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John 2-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible

The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place in Cana(A) of Galilee.(B) Jesus’ mother(C) was there, and 2 Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

4 “What has this concern of yours to do with Me,[a](D) woman?”(E) Jesus asked. “My hour[b] has not yet come.”

5 “Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

6 Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.(F) Each contained 20 or 30 gallons.[c]

7 “Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.”[d] And they did.

9 When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10 and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

11 Jesus performed this first sign[e] in Cana(G) of Galilee.(H) He displayed(I) His glory,(J) and His disciples believed in Him.

12 After this, He went down to Capernaum,(K) together with His mother, His brothers,(L) and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Cleansing the Temple Complex

13 The Jewish Passover(M) was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(N) 14 In the temple complex(O) He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there. 15 After making a whip out of cords,(P) He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep(Q) and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. 16 He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s(R) house(S) into a marketplace!”[f](T)

17 And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal(U) for Your house will consume(V) Me.(W)[g]

18 So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary,(X) and I will raise it up in three days.”(Y)

20 Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”(Z)

21 But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.(AA) 22 So when He was raised from the dead,(AB) His disciples remembered that He had said this.(AC) And they believed the Scripture(AD) and the statement Jesus had made.

23 While He was in Jerusalem(AE) at the Passover Festival,(AF) many trusted in His name(AG) when they saw the signs He was doing. 24 Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all 25 and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.(AH)

Jesus and Nicodemus

3 There was a man from the Pharisees(AI) named Nicodemus,(AJ) a ruler(AK) of the Jews. 2 This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi,(AL) we know that You have come from God(AM) as a teacher,(AN) for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”(AO)

3 Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again,[h](AP) he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(AQ)

4 “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born(AR) of water and the Spirit,[i](AS) he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 Whatever is born of the flesh(AT) is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit(AU) is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I told you that you[j] must be born(AV) again. 8 The wind[k] blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.(AW) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”(AX)

9 “How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

10 “Are you a teacher[l] of Israel and don’t know these things?” Jesus replied. 11 “I assure you:(AY) We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you[m] do not accept Our testimony.[n] 12 If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven? 13 No one has ascended(AZ) into heaven(BA) except the One who descended from heaven(BB)—the Son of Man.[o](BC) 14 Just as Moses(BD) lifted up the snake in the wilderness,(BE) so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in Him will[p] have eternal life.(BF)

16 “For God loved(BG) the world in this way:[q] He gave His One and Only(BH) Son,(BI) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.(BJ) 17 For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn(BK) the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,(BL) because he has not believed in the name(BM) of the One and Only Son(BN) of God.

19 “This, then, is the judgment: The light(BO) has come into the world,(BP) and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who practices wicked things hates(BQ) the light and avoids it,[r] so that his deeds(BR) may not be exposed. 21 But anyone who lives by[s] the truth comes to the light, so that his works(BS) may be shown to be accomplished by God.”[t]

Jesus and John the Baptist

22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized. 23 John(BT) also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized, 24 since John had not yet been thrown into prison.(BU)

25 Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples(BV) and a Jew[u] about purification.(BW) 26 So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi,(BX) the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan,(BY) is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”(BZ)

27 John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,(CA) but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’(CB) 29 He who has the bride(CC) is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly[v] at the groom’s voice. So this joy(CD) of mine is complete. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The One from Heaven

31 The One who comes from above(CE) is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms.[w] The One who comes from heaven is above all.(CF) 32 He testifies(CG) to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony. 33 The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.(CH) 34 For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He[x] gives the Spirit(CI) without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son(CJ) and has given all things into His hands.(CK) 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.(CL)

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

4 When Jesus[y] knew that the Pharisees(CM) heard He was making(CN) and baptizing more disciples than John(CO) 2 (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), 3 He left Judea(CP) and went again to Galilee.(CQ) 4 He had to travel through Samaria,(CR) 5 so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[z] that Jacob(CS) had given his son Joseph.(CT) 6 Jacob’s well(CU) was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.[aa]

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.(CV)

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8 for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9 “How is it that You, a Jew,(CW) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan(CX) woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with[ab] Samaritans.[ac]

10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God,(CY) and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”(CZ)

11 “Sir,”(DA) said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,(DB) are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever!(DC) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well[ad](DD) of water springing up within him for eternal life.”(DE)

15 “Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

16 “Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said. 18 “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,[ae](DF) yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”(DG)

21 Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans[af] worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.(DH) 23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,(DI) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. 24 God is spirit,(DJ) and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”(DK)

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah[ag](DL) is coming” (who is called Christ(DM)). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

26 “I am He,”(DN) Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

The Ripened Harvest

27 Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”(DO) 30 They left the town and made their way to Him.(DP)

31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi,(DQ) eat something.”

