1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee. 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered 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 living water."

11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

17 The woman answered, "I have no husband."

Jesus said to her, "You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

27 Just then, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, 29 "Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?" 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don’t know about."

33 The disciples therefore said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I have done." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

49 The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

50 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to 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 to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

1 Toe die Here dan verneem dat die Fariseërs gehoor het dat Jesus meer dissipels maak en doop as Johannes --

2 alhoewel Jesus self nie gedoop het nie, maar sy dissipels --

3 het Hy Judiaverlaat en weer na Galil,a gegaan.

4 En Hy moes deur Samar¡a gaan.

5 Hy kom toe by 'n stad van Samar¡a wat S¡gar genoem word, naby die stuk grond wat Jakob aan sy seun Josef gegee het.

6 En die fontein van Jakob was daar. Jesus het toe, omdat Hy moeg was van die reis, somaar by die fontein gaan sit. Dit was omtrent die sesde uur.

7 Daar kom 'n vrou uit Samar¡a om water te skep. Jesus sê vir haar: Gee vir My water om te drink --

8 want sy dissipels het na die stad gegaan om voedsel te koop.

9 En die Samaritaanse vrou sê vir Hom: Hoe is dit dat U wat 'n Jood is, van my vra om te drink terwyl ek 'n Samaritaanse vrou is? Want die Jode hou geen gemeenskap met die Samaritane nie.

10 Jesus antwoord en sê vir haar: As jy die gawe van God geken het en geweet het wie Hy is wat vir jou sê: Gee vir My water om te drink, sou jy Hom gevra het en Hy sou vir jou lewende water gegee het.

11 Die vrou sê vir Hom: Here, U het nie eens 'n skepding nie, en die put is diep; waarvandaan kry U dan die lewende water?

12 U is tog nie groter as ons vader Jakob nie, wat die put aan ons gegee het en self daaruit gedrink het, en sy seuns en sy vee?

13 Jesus antwoord en sê vir haar: Elkeen wat van hierdie water drink, sal weer dors kry;

14 maar elkeen wat drink van die water wat Ek hom sal gee, sal in ewigheid nooit dors kry nie, maar die water wat Ek hom sal gee, sal in hom word 'n fontein van water wat opspring tot in die ewige lewe.

15 Die vrou sê vir Hom: Here, gee my daardie water, sodat ek nie dors kry en hier hoef te kom skep nie.

16 Jesus sê vir haar: Gaan roep jou man en kom hier.

17 Die vrou antwoord en sê: Ek het nie 'n man nie. Jesus sê vir haar: Jy het reg gesê: Ek het nie 'n man nie;

18 want jy het vyf mans gehad; en die een wat jy nou het, is nie jou man nie. Dit het jy met waarheid gesê.

19 Die vrou sê vir Hom: Here, ek sien dat U 'n profeet is.

20 Ons vaders het op hierdie berg aanbid, en julle sê dat die plek waar ons behoort te aanbid, in Jerusalem is.

21 Jesus sê vir haar: Vrou, glo My, daar kom 'n uur wanneer julle nie op hierdie berg en ook nie in Jerusalem die Vader sal aanbid nie.

22 Julle aanbid wat julle nie weet nie; ons aanbid wat ons weet, want die saligheid is uit die Jode.

23 Maar daar kom 'n uur, en dit is nou, wanneer die ware aanbidders die Vader in gees en waarheid sal aanbid; want die Vader soek ook mense wat Hom so aanbid.

24 God is Gees; en die wat Hom aanbid, moet in gees en waarheid aanbid.

25 Die vrou sê vir Hom: Ek weet dat die Mess¡as kom, Hy wat Christus genoem word. Wanneer Hy kom, sal Hy ons alles verkondig.

26 Jesus sê vir haar: Dit is Ek wat met jou spreek!

27 En op die oomblik het sy dissipels gekom en hulle verwonder dat Hy met 'n vrou in gesprek was. Tog het niemand gesê: Wat verlang U nie? of: Waarom spreek U met haar?

28 Die vrou het toe haar waterkan laat staan en na die stad gegaan en vir die mense gesê:

29 Kom kyk 'n man wat my alles vertel het wat ek gedoen het. Is Hy nie miskien die Christus nie?

30 Hulle het toe uit die stad gegaan en na Hom gekom.

31 En intussen het sy dissipels by Hom aangedring en gesê: Rabbi, eet.

32 Maar Hy sê vir hulle: Ek het voedsel om te eet waar julle nie van weet nie.

33 Die dissipels sê toe vir mekaar: Het iemand dan vir Hom ete gebring?

34 Jesus sê vir hulle: My voedsel is om die wil te doen van Hom wat My gestuur het en om sy werk te volbring.

35 Sê julle nie: Dit is nog vier maande, dan kom die oes nie? Kyk, Ek sê vir julle, slaan julle oë op en aanskou die lande dat hulle al wit is vir die oes.

36 En hy wat maai, ontvang loon en vergader vrug vir die ewige lewe, sodat die saaier en die maaier saam bly kan wees.

37 Want hierin is die woord waar: Dit is een wat saai, en 'n ander wat maai.

38 Ek het julle gestuur om te maai waar julle nie aan gewerk het nie. Ander het gewerk, en julle het in hulle arbeid ingegaan.

39 En baie van die Samaritane uit daardie stad het in Hom geglo oor die woord van die vrou wat getuig het: Hy het my alles vertel wat ek gedoen het.

40 Toe die Samaritane dan by Hom kom, het hulle by Hom aangedring om by hulle te bly; en Hy het daar twee dae gebly.

41 En baie meer het op grond van sy woord geglo

42 en aan die vrou gesê: Ons glo nie meer op grond van wat jy gesê het nie, want ons het self gehoor en ons weet dat Hy waarlik die Christus, die Saligmaker van die wêreld, is.

43 En n die twee dae het Hy daarvandaan weggegaan en na Galil,a vertrek.

44 Want Jesus self het getuig dat 'n profeet in sy eie vaderland geen eer ontvang nie.

45 Toe Hy dan in Galil,a kom, het die Galil,ërs Hom ontvang, omdat hulle alles gesien het wat Hy in Jerusalem op die fees gedoen het; want hulle het ook na die fees gegaan.

46 Jesus het dan weer gekom te Kana in Galil,a, waar Hy die water wyn gemaak het. En daar was 'n sekere koninklike beampte wie se seun in Kap,rnam siek was.

47 Toe hy hoor dat Jesus uit Judiain Galil,a gekom het, gaan hy na Hom en vra Hom om af te kom en sy seun gesond te maak, want hy het op sterwe gelê.

48 Jesus sê toe vir hom: As julle nie tekens en wonders sien nie, sal julle nooit glo nie.

49 Die koninklike beampte sê vir Hom: Here, kom af voordat my kind sterwe.

50 Jesus antwoord hom: Gaan, jou seun lewe! En die man het die woord geglo wat Jesus vir hom gesê het, en hy het gegaan.

51 En toe hy al op pad was huis toe, kom sy diensknegte hom tegemoet en bring die berig en sê: U kind lewe!

52 Hy verneem toe van hulle die uur waarop hy beter geword het. En hulle sê vir hom: Gister, die sewende uur, het die koors hom verlaat.

53 Die vader merk toe dat dit daardie uur was waarop Jesus vir hom gesê het: Jou seun lewe! En hy het self geglo en sy hele huis.

54 Hierdie tweede teken weer het Jesus gedoen toe Hy uit Judiain Galil,a gekom het.