nsb - John:4

nsb@John:4:1 @ The Lord was aware that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.

nsb@John:4:2 @ Actually Jesus did not baptize. His disciples baptized.

nsb@John:4:3 @ He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

nsb@John:4:4 @ He needed to travel through Samaria.

nsb@John:4:5 @ He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

nsb@John:4:6 @ Jacobs well was there. It was about the sixth hour when Jesus arrived. Being weary from the journey he sat down by the well.

nsb@John:4:7 @ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: »Please give me a drink.«

nsb@John:4:8 @ His disciples went away to the city to buy meat.

nsb@John:4:9 @ The woman of Samaria asked: »How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria.«

nsb@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered: »If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.«

nsb@John:4:11 @ The woman said to him: »Sir, you do not have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

nsb@John:4:12 @ »Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well. He and his children and cattle drank from it.«

nsb@John:4:13 @ Jesus answered: »Whoever drinks from this water will thirst again.

nsb@John:4:14 @ »But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.«

nsb@John:4:15 @ The woman said to him: »Sir, give me this water! That way I will not thirst and not come here to draw.«

nsb@John:4:16 @ Jesus said to her: »Go call your husband and come here.«

nsb@John:4:17 @ The woman answered: »I have no husband.« Jesus replied to her: »You said well, »I have no husband.«

nsb@John:4:18 @ »For you have had five husbands. The one you have now is not your husband, this is true.«

nsb@John:4:19 @ The woman said to him: »Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

nsb@John:4:20 @ »Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.«

nsb@John:4:21 @ Jesus replied: »Woman believe me. The hour comes when you will worship the Father neither in the mountain nor in Jerusalem.

nsb@John:4:22 @ »You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know. Salvation is from the Jews.

nsb@John:4:23 @ »But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father with spirit and truth. The Father seeks such people to worship him.

nsb@John:4:24 @ »God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.«

nsb@John:4:25 @ The woman responded: »I know that Christ the Messiah is coming. When he comes he will tell us all things.«

nsb@John:4:26 @ Jesus said: »I that speak to you am he.«

nsb@John:4:27 @ His disciples came and wondered why he talked with the woman. Yet no one asked: »What are you looking for? Why did you talk to her?«

nsb@John:4:28 @ The woman left her water pot and went to the city. She spoke to the men.

nsb@John:4:29 @ »Come see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?«

nsb@John:4:30 @ They left the city to see him.

nsb@John:4:31 @ In the meantime his disciples urged him to eat.

nsb@John:4:32 @ He said: »I have food to eat that you do not know about.«

nsb@John:4:33 @ So the disciples said to each other: »Has any man brought him something to eat?«

nsb@John:4:34 @ Jesus said: »My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!

nsb@John:4:35 @ »Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest.

nsb@John:4:36 @ »He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

nsb@John:4:37 @ »That saying is true. One sows and another reaps.

nsb@John:4:38 @ »I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.«

nsb@John:4:39 @ Many Samaritans of that city put faith in him because of what the woman said: »He told me everything I have ever done.«

nsb@John:4:40 @ When the Samaritans came to him they urged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.

nsb@John:4:41 @ Many more believed because of the words he spoke.

nsb@John:4:42 @ They told the woman: »We believe because of what you said and we heard him ourselves. We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world!«

nsb@John:4:43 @ After two days he departed from there and went to Galilee.

nsb@John:4:44 @ Jesus testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

nsb@John:4:45 @ The Galileans welcomed him. They saw all the things he did at the feast in Jerusalem for they were at the feast.

nsb@John:4:46 @ Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee where he turned the water into wine. There was a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

nsb@John:4:47 @ He heard that Jesus came from Judea into Galilee. He went to him and urged him to come see his son. His son was near death.

nsb@John:4:48 @ »Until you see signs and wonders you will not believe,« Jesus said.

nsb@John:4:49 @ The nobleman said: »Sir, come or my child would die.«

nsb@John:4:50 @ Jesus replied: »Go your way. Your son lives!« The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

nsb@John:4:51 @ His servants met him as he returned and said: »Your son is alive!«

nsb@John:4:52 @ He asked them about the hour he was healed. They said: »Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.«

nsb@John:4:53 @ The father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said: »Your son lives.« He and his entire household believed.

nsb@John:4:54 @ This is the second miracle that Jesus did when he came out of Judea into Galilee.