Today Our Daily Bread John 4 ( English & Russian w/ Russian Lena's Comments also)

John 4
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is baptizing and making more disciples than John" 2 (though Jesus himself didn't baptize them--his disciples did). 3 So he left Judea to return to Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink." 8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. 9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, "You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?" 10 Jesus replied, "If you only knew the gift God has for you and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water." 11 "But sir, you don't have a rope or a bucket," she said, "and this is a very deep well. Where would you get this living water? 12And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his cattle enjoyed?" 13 Jesus replied, "People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water. 14But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life." 15 "Please, sir," the woman said, "give me some of that water! Then I'll never be thirsty again, and I won't have to come here to haul water." 16 "Go and get your husband," Jesus told her.
17 "I don't have a husband," the woman replied. Jesus said, "You're right! You don't have a husband-- 18for you have had five husbands, and you aren't even married to the man you're living with now." 19 "Sir," the woman said, "you must be a prophet. 20So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?" 21 Jesus replied, "Believe me, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans know so little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. 23 But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way. 24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth." 25 The woman said, "I know the Messiah will come--the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 26 Then Jesus told her, "I am the Messiah!" 27 Just then his disciples arrived. They were astonished to find him talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why he was doing it or what they had been discussing. 28The woman left her water jar beside the well and went back to the village and told everyone, 29 "Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Can this be the Messiah?" 30 So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to eat. 32 "No," he said, "I have food you don't know about." 33 "Who brought it to him?" the disciples asked each other. 34 Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. 35Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest. 36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! 37 You know the saying, `One person plants and someone else harvests.' And it's true. 38 I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant; others had already done the work, and you will gather the harvest."
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, "He told me everything I ever did!" 40 When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay at their village. So he stayed for two days, 41 long enough for many of them to hear his message and believe. 42 Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world."
Jesus Heals an Officials Son
43 At the end of the two days' stay, Jesus went on into Galilee. 44 He had previously said, "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country." 45 The Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen all his miraculous signs. 46 In the course of his journey through Galilee, he arrived at the town of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government official in the city of Capernaum whose son was very sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was traveling in Galilee, he went over to Cana. He found Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum with him to heal his son, who was about to die. 48 Jesus asked, "Must I do miraculous signs and wonders before you people will believe in me?" 49 The official pleaded, "Lord, please come now before my little boy dies." 50 Then Jesus told him, "Go back home. Your son will live!" And the man believed Jesus' word and started home. 51 While he was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. 52 He asked them when the boy had begun to feel better, and they replied, "Yesterday afternoon at one o'clock his fever suddenly disappeared!" 53 Then the father realized it was the same time that Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." And the officer and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This was Jesus' second miraculous sign in Galilee after coming from Judea.
New Living Translation (NLT)
~Lena’s Comments~
Ever feel you know where you are headed7 Even on your journey with the Lord, you feel you know it is very clear what He is showing you to do and where to go and now you find yourself having to stop off somewhere unplanned? Maybe you have to go through a few things before actually arriving at your destination? (Think of the word- Destiny in that word destination) Jesus was always headed somewhere and even he had to go through a few things and stop of at places along the way. Why would our walks be any different than his when he came to show us the walk? He showed us examples we don’t always tie together. Remember before His ministry appearance, He spent time alone with God, and daily He’d go off to prayer? Prayer with God is where he found his rest, the rest His soul might need when he went through a few things. We’re being called to the same place He lived, in constant communication with our Father God. The world is actually hungry for someone like Jesus to show them the father God and that they too can be led into a relationship of an eternal nature with God. Everyone is drinking and eating to live, but the eating and drinking they are doing is for life here, not for life after here. This is the food and drink the core of their very being yearns for. Only by being with the father can we ever have the keys to unlock doors to people’s hearts, the keys that will release them from their bondages and tear down the wall that have blinded them from seeing their need for eternal water. The woman at the well was actually looking for a savior, but she needed a Master, a Lord and she needed to know what he looked like. We show what he looks like to the world, just as Jesus showed the Father to the world. True conversion is evidenced by the opening of the mouth,, telling others about who He is. Also a spiritual baby is very hungry and very thirsty for Him, cannot get enough of Him, wants to see Him, wants Him to stay, wants Him to speak. No matter our ages we are all children of God and lovers of God, and should never lose that hunger and thirst and desire. If we have there’s only one place for it to be restored a new, in His presence. The raising of the dead in the next passages, show how our faith and our responses to Jesus when we hear of Him or from Him are all matters of death or life. The call of death is upon us everyday, we have to choose life. In His words we find life. He spoke the word and the child was made alive. If the child in you, seemed dead, go to His word and let Him speak life over you and raise you up to life again. Be resurrected and made ALIVE! God is the God of the miraculous, be made alive by the miraculous work of His word, of His voice. Get to where you HAVE to hear His voice in whatever form it comes in. It can come in many forms. Bible reading and prayer, teachings, songs, preaching, and fellowship with believers. I want to be surrounded by His words.
