John · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
John 4 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Cuando Jesús supo que los fariseos oyeron que Jesús hacía más discípulos que Juan y los bautizaba
1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (aunque Jesús mismo no bautizaba, sino sus discípulos),
2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
3 salió de Judea y volvió a Galilea.
3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
4 Y le era necesario pasar por Samaria.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
5 Entonces fue a una ciudad de Samaria llamada Sicar, cerca del campo que Jacob dio a su hijo José.
5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Allí estaba [el] pozo de Jacob. Como a las 12 del mediodía, Jesús, cansado de la jornada, se sentó junto al pozo.
6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 Una mujer de Samaria llegó a sacar agua. Jesús le dijo: Dame de beber.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 Pues sus discípulos habían ido a la ciudad a comprar alimento.
8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Entonces la mujer samaritana le preguntó: ¿Cómo Tú, que eres judío, me pides de beber a mí, que soy samaritana? Porque [los] judíos no se tratan con [los] samaritanos.
9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesús le respondió: Si conocieras el Don de Dios, y Quién es el que te dice: Dame de beber, tú le pedirías, y [Él] te daría agua viva.
10 Jesus answered 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 living water.”
11 Le respondió: Señor, ni vasija tienes, y el pozo es hondo. ¿De dónde sacas el agua viva?
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
12 ¿Eres Tú mayor que nuestro antepasado Jacob, quien nos dio este pozo, del cual él mismo bebió, y sus hijos y sus ganados?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
13 Jesús respondió: Todo el que bebe de esta agua volverá a tener sed,
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 pero el que beba del agua que Yo le dé, de ningún modo tendrá sed jamás. El agua que le dé se convertirá en una fuente de agua que brota en él para vida eterna.
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 La mujer le respondió: Señor, dame esa agua, para que no tenga sed ni venga aquí a sacarla.
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
16 Le dijo: Vé, llama a tu marido y vuelve acá.
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 La mujer respondió: No tengo marido. Jesús le dijo: Bien dijiste: No tengo marido,
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’
18 porque cinco maridos has tenido, y el que tienes ahora no es tu marido. Dijiste la verdad.
18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
19 La mujer le dijo: Señor, me parece que Tú eres Profeta.
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Nuestros antepasados adoraron en la montaña [de Samaria], y ustedes dicen que el lugar donde se debe adorar es Jerusalén.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21 Jesús le respondió: Mujer, créeme que viene una hora cuando ustedes no adorarán al Padre ni en esta montaña ni en Jerusalén.
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22 Ustedes adoran lo que no saben. Nosotros adoramos lo que sabemos, porque la salvación viene de los judíos.
22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
23 Pero la hora viene y ya llegó, cuando los verdaderos adoradores adorarán al Padre en espíritu y verdad. Porque ciertamente el Padre busca que lo adoren así.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
24 Dios es Espíritu. Los que lo adoran, deben adorarlo en espíritu y verdad.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 La mujer le dijo: Sé que viene [el] Mesías, es decir, el Cristo. Cuando Él venga, nos declarará todas las cosas.
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
26 Jesús le respondió: Yo soy, Quien habla contigo.
26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
27 En ese momento llegaron sus discípulos y se asombraron de que hablaba con una mujer, pero nadie le preguntó qué buscaba o qué hablaba con ella.
27 Just then, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”
28 Entonces la mujer dejó su cántaro, fue a la ciudad y dijo a la gente:
28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
29 ¡Vengan! ¡Vean a un Hombre que me dijo todo lo que he hecho! ¿No será Éste el Cristo?
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”
30 [Ellos] salieron de la ciudad y fueron hacia Él.
30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 Entre tanto, los discípulos le rogaban: Maestro, come.
31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 Pero Él les respondió: Yo tengo una comida para comer, de la cual ustedes no saben.
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 Entonces los discípulos se preguntaban unos a otros: ¿Alguien le trajo de comer?
33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesús les respondió: Mi comida es que haga la voluntad del que me envió y cumpla su obra.
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
35 ¿No dicen ustedes: Aún faltan cuatro meses para la cosecha? Ciertamente Yo les digo: Levanten su mirada y vean los campos blancos para la cosecha.
35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
36 El que cosecha recibe salario y recoge fruto para vida eterna. Así el que siembra y el que cosecha se regocijan juntamente.
