New American Standard Bible 1995
John 4:7-30
7There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His 1disciples had gone away into 2the city to buy food. 9Therefore the 3Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For 4Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered and said to 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 5living water.” 11She said to Him, “6Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that 7living water? 12You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who 8gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him 9shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to 10eternal life.”
15The woman said to Him, “11Sir, 12give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” 16He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19The woman said to Him, “13Sir, I perceive that You are 14a prophet. 2015Our fathers worshiped in 16this mountain, and you people say that 17in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, 18an hour is coming when 19neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 2220You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for 21salvation is from the Jews. 23But 22an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father 23in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24God is 24spirit, and those who worship Him must worship 25in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to Him, “I know that 26Messiah is coming (27He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “28I who speak to you am He.”
27At this point His 29disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?” 28So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, 29“Come, see a man 30who told me all the things that I have done; 31this is not 32the Christ, is it?” 30They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
Notes
- 1. John 4:8 John 2:2 ↩
- 2. John 4:8 John 4:5, 39 ↩
- 3. John 4:9 Luke 9:52 ↩
- 4. John 4:9 Ezra 4:3-6, 11ff; Matt 10:5; John 8:48; Acts 10:28 ↩
- 5. John 4:10 Jer 2:13; John 4:14; 7:37f; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17 ↩
- 6. John 4:11 Or Lord ↩
- 7. John 4:11 Jer 2:13; John 4:14; 7:37f; Rev 7:17; 21:6; 22:1, 17 ↩
- 8. John 4:12 John 4:6 ↩
- 9. John 4:14 John 6:35; 7:38 ↩
- 10. John 4:14 Matt 25:46; John 6:27 ↩
- 11. John 4:15 Or Lord ↩
- 12. John 4:15 John 6:35 ↩
- 13. John 4:19 Or Lord ↩
- 14. John 4:19 Matt 21:11; Luke 7:16, 39; 24:19; John 6:14; 7:40; 9:17 ↩
- 15. John 4:20 Gen 33:20; John 4:12 ↩
- 16. John 4:20 Deut 11:29; Josh 8:33 ↩
- 17. John 4:20 Luke 9:53 ↩
- 18. John 4:21 John 4:23; 5:25, 28; 16:2, 32 ↩
- 19. John 4:21 Mal 1:11; 1 Tim 2:8 ↩
- 20. John 4:22 2 Kin 17:28-41 ↩
- 21. John 4:22 Is 2:3; Rom 3:1f; 9:4f ↩
- 22. John 4:23 John 4:21; 5:25, 28; 16:2, 32 ↩
- 23. John 4:23 Phil 3:3 ↩
- 24. John 4:24 Or Spirit ↩
- 25. John 4:24 Phil 3:3 ↩
- 26. John 4:25 Dan 9:25; John 1:41 ↩
- 27. John 4:25 Matt 1:16; 27:17, 22; Luke 2:11 ↩
- 28. John 4:26 John 8:24, 28, 58; 9:37; 13:19 ↩
- 29. John 4:27 John 4:8 ↩
- 30. John 4:29 John 4:17f ↩
- 31. John 4:29 Matt 12:23; John 7:26, 31 ↩
- 32. John 4:29 I.e. the Messiah ↩
Commentaries on John 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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