John Chapter 4
1) When Yahushua knew that the Pharisees had heard that He had made and immersed... 907 baptizo {bap-tid'-zo} - cleansed by submerging in water... more disciples than John,
2) (Although Yahushua Himself did not immerse any, but His disciples did) See John Chapter 3:22, 3:26
3) He left Iudea and travelled again to Galilee;
4) And by necessity had to go through Samaria.
5) Then He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar... soo-khar' - meaning: "drunken" - probably another name for the town of Shechem, located in Samaria, near the well of Jacob..., which is near to the parcel of ground that Yacob gave to his son Yoseph.
6) Now, Yacobs' well was there; and Yahushua, for this reason, being weary from His journey, rested by sitting on the well: and it was about the sixth hour... Midday...
7) To the well comes a woman to get water; and Yahushua said to her: Give me... let me have... some of the water to drink.
8) (He said this to her because his disciples had gone into the city to buy food)
9) Then, the woman of Samaria said to Him: How is it that you, being a Jew, asks me, a woman of Samaria, for a drink, ? (She said this because the Jews have no dealings... the Jews do not associate... with the Samaritans.)
10) Yahushua answered her and said: If you knew the gift of Yahweh, and who it is that says to you: give me a drink of water, then you would have asked for water from Him; and He would have given you living water.
11) The woman said to Him: Sir, you have nothing with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From what source, then, do you have this... living water?
12) Are you greater than our forefather Yacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself; and his children and his cattle?
13) Yahushua answered and said to her: Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again;
14) But, whoever drinks of the water that I give to him will never thirst; but instead, the water that I give to him will be within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life.
15) The woman said to Him: Sir... 2962 kurios {koo'-ree-os} - master - you who have control of me..., give me... let me have... this water so that I will not be thirsty and have to come here to get water.
16) Yahushua said to her: Go. Call your husband; and come here.
17) The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Yahushua said to her: You have spoken well in saying you have no husband.
18) Because you have had five husbands; and the man you are now with is not your husband. In your saying of that you speak the truth.
19) The woman said to Him: Master, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20) Our forefathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say that in Yerushalem is the place where men should worship.
21) Yahushua said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour comes when you will neither in this mountain, nor at Yerushalem worship the Father.
22) You worship what you do not know... you do not comprehend or understand who or what you worship and pay homage to...: We know... we comprehend... who and what it is that we worship: Because salvation... life, safety, preservation, deliverance from harm... is of the jews... 2453 Ioudaios {ee-oo-dah'-yos} - Jewish, belonging to the Jewish race...;
***What Yahushua speaks to the woman here is referencing the heritage of who they... Yahushua and his disciples... are as Yahweh's historically set apart and chosen people, Israel, largely in the composite form of the northern tribes of Yahudah, Benyamin, and Levi that have become known as Yahudim; and, that the heritage that she has been born from is tainted with the bloodlines of nationalities foriegn to the heritage of Israel which were brought in to take the place of true Israelites in Samaria as they were conquered, taken captive and displaced to other regions within the empires of Assyria and Babylon, to take over the homes and lands of the expatriated of the Northern kingdom of Israel throughout subsequent years... Consequently, antagonistic lines of hatred had been drawn between the true, pure Jew and the "wannabe" of intermingled bloodlines of other Semitic peoples; and even though the Samaritan woman recognizes her lineal descent as being from Yacob, she understands the superior stance of the Yahudim; and Yahushua is stating that she does not really understand what she worships because she is of a line of descent; and of a history of religious beliefs and practices, that is not completely Israel...
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From ISBE (International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia)
7540 Samaritans
sa-mar'-i-tanz (Heb: shomeronim; Grk: Samareitai, New Testament; (singular), Grk: Samarites): The name "Samaritans" in 2 Ki 17:29 clearly applies to the Israelite inhabitants of the Northern Kingdom. In subsequent history it denotes a people of mixed origin, composed of the peoples brought by the conqueror from Babylon and elsewhere to take the places of the expatriated Israelites and those who were left in the land (722 BC). Sargon claims to have carried away only 27,290 of the inhabitants (KIB, II, 55). Doubtless these were, as in the case of Judah, the chief men, men of wealth and influence, including all the priests, the humbler classes being left to till the land, tend the vineyards, etc. Hezekiah, who came to the throne of Judah probably in 715 BC, could still appeal to the tribes Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, Asher and Zebulun (2 Ch 30:5,10,11,18 ff); and the presence of these tribesmen is implied in the narrative of Josiah's reformation (2 Ch 34:6 f). Although the number of the colonists was increased by Esar-haddon and Osnappar (Assur-bani-pal, Ezr 4:2,9 f), the population, it is reasonable to suppose, continued prevailingly Israelite; otherwise their religion would not so easily have won the leading place. The colonists thought it necessary for their own safety to acknowledge Yahweh, in whose land they dwelt, as one among the gods to be feared (2 Ki 17:24 ff). In the intermixture that followed "their own gods" seem to have fallen on evil days; and when the Samaritans asked permission to share in building the temple under Zerubbabel, they claimed, apparently with a good conscience, to serve God and to sacrifice to Him as the Jews did (Ezr 4:1 f). Whatever justification there was for this claim, their proffered friendship was turned to deadly hostility by the blunt refusal of their request. The old enmity between north and south no doubt intensified the quarrel, and the antagonism of Jew and Samaritan, in its bitterness, was destined to pass into a proverb. The Samaritans set themselves, with great temporary success, to frustrate the work in which they were not permitted to share (Ezr 4:4 ff: Neh 4:7 ff. etc.).