36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37 En esto es verdadero el dicho: Uno es el que siembra y otro el que cosecha.
37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
38 Yo los envié a cosechar lo que ustedes no sembraron. Otros labraron, y ustedes entraron en su labor.
38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Y muchos de los samaritanos de aquella ciudad creyeron en [Jesús] a causa del testimonio de la mujer, quien decía: ¡Me dijo todo lo que he hecho!
39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”
40 Entonces los samaritanos fueron a Jesús y le rogaban que se quedara con ellos. Y Él se quedó allí dos días.
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
41 Y muchos más creyeron por la Palabra de Él,
41 Many more believed because of his word.
42 y le decían a la mujer: Ya no creemos por lo que dices, sino porque nosotros mismos [lo] oímos. Entendimos que verdaderamente Éste es el Salvador del mundo.
42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
43 Después de dos días [Jesús] salió de allí hacia Galilea,
43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
44 aunque Él mismo testificó que un profeta no es respetado en su propia patria.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 Cuando [Jesús] llegó a Galilea fue bien recibido por los galileos, pues ellos vieron lo que Él hizo durante la fiesta en Jerusalén.
45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46 Volvió a Caná de Galilea, donde había convertido el agua en vino. Y un funcionario real, quien tenía un hijo enfermo, estaba en Cafarnaúm.
46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 Cuando el [funcionario] oyó que Jesús llegó de Judea a Galilea, fue a Él y le rogaba que bajara y sanara a su hijo, quien ya iba a morir.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Jesús le dijo: Ustedes, si no ven señales y prodigios, de ningún modo creerán.
48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
49 El funcionario real le dijo: Señor, baja antes que muera mi hijito.
49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 Jesús le contestó: ¡Vé, tu hijo vive! El hombre creyó la Palabra que Jesús le dijo, y se fue.
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 Mientras bajaba, sus esclavos salieron a encontrarlo y dijeron: ¡Tu niño vive!
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
52 Les preguntó a qué hora comenzó a mejorar, y le contestaron: Ayer a la una de la tarde se le quitó la fiebre.
52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
53 Entonces el padre recordó que a esa hora Jesús le dijo: ¡Tu hijo vive! [Como resultado ]él y toda su casa creyeron en Jesús.
53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
54 Ésta fue la segunda señal que [Jesús] hizo después de ir de Judea a Galilea.
54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
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Cana
Cana's exact site is debated — Kafr Kanna and Khirbet Qana near Nazareth are the leading candidates (approximate location). It is remembered as the place of Jesus' first miracle.
Cited in the guide: John 2:1-11; John 4:46
Shechem
Shechem lay between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. Abram built an altar here, Joshua gathered Israel for covenant renewal, and Jacob's well stands nearby.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12:6; Joshua 24:1; John 4:5
Cross references (52)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 John 3:26; John 3:22; 2 Corinthians 4:5; Luke 1:76; 1 Corinthians 15:47
- 2 1 Corinthians 1:13–17; Acts 10:48
- 3 Matthew 10:23; John 11:54; John 3:22; John 10:40; John 2:11
- 4 Luke 17:11; Luke 9:51–52; Matthew 10:5–6; Luke 2:49
- 5 Joshua 24:32; Genesis 33:19; Genesis 48:22; John 4:12
