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MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

4:1       {Mar 1:14a & Mat 4:12 & Luk 3:19-20 & Joh 4:1-4 Judea to Galilee.}       Therefore, as the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making^* and immersing^* more disciples than John,

4:2 (although Jesus himself was not immersing^*, but his disciples did),

4:3 he left Judea and went away into Galilee.      

4:4 Now it was essential for him to go through Samaria.       {Joh 4:5-43 Jacob’s Well and at Sychar; no parallel.}      

4:5 Therefore, he comes to a city of Samaria, called^* Sychar, close to the parcel of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

4:6 and Jacob’s well was there. Therefore, Jesus has labored from the journey, and was sitting thus upon the well. It was approximately the sixth hour {i.e., Noon} .

4:7 A woman from Samaria comes to dip-out water. Jesus says to her, Give to me some water to drink.

4:8 For^* his disciples had gone away into the city, in-order-that they might buy various nourishments.      

4:9 Therefore, the Samaritan woman says to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman? (For^* Jews have no dealings together-with Samaritans.)      

4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give to me some water to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given living water to you.      

4:11 The woman says to him, Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep. Therefore, from where do you have the living water?

4:12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out-of it himself and his sons and his livestock, are you?      

4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again

4:14 but whoever may drink from the water which I will be giving him should never be thirsty forever, but the water which I will be giving him will become in him a well of water leaping up to everlasting life.      

4:15 The woman says to him, Lord, give this water to me in-order-that I may not be thirsty, nor come here to dip-out water.      

4:16 Jesus says to her, Proceed-away, summon your husband, and come here.      

4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.      Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband,

4:18 for^* you had five husbands, and he whom you have now is not your husband. You have said this, a true thing.      

4:19 The woman says to him, Lord, I view that you are a prophet.

4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you^° Jews say, In Jerusalem is the place where it is essential to worship.      

4:21 Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you^° will be worshiping the Father, neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.

4:22 You^° worship what you^° do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

4:23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping the Father in spirit and truth; for^* the Father also is seeking such who are worshiping him.

4:24 God is a Spirit, and it is essential for the ones worshiping him to worship in spirit and truth.      

4:25 The woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called^* Christ). Whenever he comes, that man will be proclaiming all things to us.      

4:26 Jesus says to her, I am he, who is speaking to you.      

4:27 And his disciples came upon this, and marveled that he was speaking with a woman; nevertheless, no one said, What are you seeking? Or, Why are you speaking with her?      

4:28 Therefore, the woman left her water pot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

4:29 Come-here^°. Behold^°, a man who told me all things, as many things as I did^*. This is not the Christ, is it?

4:30 They went forth out-of the city and were coming toward him.      

4:31 But in the time in between, the disciples were asking him, saying, Rabbi, eat.      

4:32 But he said to them, I have food to eat which you^° do not know.      

4:33 Therefore, the disciples were saying to one another, Someone did not bring him anything to eat, did they?      

4:34 Jesus says to them, My food is that^* I should do^* the will of the one who sent me, and should complete his work.

4:35 Do you^° not say, There are still four months and then the harvest comes. Behold, I am saying to you^°, Lift^° up your^° eyes and look^° at the farmlands, because they are already white for the harvest.

4:36 And he who is reaping receives wages and gathers fruit to everlasting life; in-order-that he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice also in unison.

4:37 For^* the true word is in this, Another is he who is sowing and another is he who is reaping.

4:38 I sent you^° forth to reap what you^° have not labored; others have labored, and you^° have entered into their labor.      

4:39 Now many out-of the Samaritans from that city believed into him, because of the word of the woman, who was testifying, He told me all things, as many things as I did^*.

4:40 Therefore, as the Samaritans came to him, they were asking him to abide with them, and he remained there two days.

4:41 And many more believed because of his word;

4:42 and they were saying to the woman, We believe no longer because of your speech; for^* we ourselves have heard, and know, This is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.      

4:43 Now after the two days, he went forth from there and went into Galilee.

4:44 For^* Jesus himself testified, A prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.       {Luk 4:14a & Joh 4:44-45 Arrival in Galilee.}      

4:45 Therefore, when he came into Galilee, the Galileans accepted him, who have seen all the things which he did^* in Jerusalem at the feast; for^* they themselves also went to the feast.       {Joh 4:46-54 Cana; no parallel.}      

4:46 Therefore, Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made^* the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick in Capernaum.

4:47 This one heard that Jesus is coming out-of Judea into Galilee, and went toward him, and was asking him in-order-that he might come-down and might heal his son; for^* he was about to die.

4:48 Therefore, Jesus said to him, If you^° do not see signs and wonders, you^° should never believe.      

4:49 The nobleman says to him, Lord, come-down here before my child is to die.      

4:50 Jesus says to him, Travel on; your son lives.      And the man believed the word in which Jesus spoke to him, and he was traveling on.      

4:51 And already while going-down, his bondservants encountered him and reported, saying, Your boy lives.

4:52 Therefore, he inquired from them the hour in which he had improved. And they said to him, The fever left him yesterday in the seventh hour {i.e., 1:00 PM} .

4:53 Therefore, the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and his whole house believed.

4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did^*, when he went out-of Judea into Galilee.