John · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
John 4 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Cuando Jesús se dio cuenta que los fariseos habían descubierto que él estaba ganando y bautizando más discípulos que Juan,
1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (aunque no era Jesús quien estaba bautizando, sino sus discípulos),
2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
3 se fue de Judea y regresó a Galilea.
3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
4 En su camino, tenía que pasar por Samaria.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
5 Así que llegó a la ciudad de Sicar, cerca del campo que Jacob había entregado 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, y Jesús, estando cansado del viaje, se sentó junto al pozo. Era medio día.
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 samaritana vino a buscar agua. Y Jesús le dijo: “¿Podrías darme de beber, por favor?”
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 pues sus discípulos habían ido a comprar comida a la ciudad.
8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 “Tú eres un judío, y yo soy una mujer samaritana. ¿Cómo puedes pedirme que te dé de beber?” respondió la mujer, pues los judíos no se asocian 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 tan solo reconocieras el don de Dios y a quien te está pidiendo ‘dame de beber,’ tú le habrías pedido a él y él te habría dado el agua de vida”.
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 “Señor, tú no tienes un cántaro, y el pozo es profundo. ¿De dónde vas a sacar el agua de vida?” respondió ella.
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 “Nuestro Padre Jacob nos dio el pozo. Él mismo bebió de él, así como sus hijos y sus animales. ¿Eres tu más grande que él?”
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 agua de este pozo, volverá a tener sed.
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 Pero los que beban del agua que yo doy, no volverán a tener sed de nuevo. El agua que yo doy se convierte en una fuente de agua rebosante dentro de ellos, dándoles 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 “Señor”, respondió la mujer, “¡Por favor, dame de esa agua para que yo no tenga más sed y no tenga que venir aquí a buscar agua!”
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 “Ve y llama a tu esposo, y regresa aquí”, le dijo Jesús.
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 “No tengo un esposo”, respondió la mujer. “Estás en lo correcto al decir que no tienes un esposo”, le dijo Jesús.
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’
18 “Has tenido cinco esposos, y el hombre con el que estás viviendo ahora no es tu esposo. ¡Así que lo que dices es cierto!”
18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
19 “Puedo ver que eres un profeta, señor”, respondió la mujer.
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 “Dime esto: nuestros ancestros adoraron aquí en este monte, pero tú dices que en Jerusalén es donde debemos adorar”.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21 Jesús respondió: “Créeme que viene el tiempo en que ustedes no adorarán al Padre ni en este monte, 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 no conocen realmente al Dios que están adorando, mientras que nosotros adoramos al Dios que conocemos, 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 viene el tiempo—y de hecho, ya llegó—cuando los adoradores adorarán al Padre en Espíritu y en verdad, porque este es el tipo de adoradores que el Padre quiere.
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, así que los adoradores deben adorar en Espíritu y en verdad”.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 La mujer dijo: “Bueno, yo sé que el Mesías vendrá”, (al que llaman Cristo). “Cuando él venga, él nos lo explicará a todos nosotros”.
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 respondió: “YO SOY—el que habla contigo”.
26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
27 Justo en ese momento, regresaron los discípulos. Ellos estaban sorprendidos de que él estuviera hablando con una mujer, pero ninguno de ellos le preguntó “¿qué haces?” o “¿por qué estás hablando 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 La mujer dejó su tinaja de agua y corrió de regreso a la ciudad, diciendo a la gente:
28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
29 “¡Vengan y conozcan a un hombre que me dijo todo lo que he hecho! ¿Podría ser este el Mesías?”
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”
30 Entonces la gente se fue de la ciudad para verlo.
30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 Mientras tanto, los discípulos de Jesús estaban insistiéndole: “¡Maestro, come algo, por favor!”
31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 Pero Jesús respondió: “La comida que yo tengo para comer es una de la que ustedes no saben”.
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 “¿Le trajo comida alguien?” se preguntaban los discípulos unos a otros.
33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesús les explicó: “Mi comida es hacer la voluntad de Aquél que me envió y completar 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 tienen ustedes el dicho: ‘hay cuatro meses entre la siembra y la cosecha?’ ¡Abran sus ojos y miren a su alrededor! Los cultivos están maduros, listos para la siega.
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 Al segador se le paga bien y la cosecha es para vida eterna, a fin de que tanto el sembrador como el segador puedan celebrar juntos.
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 Así que el proverbio que dice ‘uno es el que siembra y otro es el que cosecha,’ es verdadero.
37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
38 Yo los envío a ustedes a cosechar aquello que no sembraron. Otros hicieron la obra, y ustedes han segado ahora los beneficios de lo que ellos hicieron”.
38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Muchos samaritanos de aquella ciudad creyeron en él porque la mujer dijo “Él me dijo todo lo que yo 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 Así que cuando vinieron a verlo, le suplicaron que se quedara con ellos. Él permaneció allí por dos días,
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
41 y por lo que él les dijo, muchos creyeron en él.
41 Many more believed because of his word.
42 Ellos le dijeron a la mujer: “Ahora nuestra confianza en él no es por lo que tú nos dijiste sino porque nosotros mismos lo hemos oído. Estamos convencidos de que él es realmente 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, siguió camino a Galilea.
43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
44 Jesús mismo había hecho el comentario de que un profeta no es respetado en su propia tierra.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 Pero cuando llegó a Galilea, el pueblo lo recibió porque ellos también habían estado en la fiesta de la Pascua y habían visto todo lo que él había hecho 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 Él visitó nuevamente Caná de Galilea, donde había convertido el agua en vino. Cerca, en la ciudad de Capernaúm, vivía un oficial del rey cuyo hijo estaba muy enfermo.
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 él escuchó que Jesús había regresado de Judea a Galilea, fue a Jesús y le rogó que viniese y sanase a su hijo que estaba a punto de 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 “A menos que vean señales y milagros, ustedes no creerán realmente en mi”, dijo Jesús.
48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
49 “Señor, solo ven antes de que mi hijo muera”, suplicó el oficial.
49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Ve a casa”, le dijo Jesús. “¡Tu hijo vivirá!” El hombre creyó lo que Jesús le dijo y se fue a casa.
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 aún iba de camino, sus siervos salieron a su encuentro, y al verlo, le dijeron la noticia de que su hijo estaba vivo y recuperándose.
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
52 Él les preguntó a qué hora había comenzado a mejorar su hijo. “Ayer a la una de la tarde dejó de tener fiebre”, le dijeron.
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 se dio cuenta de que esa era la hora precisa en la que Jesús le había dicho “¡Tu hijo vivirá!” Entonces él y todos en 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 Este fue el segundo milagro que Jesús hizo después de regresar 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
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