~ For Olga ~
От Иоанна 4
1 Когда же узнал Иисус о [дошедшем до] фарисеев слухе, что Он более приобретает учеников и крестит, нежели Иоанн, -- 2 хотя Сам Иисус не крестил, а ученики Его, -- 3 то оставил Иудею и пошел опять в Галилею. 4 Надлежало же Ему проходить через Самарию. 5 Итак приходит Он в город Самарийский, называемый Сихарь, близ участка земли, данного Иаковом сыну своему Иосифу. 6 Там был колодезь Иаковлев. Иисус, утрудившись от пути, сел у колодезя. Было около шестого часа. 7 Приходит женщина из Самарии почерпнуть воды. Иисус говорит ей: дай Мне пить. 8 Ибо ученики Его отлучились в город купить пищи. 9 Женщина Самарянская говорит Ему: как ты, будучи Иудей, просишь пить у меня, Самарянки? ибо Иудеи с Самарянами не сообщаются.
10 Иисус сказал ей в ответ: если бы ты знала дар Божий и Кто говорит тебе: дай Мне пить, то ты сама просила бы у Него, и Он дал бы тебе воду живую. 11 Женщина говорит Ему: господин! тебе и почерпнуть нечем, а колодезь глубок; откуда же у тебя вода живая? 12 Неужели ты больше отца нашего Иакова, который дал нам этот колодезь и сам из него пил, и дети его, и скот его?
13 Иисус сказал ей в ответ: всякий, пьющий воду сию, возжаждет опять, 14 а кто будет пить воду, которую Я дам ему, тот не будет жаждать вовек; но вода, которую Я дам ему, сделается в нем источником воды, текущей в жизнь вечную. 15 Женщина говорит Ему: господин! дай мне этой воды, чтобы мне не иметь жажды и не приходить сюда черпать. 16 Иисус говорит ей: пойди, позови мужа твоего и приди сюда. 17 Женщина сказала в ответ: у меня нет мужа. Иисус говорит ей: правду ты сказала, что у тебя нет мужа, 18 ибо у тебя было пять мужей, и тот, которого ныне имеешь, не муж тебе; это справедливо ты сказала. 19 Женщина говорит Ему: Господи! вижу, что Ты пророк. 20 Отцы наши поклонялись на этой горе, а вы говорите, что место, где должно поклоняться, находится в Иерусалиме. 21 Иисус говорит ей: поверь Мне, что наступает время, когда и не на горе сей, и не в Иерусалиме будете поклоняться Отцу. 22 Вы не знаете, чему кланяетесь, а мы знаем, чему кланяемся, ибо спасение от Иудеев. 23 Но настанет время и настало уже, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Отцу в духе и истине, ибо таких поклонников Отец ищет Себе. 24 Бог есть дух, и поклоняющиеся Ему должны поклоняться в духе и истине.
