New English Translation
John 4:9-22
9So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
12Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
13Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
14But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”
17The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’
18for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
19The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
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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