From the strict administration of the Law in Jerusalem malcontents found their way to the freer atmosphere of Samaria. Among these renegades was Manasseh, brother of the high priest, who had married a daughter of Sanballat, the Persian governor of Samaria. According to Josephus, Sanballat, with the sanction of Alexander the Great, built a temple for the Samaritans on Mt. Gerizim, of which Manasseh became high priest (Ant., XI, vii, 2; viii, 2 ff). Josephus, however, places Manasseh a century too late. He was a contemporary of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh 13:28).
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23) But the hour comes, and is even now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: Because the Father looks for this kind or sort to worship Him.
24) Yahweh is spirit: and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
25) The woman said: I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is called the Messiah... Maschiach... When He comes He will tell us all things.
26) Yahshua said to her: I exist... I am here, I am present... who speaks to you.
27) As this was being spoken, Yahushuas' disciples returned, and were amazed that He talked with the woman: Yet none of them asked: What are you looking for? or, Why are you talking with her?
28) The woman then left her waterpot at the well and went her way into the city; and said to the men of the city,
29) Come with me and see a man who has told me of all the things that I ever did; Isn't this the Anointed One?
30) Then they... the men of the city of Sychar, or, Shechem... went out of the city and came to Him.
31) Meanwhile, His disciples urged Yahshua, saying: Master... Eat!
32) But, He answered them, and said: I have food to eat that you do not know of.
33) Consequently, His disciples said one to another: Has any man brought Him anything to eat?
34) Yahshua said to them: My food... 1033 broma {bro'-mah}... is to do the will of my Father who sent me, and to finish His work.
35) Do you not say: There are four months to go until harvest time? I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white and ready to harvest.
36 And he that reaps this harvest receives reward for his labor, and gathers fruit towards life without end. So that both He that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
37) And in this is the saying true: One sows, and another reaps.
38) I sent you to reap that on which you had put forth no labor: Other men labored, and you are joined in with their labors.
39) And many of the Samaritans of that city believed... placed their confidence... on Him because of the saying of the woman at the well, who testified: He told me all that I ever did!
40) So, when the Samaritans came to Him, they requested of Him that He would remain with them; and he stayed with them for two days.
41) And many more placed their confidence and trust on Him because of His own words;
42) And said to the woman: Now we believe. Not just because of what you told us; but, because we have heard Him for ourselves and know that this is truly the Anointed One, the Savior... soter {so-tare'} -"deliverer" ,or, "preserver"... of the world.
43) Now, after two days, He departed from there and went in to Galilee.
44) Because Yahushua Himself testified that a prophet had no honor in his own country.
45) Then, when He had arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all of the things that He had done in Yerushalem during the feast: for they also had gone to the feast.
46) So Yahushua came again to Cana, a village of Galilee, where He had changed water into wine. And there was a certain man of royalty, whose son was sick in Capernaum... cap-er-nah-oom - "village of comfort"...
47) When he had heard that Yahushua had come out of Iudea to Galilee, he went to Him, and begged Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
48) Then Yahushua said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
49) The nobleman said to Him: Sir, come down, or my child dies.
50) Yahushua said to him: Go your way. Your son lives; and the man believed what Yahushua had spoken to him and went his way.
51) And as he was now going back down to Capernaum, his servants met Him along the road and told him: Your son lives!
52) The he asked the servants at what hour did his son begin to amend... feel better... become well..., and they said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53) So, the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Yahushua had said to him: Your son lives; and he himself believed; and his whole house.
53) This set of circumstances is the other of the two miracles that Yahushua did when He had come out of Iudea and gone to Galilee.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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