25 Женщина говорит Ему: знаю, что придет Мессия, то есть Христос; когда Он придет, то возвестит нам все. 26 Иисус говорит ей: это Я, Который говорю с тобою. 27 В это время пришли ученики Его, и удивились, что Он разговаривал с женщиною; однакож ни один не сказал: чего Ты требуешь? или: о чем говоришь с нею? 28 Тогда женщина оставила водонос свой и пошла в город, и говорит людям: 29 пойдите, посмотрите Человека, Который сказал мне все, что я сделала: не Он ли Христос? 30 Они вышли из города и пошли к Нему. 31 Между тем ученики просили Его, говоря: Равви! ешь. 32 Но Он сказал им: у Меня есть пища, которой вы не знаете. 33 Посему ученики говорили между собою: разве кто принес Ему есть? 34 Иисус говорит им: Моя пища есть творить волю Пославшего Меня и совершить дело Его. 35 Не говорите ли вы, что еще четыре месяца, и наступит жатва? А Я говорю вам: возведите очи ваши и посмотрите на нивы, как они побелели и поспели к жатве. 36 Жнущий получает награду и собирает плод в жизнь вечную, так что и сеющий и жнущий вместе радоваться будут, 37 ибо в этом случае справедливо изречение: один сеет, а другой жнет. 38 Я послал вас жать то, над чем вы не трудились: другие трудились, а вы вошли в труд их. 39 И многие Самаряне из города того уверовали в Него по слову женщины, свидетельствовавшей, что Он сказал ей все, что она сделала. 40 И потому, когда пришли к Нему Самаряне, то просили Его побыть у них; и Он пробыл там два дня. 41 И еще большее число уверовали по Его слову. 42 А женщине той говорили: уже не по твоим речам веруем, ибо сами слышали и узнали, что Он истинно Спаситель мира, Христос. 43 По прошествии же двух дней Он вышел оттуда и пошел в Галилею, 44 ибо Сам Иисус свидетельствовал, что пророк не имеет чести в своем отечестве. 45 Когда пришел Он в Галилею, то Галилеяне приняли Его, видев все, что Он сделал в Иерусалиме в праздник, --ибо и они ходили на праздник. 46 Итак Иисус опять пришел в Кану Галилейскую, где претворил воду в вино. В Капернауме был некоторый царедворец, у которого сын был болен. 47 Он, услышав, что Иисус пришел из Иудеи в Галилею, пришел к Нему и просил Его придти и исцелить сына его, который был при смерти. 48 Иисус сказал ему: вы не уверуете, если не увидите знамений и чудес. 49 Царедворец говорит Ему: Господи! приди, пока не умер сын мой. 50 Иисус говорит ему: пойди, сын твой здоров. Он поверил слову, которое сказал ему Иисус, и пошел. 51 На дороге встретили его слуги его и сказали: сын твой здоров. 52 Он спросил у них: в котором часу стало ему легче? Ему сказали: вчера в седьмом часу горячка оставила его. 53 Из этого отец узнал, что это был тот час, в который Иисус сказал ему: сын твой здоров, и уверовал сам и весь дом его. 54 Это второе чудо сотворил Иисус, возвратившись из Иудеи в Галилею.
