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譯本是參照 AFV (A Faithful Version) 2009

1. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,
2. (Although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples,)
3. He left Judea and departed again into Galilee.
4. Now it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.
5. And He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6. And Jacob’s fountain was there; Jesus, therefore, being wearied from the journey, sat there by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7. A woman came out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”
8. For His disciples had gone away into the city, so that they might buy provisions.
9. Therefore, the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, to give You water to drink? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.”
10. Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and Who it is that said to you, ‘Give Me some water to drink,’ you would have asked 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; how then do You have the living water?
12. Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it, and his sons, and his cattle?”
13. Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;
14. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; rather, the water that I will give him shall become a fountain of water within him, springing up into everlasting life.”
15. The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst or need to come here to draw water.” (A Faithful Version)

1. 主從法利賽人那裡得知，耶穌收取和施行水禮的門徒，比約翰來得多，

2. （耶穌沒有親自施行水禮，是他的門徒）

3. 他離開猶大地，要回到加利利。

4. 回程希望途經撒馬利亞。

5. 到了撒瑪利亞的一座城，名叫敘加，城是靠近雅各給他兒子約瑟那塊土地。

6. 那裡有一口名為雅各井，耶穌因旅途勞累，坐在井邊，時間是當日第六個小時。

7. 正值有一婦人，從撒瑪利亞這城出來打水。耶穌對她說：能給我水喝嗎？

8. 他的門徒此時進城買食物。

9. 撒瑪利亞婦人直問：你這人怎會這樣？猶太人竟向撒瑪利亞婦人要水喝？你不知猶太人從不接觸撒瑪利亞人嗎。

10. 耶穌回應：如果知道神有一份禮物，正是和你對話，要求水喝那位，你若問他要水喝嗎？他就給你活水。

11. 婦人隨即發問：先生，你沒有打水器具，井又深，哪來活水呢？

12. 你比我們的祖宗雅各還大嗎？他留了一口井給我們，可以給他的子孫和牲畜飲用。

13. 耶穌回應：喝這水的，喝完還會渴。

14. 人喝我所賜的水，就永遠不渴。凡喝我所賜的水，這水要在他裡面成為活泉，在永恆的生命中一直湧流。

15. 婦人非常期待地說：先生，請賜這水給我，就會感到不渴，也就不用這麼遠來打水。

https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/14/greek-orthodox-jacobs-well-palestine/ 是較近代的解說

https://www.christianwebsite.com/what-is-the-sixth-hour-in-the-bible/ 這時間在聖經中引申的意義。

耶穌從加利利到耶路撒冷有三條路徑可以選擇 (在第2章有引述)，選擇不走回頭路也是很平常的事。耶穌走這條路剛好經過撒瑪利亞其中一個稱為敘加的城，似乎是太累要休息，就在井旁坐下，門徒去找食物。

相信是個巧遇，耶穌由水引伸出水的另一層意義：水是用來活人，只是有一種水，也是用來活人，卻不用時時喝，天天喝，年年喝。那是喝一次就夠了。

耶穌當時表達的，不是神的智慧，是人當有的知慧，是從日常的事物中領悟得來。這事件似乎在說明，一般人都會都能從日常事物中，體會信仰內涵中，都能在人的日常生活中，體會當中包許有永恆的價值展示。

這段描述是水。卻暗藏了另一個同等意義的例子，就是食物。食物同樣是活命的，跟水是一致。這是個很好的例子，在傳福音時有更好的效果。又或是醫療和生病都是可以引伸出永恆生命的意義，它不是求永遠生命的存在，也許自己可以問問自己，求的是那一種？

由此可見，約翰對神對以色人的歷史，當中的因緣了解得透徹非常。