- 6 Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 2:17; Matthew 8:24; Matthew 4:2; Matthew 27:45
- 7 Matthew 10:42; 1 Kings 17:10; John 19:28; Genesis 24:43; 2 Samuel 23:15–17
- 8 John 6:5–7; Luke 9:13; John 4:39; John 4:5
- 9 Acts 10:28; 2 Kings 17:24–41; Matthew 10:5; John 8:48; Luke 17:16–19
- 10 John 4:14; Revelation 7:17; John 7:37–39; Isaiah 44:3; Revelation 21:6
- 11 1 Corinthians 2:14; John 3:4
- 12 John 8:53; Matthew 12:42; Hebrews 3:3; Isaiah 53:2–3; John 4:6
- 13 John 6:27; Isaiah 65:13–14; Luke 16:24
- 14 John 7:38–39; John 6:35; Isaiah 49:10; Revelation 7:16; Ephesians 1:13–14
- 15 John 6:34; Romans 8:5; Psalm 4:6; James 4:3; John 6:26
- 16 Hebrews 4:13; Revelation 2:23; John 21:17; John 2:24–25; John 4:18
- 18 Jeremiah 3:20; Romans 7:3; 1 Corinthians 7:10–11; Mark 10:12; Genesis 34:7–8
- 19 John 6:14; Luke 7:39; John 9:17; Luke 7:16; John 7:40
- 20 Deuteronomy 12:5–11; Genesis 33:18–20; 2 Chronicles 7:12; Genesis 12:6–7; Deuteronomy 11:29
- 21 1 Timothy 2:8; Ephesians 2:18; Malachi 1:11; Matthew 18:20; John 4:23
- 22 Acts 17:23; Romans 9:4–5; Isaiah 2:3; Luke 24:47; Acts 17:30
- 23 Philippians 3:3; Matthew 15:7–9; John 5:25; Galatians 4:6; Romans 8:26
- 24 2 Corinthians 3:17; Matthew 15:8–9; Philippians 3:3; Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 57:15
- 25 John 1:49; Daniel 9:24–26; John 4:29; John 4:42; Matthew 1:16
- 26 John 8:24; Mark 14:61–62; John 9:35–37; Romans 10:20–21; Matthew 26:63–64
- 27 Luke 7:39; John 4:8–9
- 28 John 4:7; Luke 24:33; Matthew 28:8; Luke 24:9; Mark 16:8–10
- 29 Revelation 22:17; 1 Corinthians 14:24–25; John 1:41–49; John 4:25; John 4:17–18
- 30 Acts 10:33; Acts 13:42; Matthew 11:20–24; Matthew 2:1–3; Luke 17:16–18
- 31 John 1:38; Genesis 24:33
- 32 Job 23:12; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Proverbs 18:20; Jeremiah 15:16
- 33 Luke 9:45; Matthew 16:6–11
- 34 John 6:38; John 5:30; Job 23:12; John 17:4; John 19:30
- 35 Luke 10:2–3; Matthew 9:37–38
- 36 James 5:19–20; 1 Corinthians 3:5–9; Romans 1:13; Proverbs 11:30; 2 Timothy 4:7–8
- 37 Micah 6:15; Job 31:8; Judges 6:3; Luke 19:21
- 38 John 1:7; Acts 10:42–43; 2 Chronicles 36:15; 1 Peter 1:11–12; Acts 8:14–17
- 39 John 4:29; John 4:5; John 10:41–42; John 11:45; John 4:42
- 40 Revelation 3:20; Luke 24:29; 2 Corinthians 6:1–2; Acts 16:15; Luke 8:38
- 41 Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 2:4–5; Acts 8:25; Acts 8:12; Matthew 7:28–29
- 42 1 John 4:14; John 1:29; 1 Timothy 4:10; 1 John 5:20; 2 Corinthians 5:19
- 43 Mark 7:27–28; Matthew 15:21–24; Matthew 4:13; John 4:40; Romans 15:8
- 44 Matthew 13:57; Luke 4:24; Mark 6:4
- 45 John 2:23; John 2:13–16; Deuteronomy 16:16; Luke 9:53; John 3:2
- 46 John 2:1–11; Psalm 50:15; Hosea 5:15; Matthew 9:18; Luke 8:42
- 47 Acts 9:38; John 11:32; Luke 7:6–8; Mark 10:47; Luke 8:41
- 48 John 20:29; 1 Corinthians 1:22; Hebrews 2:4; Daniel 4:2; John 12:37
- 49 Mark 5:23; Mark 5:35–36; Psalm 88:10–12; Psalm 40:17
- 50 Matthew 8:13; Romans 4:20–21; Mark 7:29–30; Luke 17:14; Acts 14:9–10
- 51 1 Kings 17:23
- 53 Psalm 107:20; Luke 19:9; Psalm 33:9; Acts 16:34; Acts 11:14
- 54 John 2:1–11; John 4:45
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
It is nothing new to your ears, beloved, that the Evangelist John, like an eagle, takes a loftier flight, and soars above the dark mist of earth, to gaze with steadier eyes upon the light of truth.
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Then, again, withdrawing Himself [from Judæa], He is found in Samaria; on which occasion, too, He conversed with the Samaritan woman, and while at a distance, cured the son of the centurion by a word, saying, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." Afterwards He went up, the second time, to observe the festival day of the passover in Jerusalem; on …
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