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4:1 Yeshua chats with a woman at the well
4 When Yeshua found out that the Pharisee party knew that he was gaining and immersing more followers than Yohan had, 2 (although actually it wasn’t Yeshua himself that was immersing them, but his trainees that were doing it), 3 he left Yudea and went back up to Galilee. 4 On the way up, he decided to go through Samaria (Heb. Shomron).
5 [ref]By choosing that route, they came to a town in Samaria called Sukar, which was near the place that the patriarch Yosef had inherited from his father Yacob, 6 and Yacob’s well was there. Yeshua was tired from all the walking and was sitting by the well around midday.
7 A woman came from the town to get water from the well, and Yeshua asked her for a drink 8 since his followers had gone into the town to buy some lunch.
9 [ref]The woman said to him, “You’re a Jew. How come you’re asking me for a drink when I’m from Samaria?” (Jews don’t normally associate with anyone from Samaria.)
10 Yeshua answered, “If you had recognised God’s gift and who it is who’s asking you for a drink, you would have asked me and I would have given you living water to drink.”
11 But the woman countered, “Mister, you don’t even have rope and a bucket to reach the water in the deep well. How then could you get ‘living water’? 12 I doubt that you’re greater than our ancestor Yacob who made this well for us and drank this water along with his children and his animals.”
13 Yeshua responded, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water that I give them will find a well springing up inside them—springing into eternal life.”
15 So the woman said, “Ok, then. Give me some of that water so that I won’t get thirsty and won’t have to keep coming out here to the well.”
16 Yeshua said, “First, go and get your husband and return here.”
17 “I don’t have a husband!” she retorted.
“True enough—indeed you don’t,” Yeshua said. 18 “You’ve had five husbands and you’re not married to the man you’re living with, so that was true.”
19 “Mister, I can see that you’re a prophet,” the woman reacted. 20 “Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that people should only worship there in Yerushalem.”
21 Then Yeshua told her, “You need to believe that I was sent from God, woman, because a day is coming when everyone will be worshipping him neither on this mountain, nor in Yerushalem. 22 You people in Samaria don’t even know who you worship, but we do, because people will be saved by means of us Jews. 23 But a time is coming, starting even now, when the true worshippers will be worshipping the father in spirit and truth, because those are the ones that he is wanting to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and the ones worshipping him must worship in spirit and total honesty.”
25 The woman said, “I’m aware that the messiah is coming—the chosen one of God. Whenever he appears, he’ll teach us everything.”
26 “I am the messiah,” Yeshua responded. “Yes, he’s speaking to you!”
27 After this, his followers arrived back, and they were astounded that he was speaking with a woman. However no one dared ask her, “What are you after?” Or to ask him, “Why are you talking with her?”
28 So the woman left her water jar there, and went back into the town where she told the people, 29 “Come and see a man who knew as much about me as I know myself! He must be the messiah!” 30 So they went out from the town to go and see Yeshua.
31 Meanwhile, Yeshua’s followers encouraged him, “Teacher, here, eat.”
32 But he said, “I’ve had food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 This made his followers ask each other, “Did you see anyone bring him something to eat?”
34 “Obeying God who sent me is like food to me, and I plan to finish his work,” Yeshua explained. 35 “Don’t you all have a saying about needing to wait four months for a harvest? But I’m telling you that you all should open your eyes and look at the fields, because they’re already lightening up as harvest time approaches. 36 The harvester gets paid with a harvest that will last forever so that the ones who plant and the ones who harvest can all celebrate. 37 There’s truth in the statement that one person plants and a different person harvests. 38 I’ve sent you all out to harvest where you haven’t worked before—others did the groundwork and you benefit from their work.”
39 And many people of Samaria came out of that town and believed that Yeshua is God because the woman had told them that he knew everything about her. 40 So when they all came, they asked him to stay in their town and they stayed on there for a couple of days.
41 As a result of his teaching, many more believed 42 so then they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said, but now that we’ve heard him for ourselves, we can see that he really is the saviour of the world.”
