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OET-RV by cross-referenced section YHN 4:1

YHN 4:1–4:42 ©

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Yeshua chats with a woman at the well

Yhn 4:1–42

4:1 Yeshua chats with a woman at the well

4When 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), 3he left Yudea and went back up to Galilee. 4On the way up, he decided to go through Samaria.

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, 6and Yacob’s well was there. Yeshua was tired from all the walking and was sitting by the well around midday.

7A woman came from the town to get water from the well, and Yeshua asked her for a drink 8since 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.)

10Yeshua 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.

11But 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’? 12I 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.”

13Yeshua responded, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water that I give them will find a well springing up inside them—springing into eternal life.

15So 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.”

16Yeshua 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. 18You’ve had five husbands and you’re not married to the man you’re living with, so that was true.

19Mister, I can see that you’re a prophet,” the woman reacted. 20Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that people should only worship there in Yerushalem.”

21Then 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. 22You people in Samaria don’t even know who you worship, but we do, because people will be saved by means of us Jews. 23But 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. 24God is spirit, and the ones worshipping him must worship in spirit and total honesty.

25The woman said, “I’m aware that the messiah is coming—the chosen one of God. Whenever he appears, he’ll teach us everything.”

26I am the messiah,Yeshua responded. “Yes, he’s speaking to you!

27After 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?”

28So 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!” 30So they went out from the town to go and see Yeshua.

31Meanwhile, Yeshua’s followers encouraged him, “Teacher, here, eat.”

32But he said, “I’ve had food to eat that you don’t know about.

33This made his followers ask each other, “Did you see anyone bring him something to eat?”

34Obeying God who sent me is like food to me, and I plan to finish his work,Yeshua explained. 35Don’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. 36The harvester gets paid with a harvest that will last forever so that the ones who plant and the ones who harvest can all celebrate. 37There’s truth in the statement that one person plants and a different person harvests. 38I’ve sent you all out to harvest where you haven’t worked before—others did the groundwork and you benefit from their work.

39And 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. 40So when they all came, they asked him to stay in their town and they stayed on there for a couple of days.

41As a result of his teaching, many more believed 42so 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.”


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Gen 33:19:

19In due course, he bought the portion of the field where he’d pitched his tents from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shekem, for a hundred pieces of silver.[ref]


33:19: Josh 24:32; Yhn 4:5.

Josh 24:32:

32They buried Yosef’s bones (that they had carried out from Egypt) in Shekem—in the portion of the field that Yacob had bought from the sons of Hamor (Shekem’s father) for a hundred coins, and that land became the inheritance of Yosef’s descendants.[ref]


24:32: Gen 33:19; 50:24-25; Exo 13:19; Yhn 4:5; Acts 7:16.

Est 4:1-5:

4:1 Mordekai asks the queen for help

4When Mordekai found out about what had been done, he tore his clothes and dressed in sackcloth and threw ashes over himself (as a sign of mourning or distress) and went out into the city centre, wailing loudly and bitterly. 2But no one was wearing mourning garb was allowed inside the king’s gate, so when Mordekai reached the gate, he had to stay just outside it. 3In every province of the empire, the letter that said to destroy the Jews was publicly displayed and when the Jews heard about it, they were incredibly upset. They skipped meals and wailed loudly, and many of them also wore sackcloth and threw ashes on themselves and lay on the ground.

4When Queen Esther’s young female attendants came with her guardians and told her what was going on outside, even the queen became very scared. She sent Mordekai some good clothes to wear instead of the sackcloth, but he wouldn’t accept them. 5The king had assigned some of the royal guardians to Esther personally, so Esther called for one of them—a man named Hathak. She told him to go out and speak with Mordekai and find out what he was so distressed about.

Neh 4:1-2:

4:1 The opposition to Nihimiyas

4 2