32 But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33 The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

34 “My food is to do the will of Him(DR) who sent Me(DS) and to finish His work,”(DT) Jesus told them. 35 “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open[ah] your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready[ai] for harvest. 36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,(DU) so the sower and reaper can rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’(DV) 38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from[aj] their labor.”

The Savior of the World

39 Now many Samaritans(DW) from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said[ak] when she testified,(DX) “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him,(DY) they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of what He said.[al] 42 And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior(DZ) of the world.”[am]

A Galilean Welcome

43 After two days He left there for Galilee.(EA) 44 Jesus Himself testified(EB) that a prophet has no honor in his own country.(EC) 45 When(ED) they entered Galilee, the Galileans(EE) welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem(EF) during the festival.(EG) For they also had gone to the festival.

The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son

46 Then He went again to Cana(EH) of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.(EI) 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea(EJ) into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

48 Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,(EK) you will not believe.”(EL)

49 “Sir,”(EM) the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

50 “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what[an] Jesus said to him and departed.

51 While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive. 52 He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning[ao] the fever left him,” they answered. 53 The father(EN) realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

54 This, therefore, was the second sign(EO) Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.(EP)

Footnotes

  1. John 2:4 Or You and I see things differently; lit What to Me and to you; Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 8:28
  2. John 2:4 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 7:30; 8:20; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1
  3. John 2:6 Lit 2 or 3 measures
  4. John 2:8 Lit ruler of the table; perhaps master of the feast, or headwaiter
  5. John 2:11 Lit this beginning of the signs; Jn 4:54; 20:30. Seven miraculous signs occur in John’s Gospel and are so noted in the headings.
  6. John 2:16 Lit a house of business
  7. John 2:17 Ps 69:9
  8. John 3:3 The same Gk word can mean again or from above (also in v. 7).
  9. John 3:5 Or spirit, or wind; the Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context.
  10. John 3:7 The pronoun is pl in Gk.
  11. John 3:8 The Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context.
  12. John 3:10 Or the teacher
  13. John 3:11 In Gk, the word you is pl here and throughout v. 12.
  14. John 3:11 The pronouns we and our refer to Jesus and His authority to speak for the Father.
  15. John 3:13 Other mss add who is in heaven
  16. John 3:15 Other mss add not perish, but
  17. John 3:16 The Gk word houtos, commonly translated in Jn 3:16 as “so” or “so much” occurs over 200 times in the NT. Almost without exception it is an adverb of manner, not degree (for example, see Mt 1:18). It only means “so much” when modifying an adjective (see Gl 3:3; Rv 16:18). Manner seems primarily in view in Jn 3:16, which explains the HCSB‘s rendering.
  18. John 3:20 Lit and does not come to the light
  19. John 3:21 Lit who does
  20. John 3:21 It is possible that Jesus’ words end at v. 15. Ancient Gk did not have quotation marks.
  21. John 3:25 Other mss read and the Jews
  22. John 3:29 Lit with joy rejoices
  23. John 3:31 Or of earthly things
  24. John 3:34 Other mss read since God
  25. John 4:1 Other mss read the Lord
  26. John 4:5 Lit piece of land
  27. John 4:6 Lit the sixth hour; see note at Jn 1:39; an alt. time reckoning would be noon
  28. John 4:9 Or do not share vessels with
  29. John 4:9 Other mss omit For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
  30. John 4:14 Or spring
  31. John 4:20 Mount Gerizim, where there had been a Samaritan temple that rivaled Jerusalem’s
  32. John 4:22 Samaritans is implied since the Gk verb and pronoun are pl.
  33. John 4:25 In the NT, the word Messiah translates the Gk word Christos (“Anointed One”), except here and in Jn 1:41 where it translates Messias.
  34. John 4:35 Lit Raise
  35. John 4:35 Lit white
  36. John 4:38 Lit you have entered into
  37. John 4:39 Lit because of the woman’s word
  38. John 4:41 Lit because of His word
  39. John 4:42 Other mss add the Messiah
  40. John 4:50 Lit the word
  41. John 4:52 Or seven in the evening; lit at the seventh hour; see note at Jn 1:39; an alt time reckoning would be at one in the afternoon
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John 2-4
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Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.(A) Jesus’ mother(B) was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman,[a](C) why do you involve me?”(D) Jesus replied. “My hour(E) has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”(F)

