Ján 4

1 Keď sa Ježiš dozvedel, že farizeji počuli, ako získava a krstí viac učeníkov než Ján2 - hoci Ježiš sám nekrstil, ale jeho učeníci -,3 opustil Judeu a odišiel znova do Galiley.4 Pritom musel prejsť cez Samáriu.5 A tak prišiel do samarijského mesta menom Sychar neďaleko pozemku, ktorý dal Jakub svojmu synovi Jozefovi.6 Tam bola Jakubova studňa. Ježiš unavený z cesty sadol si k studni. Bolo okolo poludnia.7 Tu prišla po vodu istá Samaritánka. Ježiš jej povedal: „Daj sa mi napiť!“8 Jeho učeníci odišli do mesta nakúpiť potravy.9 Samaritánka mu povedala: „Ako si môžeš ty, Žid, pýtať vodu odo mňa, Samaritánky?“ Židia sa totiž so Samaritánmi nestýkajú.10 Ježiš jej odpovedal: „Keby si poznala Boží dar a vedela, kto je ten, čo ti hovorí: »Daj sa mi napiť,« ty by si poprosila jeho a on by ti dal živú vodu.“11 Žena mu povedala: „Pane, ani vedro nemáš a studňa je hlboká. Odkiaľ máš teda živú vodu?12 Si azda väčší ako náš otec Jakub, ktorý nám dal túto studňu a pil z nej on sám i jeho synovia a jeho stáda?“13 Ježiš jej odvetil: „Každý, kto pije túto vodu, bude znova smädný.14 Ale kto sa napije z vody, ktorú mu ja dám, nebude žízniť naveky. A voda, ktorú mu dám, stane sa v ňom prameňom vody prúdiacej do večného života.“15 Žena mu vravela: „Pane, daj mi takej vody, aby som už nebola smädná a nemusela sem chodiť čerpať!“16 Povedal jej: „Choď, zavolaj svojho muža a príď sem!“17 Žena mu odpovedala: „Nemám muža.“ Ježiš jej vravel: „Správne si povedala: »Nemám muža,«18 lebo si mala päť mužov a ten, ktorého máš teraz, nie je tvoj muž. To si povedala pravdu.“19 Žena mu vravela: „Pane, vidím, že si prorok.20 Naši otcovia sa klaňali Bohu na tomto vrchu, a vy hovoríte, že v Jeruzaleme je miesto, kde sa treba klaňať.“21 Ježiš jej povedal: „Ver mi, žena, že prichádza hodina, keď sa nebudete klaňať Otcovi ani na tomto vrchu, ani v Jeruzaleme.22 Vy sa klaniate tomu, čo nepoznáte; my sa klaniame tomu, čo poznáme, lebo spása je zo Židov.23 Ale prichádza hodina, ba už je tu, keď sa praví ctitelia budú klaňať Otcovi v Duchu a pravde. Lebo sám Otec hľadá takých ctiteľov.24 Boh je duch a tí, čo sa mu klaňajú, musia sa mu klaňať v Duchu a pravde.“25 Žena mu vravela: „Viem, že príde Mesiáš, zvaný Kristus. Až príde on, zvestuje nám všetko.“26 Ježiš jej povedal: „To som ja, čo sa rozprávam s tebou.“27 Vtom prišli jeho učeníci a divili sa, že sa rozpráva so ženou. Ale nik nepovedal: „Čo sa jej pýtaš?“ Alebo: „Prečo sa s ňou rozprávaš?“28 Žena nechala svoj džbán, odišla do mesta a vravela ľuďom:29 „Poďte sa pozrieť na človeka, ktorý mi povedal všetko, čo som porobila! Nebude to Mesiáš?“30 Vyšli teda z mesta a šli k nemu.31 Medzitým ho učeníci prosili: „Rabbi, jedz!“32 On im povedal: „Ja mám jesť pokrm, ktorý vy nepoznáte.“33 Učeníci si hovorili medzi sebou: „Vari mu niekto priniesol jesť?“34 Ježiš im povedal: „Mojím pokrmom je plniť vôľu toho, ktorý ma poslal, a dokonať jeho dielo.35 Nevravíte aj vy: »Ešte štyri mesiace a bude žatva?« Hľa, hovorím vám: Zdvihnite oči a pozrite sa na polia, že sú už biele na žatvu!36 Žnec už dostáva odmenu a zbiera úrodu pre večný život, aby sa spoločne tešili aj rozsievač, aj žnec.37 Tu sa potvrdzuje príslovie: Jeden rozsieva a druhý žne.38 Ja som vás poslal žať to, na čom ste nepracovali. Pracovali iní a vy ste vstúpili do ich práce.“39 Mnoho Samaritánov z toho mesta uverilo v neho pre slovo ženy, ktorá svedčila: „Povedal mi všetko, čo som porobila.“40 Keď Samaritáni prišli k nemu, prosili ho, aby u nich zostal. I zostal tam dva dni.41 A ešte oveľa viac ich uverilo pre jeho slovo.42 A žene povedali: „Už veríme nielen pre tvoje slovo, ale sami sme počuli a vieme, že toto je naozaj Spasiteľ sveta.“43 O dva dni odišiel stade do Galiley.44 Lebo sám Ježiš sa osvedčil, že vo svojej vlasti prorok nemá úctu.45 Keď prišiel do Galiley, Galilejčania ho uvítali, lebo videli všetko, čo urobil cez sviatky v Jeruzaleme. Aj oni tam boli na sviatky.46 Prišiel teda znova do Kány Galilejskej, kde premenil vodu na víno. Bol tam istý kráľovský úradník, ktorý mal v Kafarnaume chorého syna.47 Ako počul, že Ježiš prišiel z Judey do Galiley, vybral sa k nemu a prosil ho, aby šiel uzdraviť jeho syna, ktorý už umieral.48 Ježiš mu povedal: „Ak nevidíte znamenia a divy, neveríte.“49 Kráľovský úradník mu hovoril: „Pane, poď, kým mi dieťa neumrie!“50 Ježiš mu povedal: „Choď, tvoj syn žije!“ On uveril Ježišovmu slovu a šiel.51 Ešte bol na ceste, keď mu prišli sluhovia naproti a hovorili, že jeho dieťa žije.52 Pýtal sa ich, koľko hodín bolo, keď sa mu uľavilo. Povedali mu: „Včera o jednej popoludní mu prestala horúčka.“53 Tu otec poznal, že to bolo práve v tú hodinu, keď mu Ježiš povedal: „Tvoj syn žije.“ A uveril on i celý jeho dom.54 Toto bolo už druhé znamenie, ktoré urobil Ježiš, keď prišiel z Judey do Galiley.

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

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)

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.