John · Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
John 4 Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
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Notes on this text (3)
- Double square brackets [[ ]] are marks in the digital source; at 1 John 5:7–8 they enclose the words the 1904 edition prints in smaller type.
- The digital source has no accents or capitals (as Robinson distributes it); 1912 base text, movable nu regularised.
- Credit: Maurice A. Robinson & Jussi Ala-Konni (byztxt).
1 ως ουν εγνω ο κυριος οτι ηκουσαν οι φαρισαιοι οτι ιησους πλειονας μαθητας ποιει και βαπτιζει η ιωαννης
1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 — καιτοιγε ιησους αυτος ουκ εβαπτιζεν, αλλ οι μαθηται αυτου—
2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
3 αφηκεν την ιουδαιαν και απηλθεν εις την γαλιλαιαν.
3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
4 εδει δε αυτον διερχεσθαι δια της σαμαρειας.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
5 ερχεται ουν εις πολιν της σαμαρειας λεγομενην συχαρ, πλησιον του χωριου ο εδωκεν ιακωβ ιωσηφ τω υιω αυτου·
5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 ην δε εκει πηγη του ιακωβ. ο ουν ιησους κεκοπιακως εκ της οδοιποριας εκαθεζετο ουτως επι τη πηγη· ωρα ην ωσει εκτη.
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 ερχεται γυνη εκ της σαμαρειας αντλησαι υδωρ. λεγει αυτη ο ιησους· δος μοι πιειν.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 οι γαρ μαθηται αυτου απεληλυθεισαν εις την πολιν ινα τροφας αγορασωσιν.
8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 λεγει ουν αυτω η γυνη η σαμαρειτις· πως συ ιουδαιος ων παρ εμου πιειν αιτεις, ουσης γυναικος σαμαρειτιδος; ου γαρ συγχρωνται ιουδαιοι σαμαρειταις.
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 απεκριθη ιησους και ειπεν αυτη· ει ηδεις την δωρεαν του θεου, και τις εστιν ο λεγων σοι, δος μοι πιειν, συ αν ητησας αυτον, και εδωκεν αν σοι υδωρ ζων.
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 λεγει αυτω η γυνη· κυριε, ουτε αντλημα εχεις, και το φρεαρ εστιν βαθυ· ποθεν ουν εχεις το υδωρ το ζων;
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 μη συ μειζων ει του πατρος ημων ιακωβ, ος εδωκεν ημιν το φρεαρ, και αυτος εξ αυτου επιεν και οι υιοι αυτου και τα θρεμματα αυτου;
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 απεκριθη ιησους και ειπεν αυτη· πας ο πινων εκ του υδατος τουτου διψησει παλιν·
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 ος δ αν πιη εκ του υδατος ου εγω δωσω αυτω, ου μη διψηση εις τον αιωνα, αλλα το υδωρ ο δωσω αυτω, γενησεται εν αυτω πηγη υδατος αλλομενου εις ζωην αιωνιον.
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 λεγει προς αυτον η γυνη· κυριε, δος μοι τουτο το υδωρ, ινα μη διψω μηδε ερχωμαι ενθαδε αντλειν.
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 λεγει αυτη ο ιησους· υπαγε φωνησον τον ανδρα σου και ελθε ενθαδε.
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 απεκριθη η γυνη και ειπεν· ουκ εχω ανδρα. λεγει αυτη ο ιησους· καλως ειπας οτι ανδρα ουκ εχω·
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’
18 πεντε γαρ ανδρας εσχες, και νυν ον εχεις ουκ εστιν σου ανηρ· τουτο αληθες ειρηκας.
18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
19 λεγει αυτω η γυνη· κυριε, θεωρω οτι προφητης ει συ.
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 οι πατερες υμων εν τω ορει τουτω προσεκυνησαν· και υμεις λεγετε οτι εν ιεροσολυμοις εστιν ο τοπος οπου δει προσκυνειν.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21 λεγει αυτη ο ιησους· γυναι, πιστευσον μοι οτι ερχεται ωρα οτε ουτε εν τω ορει τουτω ουτε εν ιεροσολυμοις προσκυνησετε τω πατρι.
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 υμεις προσκυνειτε ο ουκ οιδατε, ημεις προσκυνουμεν ο οιδαμεν· οτι η σωτηρια εκ των ιουδαιων εστιν.
22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
23 αλλ ερχεται ωρα, και νυν εστιν, οτε οι αληθινοι προσκυνηται προσκυνησουσιν τω πατρι εν πνευματι και αληθεια· και γαρ ο πατηρ τοιουτους ζητει τους προσκυνουντας αυτον.
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 πνευμα ο θεος, και τους προσκυνουντας αυτον εν πνευματι και αληθεια δει προσκυνειν.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 λεγει αυτω η γυνη· οιδα οτι μεσσιας ερχεται ο λεγομενος χριστος· οταν ελθη εκεινος, αναγγελει ημιν παντα.
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 λεγει αυτη ο ιησους· εγω ειμι ο λαλων σοι.
26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
27 και επι τουτω ηλθον οι μαθηται αυτου, και εθαυμασαν οτι μετα γυναικος ελαλει· ουδεις μεντοι ειπεν, τι ζητεις η τι λαλεις μετ αυτης;
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 αφηκεν ουν την υδριαν αυτης η γυνη και απηλθεν εις την πολιν, και λεγει τοις ανθρωποις·
28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
29 δευτε ιδετε ανθρωπον ος ειπεν μοι παντα οσα εποιησα· μητι ουτος εστιν ο χριστος;
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”
30 εξηλθον [ουν] εκ της πολεως και ηρχοντο προς αυτον.