Russian Synodal Version (RSV) Public Domain
Kommentarii ~Lena ~
Kogda-libo chuvstvo, kotoroye Vy znayete, gde Vy - headed7 Dazhe na vashej poyezdke s Bogom, Vy chuvstvuyete, chto Vy znayete, chto ochen' yasno, chto On pokazyvayet Vam, chtoby sdelat' i gde pojti, i teper' Vy imeyete neobhodimost', chtoby ostanovit's'a gde-nibud' nezaplanirovannyye? Vozmozhno Vy dolzhny projti neskol'ko veschej prezhde, chem fakticheski dostignut' vashego prednaznacheniya? (Dumajte o slove - Sud'ba v tom prednaznachenii slova), Iisus vsegda vozglavl'als'a gde-nibud', i dazhe on dolzhen byl projti neskol'ko veschej i ostanovki v mestah po puti. Pochemu nashi progulki dejstvitel'no li l'uboj, byt' otlichnym chem yego, kogda on pribyl, chtoby pokazat' nam progulku? On pokazal nam primery, kotoryye my ne vsegda sv'azyvayem vmeste. Pomnite pered YEgo poyavleniyem ministerstva, On tratil vrem'a odno s Bogom, i yezhednevno On ujdet k pros'be? Pros'ba s Bogom - to, gde on nashel yego otdyh, ostal'nyye, YEgo dusha, vozmozhno, nuzhdayets'a, kogda on proshel neskol'ko veschej. Nas nazyvayut k tomu zhe samomu mestu, On zhil, v postoyannoj kommunikacii s nashim Bogom Otca. Mir fakticheski zhazhdet kogo - to kak Iisus, chtoby pokazat' im Boga otca i chto oni takzhe mogut vestis' v otnosheniya vechnoj prirody s Bogom. Kazhdyj p'et i yest, chtoby zhit', no zdes'. Eto - pischa i napitok, po kotoromu yadro togo, chto oni ochen' byli toskuyet. Tol'ko buduchi s otcom mozhet my kogda-libo imet' kl'uchi, chtoby otperet' dveri v serdca l'udej, kl'uchi, kotoryye osvobod'at ih ot ih nevoli i sorvut stenu, kotoryye oslepili ih ot nabl'udeniya ih potrebnosti v vechnoj vode. ZHenschina v horosho fakticheski iskala spasitel'a, no ona nuzhdalas' vo Vladel'ce, Bog i ona dolzhny byli znat' to, chto on napominal. My pokazyvayem to, chto on napominayet k miru, tak zhe, kak Iisus pokazal Otcu miru. Istinnoye preobrazovaniye dokazano otkrytiyem rta, govor'a drugim o tom, kto On. Takzhe duhovnyj rebenok ochen' hochet yest' i ochen' izmuchennyj zhazhdoj dl'a Nego, ne mozhet poluchit' dostatochno YEgo, hochet videt' YEgo, hochet, chtoby On ostals'a, hochet, chtoby On govoril. Nezavisimo ot togo nashi vozrasty my - vse deti Boga i l'ubitelej Boga, i nikogda ne dolzhny ter'at' tot golod i zhazhdu i zhelaniye. YEsli my imeyem yest' tol'ko odno mesto dl'a etogo, chtoby byt' vosstanovlennym novoye, v YEgo prisutstvii. Pod"em mertvyh v sleduyuschih prohodah, pokazhite, kak nasha vera i nashi otvety Iisusu, kogda my slyshim o Nem ili ot Nego - vse voprosy smerti ili zhizni. Zapros smerti nahodits'a na nas kazhdyj den', my dolzhny vybrat' zhizn'. V YEgo slovah my nahodim zhizn'. On govoril slovo, i rebenok byl sdelan zhivym. YEsli rebenok v Vas, kazals'a mertvym, pojdite v YEgo slovo i pozvol'te YEmu govorit' zhizn' po Vam i vospityvat' Vas do zhizni snova. Bud'te vozrozhden i sdelan ZHIVYM! Bog - Bog udivitel'nogo, byt' sdelan zhivym udivitel'noj rabotoj YEgo slova, YEgo golosa. Doberites' tuda, gde Vy DOLZHNY slyshat' YEgo golos v l'uboj forme, eto vhodit. Eto mozhet vojti vo mnogiye formy. CHteniye biblii i pros'ba, obucheniye, pesni, propovedovaniye, i tovarischestvo so storonnikami. YA hochu byt' okruzhennym YEgo slovami.