The Samaritan woman
- Therefore, when Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,
- (Although Jesus Himself wasn’t baptizing but His disciples were)
- He left Judea and departed again towards Galilee,
- and it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.
- Therefore, He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar near the piece of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
- And Jacob’s well was there, so *tired from the journey, Jesus was sitting wearily on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus tells her: “Give Me water to drink.”
- (For His disciples had departed into the city so they might buy food.)
- So the Samaritan woman says to Him: “How do you – being a Jew – ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman.” (For Jews don’t associate with Samaritans.)
- Jesus answered and told her: “If you had known the gift of God, and who is the One telling you: ‘Give Me water to drink’, you would’ve asked Him and He would’ve given you living water.”
- The woman tells Him: “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket and the well is deep, so from where do you get the living water?
- “You aren’t greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock, are you?”
- Jesus answered and told her: “Every man drinking from this water will thirst again.”
- “But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him definitely won’t thirst through the age. But the water that I will give him will become a spring of water in him welling up into the life of ages.
- The woman tells Him: “Sir, give me this water so I won’t thirst nor travel here to draw water.”
- He tells her: “Go call your husband and come here.”
- The woman answered and told Him: “I don’t have a husband.” Jesus tells her: “You spoke rightly in saying: ‘I don’t have a husband’,
- “for you had five husbands; and he whom you have now isn’t your husband. You have spoken this truly.”
- The woman says to Him: “Sir, I see that you’re a prophet.
- “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you Jews say that the place where it’s necessary to worship is in Jerusalem.”
- Jesus tells her: “Woman, believe Me that an hour comes when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
- “You Samaritans worship what you haven’t known. We Jews worship what we have known, because salvation is from the Jews.
- “But an hour comes and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also seeks such men; the men worshipping Him.
- “God is Spirit, and it’s necessary for the men worshipping Him to worship in spirit and truth.
- The woman tells Him: “I *know that the Messiah is coming; the One called the Anointed. When He comes, He will disclose all things to us.”
- Jesus tells her: “I – the One speaking to you – am He.”
- And His disciples came upon this and were marveling that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said “What do you seek?” or “Why do you speak with her?”
- Therefore the woman left her water jar, and departed into the city, and says to the men:
- “Come see a man who told me all things whatsoever that I did. Can He be the Anointed?”
- They went out of the city and were coming towards Him.
- In the meantime, the disciples were urging Him saying: “Rabbi, eat.”
- But He told them: “I have food to eat that you don’t *know about.”
- So the disciples were saying to one another: “No one brought Him something to eat, did they?”
- Jesus tells them: “My food is that I do the will of the One who sent Me and accomplish His work.
- “Don’t you say that it’s still four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you: lift up your eyes and observe the fields, because they are already white for the harvest.”
- “The man reaping receives a wage and collects fruit for the life of ages, so that the man sowing might rejoice together with the man reaping.
- “For in this the saying is true: “The man sowing is one, and the man reaping is another.”
- “I sent you to reap what you haven’t toiled for. Others have toiled for it, and you have entered into their labor.”
- And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in Him through the report of the woman testifying: “He told me all things whatsoever that I did.”
- So when the Samaritans came to Him they were asking Him to remain with them. And He remained there for two days,
- and many more believed because of His message.
- And they were telling the woman: “We no longer believe just because of your report, for we have heard and we *know that this truly is the savior of the world.”
Healing the royal official’s son
- And after the two days He went out from there into Galilee,
- for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet doesn’t have honor in His own hometown.
- So when He came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the great things He did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they themselves also went to the feast.
- So He went to Cana of Galilee again (where He made the water into wine). And in Capernaum, there was a royal official whose son was sick.
- This man – having heard that Jesus arrives from Judea into Galilee – went to Him and was asking so He might come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
- So Jesus told him: “If you men don’t see signs and wonders, you definitely won’t believe.”
- The royal official says to Him: “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
- Jesus tells him: “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus told him and was going away,
- and while he’s already going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy lives.
- So he inquired from them in what hour he got better. So they told him: “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
- So the father knew that it had happened in that hour which Jesus told him: “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
- And again, this is the second sign Jesus did after having come from Judea into Galilee.