4:43 Yeshua heals the official’s son
43 After his two days in Samaria, Yeshua continued on up to Galilee. 44 [ref]He himself had told them that no prophet gets honoured in his own home town. 45 [ref]When he got to Galilee, the people accepted him, having seen everything that he’d done at the feast in Yerushalem because they had also been down there.
46 [ref]So he went again to Cana there in Galilee where he had made the water into wine. Now there was a royal official there, whose son in Capernaum was ill. 47 When the official heard that Yeshua was coming up from Yudea to Galilee, he went and asked him if he would come and heal his son who was dying. 48 Yeshua said to him, “You people won’t believe unless you see miracles and other marvels.”
49 But the official begged him, “Sir, please come before my child dies.”
50 “Go back there and see,” Yeshua responded. “Your son will recover.”
The man believed what Yeshua had told him, and so he started off. 51 On his way, his slaves met him and reported that the boy was alive and well.
52 So the official asked them what time it was that he got better, and they replied that the fever had subsided around 1pm. 53 The father knew that that was the time when Yeshua had told him that his son would recover, and as a result his whole household believed that Yeshua came from God.
54 This was the second miracle that Yeshua did after leaving Yudea and going to Galilee.
John 4
As the story of Jesus’ encounter with a Samaritan woman demonstrates, even simple geography–the divine arrangement of places where God leads us in life–can position us for fruitful ministry if we are willing to reach out to those along our journey. This episode in Jesus’ ministry occurred immediately after Jesus had cleared the Temple in Jerusalem and was gaining even more followers than John the Baptist (John 2:13-25; 4:1-3). Likely wanting to avoid a direct clash with Jewish leadership so early in his ministry, Jesus chose instead to return to Galilee. The most direct route from Jerusalem to Galilee passed through Samaria, and, as the Jewish historian Josephus notes, this was the route normally chosen by most Jews at the time (Antiquities of the Jews, Book XX:6). The city of Samaria (renamed Sebaste by Jesus’ time) was originally the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, but in 722 B.C. the Assyrians exiled many Israelites to other parts of their empire and relocated other foreign peoples in Israel (2 Kings 15:29; 17:1-24; 1 Chronicles 5:26; also see “Israelites Are Exiled to Assyria”). This diverse population then developed a new religion that mixed elements of Israelite worship with pagan worship (2 Kings 17:24-41), and centuries later they set up their own temple on Mount Gerizim. Because of their mixed ancestry and religion, Samaritans were often detested by many Jews (John 4:9), and hostilities periodically erupted between Jews and Samaritans. Jesus himself would later be refused entry into Samaria while traveling from Galilee to Jerusalem (Luke 9:52-56; also see “Jesus’ Final Journey to Jerusalem”), and Josephus notes that about 20 years after this time a number of Galileans were killed by Samaritans as they attempted to make their way to Jerusalem through the village of Ginae. Probably because of these hostilities, some Jews preferred to take alternate routes that bypassed Samaria. Still other Jews chose these routes to avoid even associating with Samaritans. Jesus, however, appears to have chosen the more direct route through Samaria, which led him to the village of Sychar–right next to the ancient site of Shechem and Mount Gerizim. There he met a Samaritan woman by a well and spoke to her about God’s gift of living water for her soul. He also revealed supernatural knowledge about her, so she asked him whether Mount Gerizim or Jerusalem was the proper place to worship. Jesus gently rebuked her belief in Samaritan worship practices, but he also assured her that one day the physical location of worshipers will no longer matter. Instead, all true believers will worship God in spirit and truth. When Jesus revealed to the woman that he was the Messiah, she left her water jar and told the townspeople about Jesus. Meanwhile, Jesus’ disciples returned, and Jesus urged them to recognize that the fields were ripe for harvesting, presumably meaning that many Samaritans were ready to believe in him. Because of the Samaritan woman’s testimony, many of the townspeople believed in Jesus and persuaded him to stay there two more days before returning to Galilee. Years later the apostle Philip found fruitful ministry among the Samaritans as well, and many came to faith in Jesus (Acts 8:5-13; also see “The Ministries of Philip and Peter”).
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