的一同快樂。 37 『那人撒種，這人收割』，這話可見是真的。 38 我差你們去收你們所沒有辛勞的；別人辛勞，你們享受他們辛勞的成果。」

39 那城裏有好些撒瑪利亞人信了耶穌，因為那婦人作見證，說：「他把我素來所做的一切事都說了出來。」 40 於是撒瑪利亞人來見耶穌，求他在他們那裏住下，他就在那裏住了兩天。 41 因為耶穌的話，信的人就更多了。 42 他們對那婦人說：「現在我們信，不再是因為你的話，而是我們親自聽見了，知道這人真是世界的救主。」

耶穌治好大臣的兒子

43 過了那兩天，耶穌離開那地方，往加利利去。 44 因為耶穌自己作過見證說：「先知在自己的家鄉是沒有人尊敬的。」 45 到了加利利，加利利人都歡迎他，因為他們也上耶路撒冷去過節，曾經看過他在節期間所做的一切事。

46 耶穌又到了加利利的迦拿，就是他從前變水為酒的地方。有一個大臣，他的兒子在迦百農病了。 47 他聽見耶穌從猶太到了加利利，就來見他，求他下去醫治他的兒子，因為他兒子快要死了。 48 耶穌對他說：「若不看見神蹟奇事，你們總是不信。」 49 那大臣對他說：「先生，求你趁著我的孩子還沒有死就下去吧。」 50 耶穌對他說：「回去吧，你的兒子會活！」那人信耶穌所說的話，就回去了。 51 正下去的時候，他的僕人迎面而來，說他的兒子活了。 52 他就問甚麼時候見好的。他們對他說：「昨天下午一點鐘熱就退了。」 53 他就知道這正是耶穌對他說「你的兒子會活」的時候；他自己和全家就都信了。 54 這是耶穌從猶太回到加利利後所行的第二個神蹟。

JOHN 4

1 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was.

2 But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.

Jesus //and the Samaritan Woman

3 Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4 This time he had to go through Samaria, 5 t and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.

6-8 The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from traveling. It was noon, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.
Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”

9  t “You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”t

10 Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water?

12 Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again.

14 But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give will become in that person a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”

15 The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.”

16 Jesus told her, “Go and bring your husband.”

17-18 The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.”
“That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”
19 The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.

20 My ancestors worshiped on this mountain, t but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her:
Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. 23 But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshipers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him.

24 God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.

25 The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 “I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.”

27 The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
28 The woman left her water jar and ran back into town, where she said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?”

30 Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.

31 While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.”

32 But Jesus told them, “I have food you don't know anything about.”

33 His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said:
My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.

35 You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.
36 Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. 37 So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.”

38 I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.
39 A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.”

40 They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.
41 Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say.

42 They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Savior of the world!”

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

(Matthew 8.5-13; Luke 7.1-10)

43-44  t Jesus had said, “Prophets are honored everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left

45 t and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.
46  t While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick.

47 And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.

48 Jesus told the official, “You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!”

49 The man replied, “Lord, please come before my son dies!”

50 Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and started back home.
51 Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, “Your son is better!”

52 He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”

53 The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.
54 This was the second miraclet that Jesus worked after he left Judea and went to Galilee.