John 4 - 5 — Legacy Standard Bible

Jesus Goes to Galilee

4Therefore when ^aJesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^bbaptizing more disciples than John ²(although ^aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^bdisciples were), ³He left ^aJudea and went away ^bagain into Galilee. ⁴And He had to pass through ^aSamaria. ⁵So He *came to a city of ^aSamaria called Sychar, near ^bthe field that ^cJacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ¹the sixth hour.

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

⁷A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸For His ^adisciples had gone away into ^bthe city to buy food. ⁹Therefore the ^aSamaritan woman *said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For ^bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^aliving water.” ¹¹She *said to Him, “¹Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^aliving water? ¹²“Are You greater than our father Jacob, who ^agave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^awill never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^beternal life.”

¹⁵The woman *said to Him, “¹Sir, ^agive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” ¹⁶He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” ¹⁷The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” ¹⁹The woman *said to Him, “¹Sir, I see that You are ^aa prophet. ²⁰“^aOur fathers worshiped on ^bthis mountain, and you people say that ^cin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” ²¹Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^aan hour is coming when ^bneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²²“^aYou worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^bsalvation is from the Jews. ²³“But ^aan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^bin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴“God is ¹spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^ain spirit and truth.” ²⁵The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^aMessiah is coming (^bHe who is called ¹Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶Jesus *said to her, “^aI who speak to you am He.”

²⁷And at this point His ^adisciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” ²⁸So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, ²⁹“Come, see a man ^awho told me all the things that I have done; ^bis this not the ¹Christ?” ³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “^aRabbi, eat.” ³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³So the ^adisciples were saying to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” ³⁴Jesus *said to them, “My food is to ^ado the will of Him who sent Me and to ^bfinish His work. ³⁵“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^afor harvest. ³⁶“Even now he who reaps is receiving ^awages and is gathering ^bfruit for ^clife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷“For in this case the saying is true, ‘^aOne sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸“I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹From ^athat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “^bHe told me all the things that I have done.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of His word; ⁴²and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly ^athe Savior of the world.”

⁴³And after ^athe two days He went from there into Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus Himself bore witness that ^aa prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^ahaving seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son

⁴⁶Then He came again to ^aCana of Galilee ^bwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^cCapernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come ^aout of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. ⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ¹^,^asigns and ^bwonders, you will never believe.” ⁴⁹The royal official *said to Him, “¹Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus *said to him, “^aGo; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. ⁵¹And while he was still going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ¹son was alive. ⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ¹seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and ^ahis whole household. ⁵⁴This is again a ^asecond ¹sign that Jesus did when He had ^bcome out of Judea into Galilee.

The Healing at Bethesda

5After these things there was ^aa feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is in Jerusalem by ^athe sheep gate a pool, which is called ^bin ¹Hebrew ²Bethesda, having five porticoes. ³In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, ¹[waiting for the moving of the waters; ⁴for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever sickness with which he was afflicted.] ⁵And a man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been sick a long time, He *said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” ⁷The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when ^athe water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” ⁸Jesus *said to him, “^aGet up, pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹And immediately the man became well, and picked up his mat and began to walk. ^aNow it was the Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰So ^athe Jews were saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^bit is not lawful for you to carry your mat.” ¹¹But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” ¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” ¹³But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not ^asin anymore, ^bso that nothing worse happens to you.” ¹⁵The man went away, and disclosed to ^athe Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶And for this reason ^athe Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”

Jesus’ Equality with the Father

¹⁸For this reason therefore ^athe Jews ^bwere seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, ^cmaking Himself equal with God.

¹⁹Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^athe Son can do nothing from Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever ¹the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same manner. ²⁰“^aFor the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him ^bgreater works than these, so that you will marvel. ²¹“For just as the Father raises the dead and ^agives them life, even so ^bthe Son also gives life to whom He wishes. ²²“For not even the Father judges anyone, but ^aHe has given all judgment to the Son, ²³so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. ^aHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and ^abelieves Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and ^bdoes not come into judgment, but has ^cpassed out of death into life.

Two Resurrections

²⁵“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aan hour is coming and now is, when ^bthe dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who ^chear will live. ²⁶“For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He ^agave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷and He gave Him authority to ^aexecute judgment, because He is ¹the Son of Man. ²⁸“Do not marvel at this; for ^aan hour is coming, in which ^ball who are in the tombs will hear His voice, ²⁹and will come forth; ^athose who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

³⁰“^aI can do nothing from Myself. As I hear, I judge; and ^bMy judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but ^cthe will of Him who sent Me.

³¹“^aIf I alone bear witness about Myself, My witness is not ¹true. ³²“There is ^aanother who bears witness about Me, and I know that the witness which He gives about Me is true.

Witnesses to Jesus: The Father and the Scriptures

³³“You have sent to John, and he ^ahas borne witness to the truth. ³⁴“But ^athe witness I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵“He was ^athe lamp that was burning and shining and you ^bwere willing to rejoice for ¹a while in his light. ³⁶“But the witness I have is greater than the witness of John; for ^athe works which the Father has given Me ^bto finish—the very works that I do—bear witness about Me, that the Father ^chas sent Me. ³⁷“And the Father who sent Me, ^aHe has borne witness about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. ³⁸“And you do not have ^aHis word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He ^bsent. ³⁹“¹^,^aYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is ^bthese that bear witness about Me; ⁴⁰and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. ⁴¹“^aI do not receive glory from men; ⁴²but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; ^aif another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴“How can you believe, when you ^areceive ¹glory from one another and you do not seek ^bthe ²glory that is from ^cthe only God? ⁴⁵“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; the one who accuses you is ^aMoses, in whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for ^ahe wrote about Me. ⁴⁷“But ^aif you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”