KJ3 Literal Translation
John 4
1 Christ talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals Himself to her. 27 His disciples marvel. 39 Many Samaritans believe inin Him. 43 He heals the ruler’s son.
1Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making more disciples and baptizing more than John
2(though truly Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),
3He left Judea and went away into Galilee again.
4And it was needful for Him to pass through Samaria.
5And He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the piece of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6And Jacob’s well was there. Then being wearied by the journey, Jesus sat thus on the well. The hour was about the sixth.
7A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me to drink.
8For His disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy foods.
9Then woman said to Him the woman, the Samaritan, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, I being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not use things together with Samaritans.
10Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.
11The woman said to Him, Sir, You have no thing to draw with. From where, then, do You have living water?
12Not You are greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and he drank out of it, and his sons and his livestock also?
13Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;
14but whoever may drink of the water which I will give him will not thirst, not ever! But the water which I will give to him will become a fountain of water in him, springing up into everlasting life.
15The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.
16Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come here.
17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Well did you say, I have no husband.
18For you have had five husbands, and now he whom you have is not your husband. This thing truly you have said.
19The woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.
21Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is of the Jews.
23But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such, the ones worshiping Him.
24God is spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth.
25The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, the One being called Christ. When that One comes, He will announce to us all things.
26Jesus said to her, I AM! the One speaking to you.
27And upon this, His disciples came and marveled that He was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, What do You seek? Or, Why do You speak with her?
28Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city and says to the men,
29Come, see a Man who told me all things, as many as I did. Is not this the Christ?
30Therefore they went out from the city and were coming to Him.
31But in the meantime the disciples were as King Him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
32But He said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know.
33Then the disciples said to one another, Not did someone bring Him food to eat?
34Jesus said to them, My food is that I should do the will of Him having sent Me, and that I may finish His work.
35Do you not say, It is yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
36And the one reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to everlasting life, so that both the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together.
37For in this the word is true, that another is the one sowing, and another the one reaping.
38I sent you to reap what you have not labored over. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
39And many of the Samaritans out of that city believed into Him, because of the word of the woman testifying, He told me all things, as many as I did.
40Then as the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them. And He remained there two days.
41And many more believed through His Word.
42And they were saying to the woman, We no longer believe because of your speech; for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this One is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.
43But after the two days, He went out from there, and He went into Galilee.
44For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.
45Then when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, seeing all things which He did in Jerusalem at the Feast. For they also went to the Feast.
46Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He made the water wine. And there was a certain royal nobleman whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47This one, hearing that Jesus has come from Judea into Galilee, went out to Him and asked Him that He would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see miraculous signs and wonders, you will not believe, not ever.
49The royal nobleman said to Him, Sir, come down before my child dies.
50Jesus said to him, Go! Your son lives. And the man believed the Word which Jesus said to him, and went away.
51But already, as he was going down, his slaves met him and reported, saying, Your child lives.
52He then asked from them the hour in which he had become better. And they said to him, Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
53Then the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and his whole household, believed.
54This, again, is the second miraculous sign Jesus did, coming from Judea into Galilee.
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