30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 εν δε τω μεταξυ ηρωτων αυτον οι μαθηται λεγοντες· ραββι, φαγε.
31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 ο δε ειπεν αυτοις· εγω βρωσιν εχω φαγειν, ην υμεις ουκ οιδατε.
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 ελεγον ουν οι μαθηται προς αλληλους· μη τις ηνεγκεν αυτω φαγειν;
33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
34 λεγει αυτοις ο ιησους· εμον βρωμα εστιν ινα ποιω το θελημα του πεμψαντος με και τελειωσω αυτου το εργον.
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
35 ουχ υμεις λεγετε οτι ετι τετραμηνος εστιν και ο θερισμος ερχεται; ιδου λεγω υμιν, επαρατε τους οφθαλμους υμων και θεασασθε τας χωρας, οτι λευκαι εισιν προς θερισμον ηδη.
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 και ο θεριζων μισθον λαμβανει και συναγει καρπον εις ζωην αιωνιον, ινα και ο σπειρων ομου χαιρη και ο θεριζων.
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 εν γαρ τουτω ο λογος εστιν ο αληθινος, οτι αλλος εστιν ο σπειρων και αλλος ο θεριζων.
37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
38 εγω απεστειλα υμας θεριζειν ο ουχ υμεις κεκοπιακατε· αλλοι κεκοπιακασιν, και υμεις εις τον κοπον αυτων εισεληλυθατε.
38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 εκ δε της πολεως εκεινης πολλοι επιστευσαν εις αυτον των σαμαρειτων δια τον λογον της γυναικος, μαρτυρουσης οτι ειπεν μοι παντα οσα εποιησα.
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 ως ουν ηλθον προς αυτον οι σαμαρειται, ηρωτων αυτον μειναι παρ αυτοις· και εμεινεν εκει δυο ημερας.
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
41 και πολλω πλειους επιστευσαν δια τον λογον αυτου,
41 Many more believed because of his word.
42 τη τε γυναικι ελεγον οτι ουκετι δια την σην λαλιαν πιστευομεν· αυτοι γαρ ακηκοαμεν, και οιδαμεν οτι ουτος εστιν αληθως ο σωτηρ του κοσμου ο χριστος.
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 μετα δε τας δυο ημερας εξηλθεν εκειθεν και απηλθεν εις την γαλιλαιαν.
43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
44 αυτος γαρ ο ιησους εμαρτυρησεν οτι προφητης εν τη ιδια πατριδι τιμην ουκ εχει.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 οτε ουν ηλθεν εις την γαλιλαιαν, εδεξαντο αυτον οι γαλιλαιοι, παντα εωρακοτες α εποιησεν εν ιεροσολυμοις εν τη εορτη· και αυτοι γαρ ηλθον εις την εορτην.
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 ηλθεν ουν παλιν ο ιησους εις την κανα της γαλιλαιας, οπου εποιησεν το υδωρ οινον. και ην τις βασιλικος, ου ο υιος ησθενει εν καπερναουμ·
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 ουτος ακουσας οτι ιησους ηκει εκ της ιουδαιας εις την γαλιλαιαν, απηλθεν προς αυτον και ηρωτα αυτον ινα καταβη και ιασηται αυτου τον υιον· ημελλεν γαρ αποθνησκειν.
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 ειπεν ουν ο ιησους προς αυτον· εαν μη σημεια και τερατα ιδητε, ου μη πιστευσητε.
48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
49 λεγει προς αυτον ο βασιλικος· κυριε, καταβηθι πριν αποθανειν το παιδιον μου.
49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 λεγει αυτω ο ιησους· πορευου· ο υιος σου ζη. και επιστευσεν ο ανθρωπος τω λογω ω ειπεν αυτω ο ιησους, και επορευετο.
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 ηδη δε αυτου καταβαινοντος οι δουλοι αυτου απηντησαν αυτω και απηγγειλαν λεγοντες οτι ο παις σου ζη.
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
52 επυθετο ουν παρ αυτων την ωραν εν η κομψοτερον εσχεν. και ειπον αυτω οτι χθες ωραν εβδομην αφηκεν αυτον ο πυρετος.
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 εγνω ουν ο πατηρ οτι εν εκεινη τη ωρα εν η ειπεν αυτω ο ιησους οτι ο υιος σου ζη· και επιστευσεν αυτος και η οικια αυτου ολη.
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 τουτο παλιν δευτερον σημειον εποιησεν ο ιησους ελθων εκ της ιουδαιας εις την γαλιλαιαν.
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)
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- 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
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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.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Scripture calls the grace of the Spirit sometimes "Fire," sometimes "Water," showing that these names are not descriptive of its essence, but of its operation; for the Spirit, being Invisible and Simple, cannot be made up of different substances. Now the one John declares, speaking thus, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire" ( Matt. iii.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
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 …
… out more frequent prayers and tears, that Thou wouldest hasten Thy aid, and enlighten my darkness; and she hurried all the more assiduously to the church, and hung upon the words of Ambrose, praying for the fountain of water that springeth up into everlasting life. For she loved that man as an angel of God, because she knew that it …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
He, for example, who is set down in John, is for dragging Him unto his house, and saith, "Come down, for my child is ready to die." But not so this man; rather he is far superior both to him, and to those who let down the bed through the roof.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)