1 Quando, pois, o Senhor veio a saber que os fariseus tinham ouvido dizer que ele, Jesus, fazia e batizava mais discípulos que João 2 (se bem que Jesus mesmo não batizava, e sim os seus discípulos), 3 deixou a Judeia, retirando-se outra vez para a Galileia. 4 E era-lhe necessário atravessar a província de Samaria. 5 Chegou, pois, a uma cidade samaritana, chamada Sicar, perto das terras que Jacó dera a seu filho José. 6 Estava ali a fonte de Jacó. Cansado da viagem, assentara-se Jesus junto à fonte, por volta da hora sexta.

7 Nisto, veio uma mulher samaritana tirar água. Disse-lhe Jesus: Dá-me de beber. 8 Pois seus discípulos tinham ido à cidade para comprar alimentos. 9 Então, lhe disse a mulher samaritana: Como, sendo tu judeu, pedes de beber a mim, que sou mulher samaritana (porque os judeus não se dão com os samaritanos )? 10 Replicou-lhe Jesus: Se conheceras o dom de Deus e quem é o que te pede: dá-me de beber, tu lhe pedirias, e ele te daria água viva. 11 Respondeu-lhe ela: Senhor, tu não tens com que a tirar, e o poço é fundo; onde, pois, tens a água viva? 12 És tu, porventura, maior do que Jacó, o nosso pai, que nos deu o poço, do qual ele mesmo bebeu, e, bem assim, seus filhos, e seu gado? 13 Afirmou-lhe Jesus: Quem beber desta água tornará a ter sede; 14 aquele, porém, que beber da água que eu lhe der nunca mais terá sede; pelo contrário, a água que eu lhe der será nele uma fonte a jorrar para a vida eterna. 15 Disse-lhe a mulher: Senhor, dá-me dessa água para que eu não mais tenha sede, nem precise vir aqui buscá-la. 16 Disse-lhe Jesus: Vai, chama teu marido e vem cá; 17 ao que lhe respondeu a mulher: Não tenho marido. Replicou-lhe Jesus: Bem disseste, não tenho marido; 18 porque cinco maridos já tiveste, e esse que agora tens não é teu marido; isto disseste com verdade.

19 Senhor, disse-lhe a mulher, vejo que tu és profeta. 20 Nossos pais adoravam neste monte; vós, entretanto, dizeis que em Jerusalém é o lugar onde se deve adorar. 21 Disse-lhe Jesus: Mulher, podes crer-me que a hora vem, quando nem neste monte, nem em Jerusalém adorareis o Pai. 22 Vós adorais o que não conheceis; nós adoramos o que conhecemos, porque a salvação vem dos judeus. 23 Mas vem a hora e já chegou, em que os verdadeiros adoradores adorarão o Pai em espírito e em verdade; porque são estes que o Pai procura para seus adoradores. 24 Deus é espírito; e importa que os seus adoradores o adorem em espírito e em verdade. 25 Eu sei, respondeu a mulher, que há de vir o Messias, chamado Cristo; quando ele vier, nos anunciará todas as coisas. 26 Disse-lhe Jesus: Eu o sou, eu que falo contigo. 27 Neste ponto, chegaram os seus discípulos e se admiraram de que estivesse falando com uma mulher; todavia, nenhum lhe disse: Que perguntas? Ou: Por que falas com ela? 28 Quanto à mulher, deixou o seu cântaro, foi à cidade e disse àqueles homens: 29 Vinde comigo e vede um homem que me disse tudo quanto tenho feito. Será este, porventura, o Cristo?! 30 Saíram, pois, da cidade e vieram ter com ele.

31 Nesse ínterim, os discípulos lhe rogavam, dizendo: Mestre, come! 32 Mas ele lhes disse: Uma comida tenho para comer, que vós não conheceis. 33 Diziam, então, os discípulos uns aos outros: Ter-lhe-ia, porventura, alguém trazido o que comer? 34 Disse-lhes Jesus: A minha comida consiste em fazer a vontade daquele que me enviou e realizar a sua obra. 35 Não dizeis vós que ainda há quatro meses até à ceifa? Eu, porém, vos digo: erguei os olhos e vede os campos, pois já branquejam para a ceifa. 36 O ceifeiro recebe desde já a recompensa e entesoura o seu fruto para a vida eterna; e, dessarte, se alegram tanto o semeador como o ceifeiro. 37 Pois, no caso, é verdadeiro o ditado: Um é o semeador, e outro é o ceifeiro. 38 Eu vos enviei para ceifar o que não semeastes; outros trabalharam, e vós entrastes no seu trabalho.

39 Muitos samaritanos daquela cidade creram nele, em virtude do testemunho da mulher, que anunciara: Ele me disse tudo quanto tenho feito. 40 Vindo, pois, os samaritanos ter com Jesus, pediam-lhe que permanecesse com eles; e ficou ali dois dias. 41 Muitos outros creram nele, por causa da sua palavra, 42 e diziam à mulher: Já agora não é pelo que disseste que nós cremos; mas porque nós mesmos temos ouvido e sabemos que este é verdadeiramente o Salvador do mundo.

43 Passados dois dias, partiu dali para a Galileia. 44 Porque o mesmo Jesus testemunhou que um profeta não tem honras na sua própria terra. 45 Assim, quando chegou à Galileia, os galileus o receberam, porque viram todas as coisas que ele fizera em Jerusalém, por ocasião da festa, à qual eles também tinham comparecido.

46 Dirigiu-se, de novo, a Caná da Galileia, onde da água fizera vinho. Ora, havia um oficial do rei, cujo filho estava doente em Cafarnaum. 47 Tendo ouvido dizer que Jesus viera da Judeia para a Galileia, foi ter com ele e lhe rogou que descesse para curar seu filho, que estava à morte. 48 Então, Jesus lhe disse: Se, porventura, não virdes sinais e prodígios, de modo nenhum crereis. 49 Rogou-lhe o oficial: Senhor, desce, antes que meu filho morra. 50 Vai, disse-lhe Jesus; teu filho vive. O homem creu na palavra de Jesus e partiu. 51 Já ele descia, quando os seus servos lhe vieram ao encontro, anunciando-lhe que o seu filho vivia. 52 Então, indagou deles a que hora o seu filho se sentira melhor. Informaram: Ontem, à hora sétima a febre o deixou. 53 Com isto, reconheceu o pai ser aquela precisamente a hora em que Jesus lhe dissera: Teu filho vive; e creu ele e toda a sua casa. 54 Foi este o segundo sinal que fez Jesus, depois de vir da Judeia para a Galileia.

1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), 3 he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. 4 And he must needs pass through Samaria. 5 So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: 6 and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17 The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: 18 for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. 22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

27 And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her? 28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people, 29 Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ? 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him. 31 In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest. 36 He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word; 42 and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

43 And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

46 He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe. 49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. 50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judæa into Galilee.

1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John —

2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"

8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ")

10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

17 "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.

18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."

19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.

20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

21 "Woman," Jesus replied, "believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."

25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

26 Then Jesus declared, "I, the one speaking to you —I am he."

27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,

29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?"

30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"

34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

35 Don't you have a saying, 'It's still four months until harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.

38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

41 And because of his words many more became believers.

42 They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

43 After the two days he left for Galilee.

44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

48 "Unless you people see signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."

49 The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

50 "Go," Jesus replied, "your son will live." The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.

52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him."

53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and his whole household believed.

54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.