6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,(G) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[b]

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.(H) He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs(I) through which he revealed his glory;(J) and his disciples believed in him.(K)

12 After this he went down to Capernaum(L) with his mother(M) and brothers(N) and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

Jesus Clears the Temple Courts(O)

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,(P) Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(Q) 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves,(R) and others sitting at tables exchanging money.(S) 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house(T) into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”[c](U)

18 The Jews(V) then responded to him, “What sign(W) can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”(X)

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”(Y)

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.(Z) 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.(AA) Then they believed the scripture(AB) and the words that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,(AC) many people saw the signs(AD) he was performing and believed(AE) in his name.[d] 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not need any testimony about mankind,(AF) for he knew what was in each person.(AG)

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus(AH) who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.(AI) 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi,(AJ) we know(AK) that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs(AL) you are doing if God were not with him.”(AM)

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.[e]”(AN)

4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.(AO) 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[f] gives birth to spirit.(AP) 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[g] must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[h](AQ)

9 “How can this be?”(AR) Nicodemus asked.

10 “You are Israel’s teacher,”(AS) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,(AT) and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.(AU) 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven(AV) except the one who came from heaven(AW)—the Son of Man.[i](AX) 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,(AY) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,[j](AZ) 15 that everyone who believes(BA) may have eternal life in him.”[k](BB)

16 For God so loved(BC) the world that he gave(BD) his one and only Son,(BE) that whoever believes(BF) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.(BG) 17 For God did not send his Son into the world(BH) to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.(BI) 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,(BJ) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.(BK) 19 This is the verdict: Light(BL) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.(BM) 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(BN) 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John Testifies Again About Jesus

22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.(BO) 23 Now John(BP) also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. 24 (This was before John was put in prison.)(BQ) 25 An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.(BR) 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi,(BS) that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified(BT) about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”

27 To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’(BU) 29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom.(BV) The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.(BW) 30 He must become greater; I must become less.”[l]

31 The one who comes from above(BX) is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth.(BY) The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard,(BZ) but no one accepts his testimony.(CA) 33 Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has sent(CB) speaks the words of God, for God[m] gives the Spirit(CC) without limit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.(CD) 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life,(CE) but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(CF)— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea(CG) and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.(CH) 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(CI) 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?”(CJ) 8 (His disciples had gone into the town(CK) to buy food.)

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

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.”(CM)

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(CN) 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.(CO) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(CP) welling up to eternal life.”(CQ)

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty(CR) 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.(CS) 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,(CT) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”(CU)

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming(CV) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(CW) 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know;(CX) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.(CY) 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come(CZ) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit(DA) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,(DB) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

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

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”(DD)

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

27 Just then his disciples returned(DE) 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.(DF) Could this be the Messiah?”(DG) 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,(DH) eat something.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat(DI) 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(DJ) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(DK) 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.(DL) 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests(DM) a crop for eternal life,(DN) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’(DO) 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.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town(DP) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”(DQ) 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.”(DR)

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

43 After the two days(DS) he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)(DT) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,(DU) for they also had been there.

46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.(DV) 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,(DW) 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,”(DX) 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(DY) believed.

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

Footnotes

  1. John 2:4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect.
  2. John 2:6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters
  3. John 2:17 Psalm 69:9
  4. John 2:23 Or in him
  5. John 3:3 The Greek for again also means from above; also in verse 7.
  6. John 3:6 Or but spirit
  7. John 3:7 The Greek is plural.
  8. John 3:8 The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.
  9. John 3:13 Some manuscripts Man, who is in heaven
  10. John 3:14 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.
  11. John 3:15 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.
  12. John 3:30 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 36.
  13. John 3:34 Greek he
  14. John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used
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