Жақынның су сорғысы және Исаның Самариялық әйелмен әңгімесі

John 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The major part of this chapter (verses 1 42) recalls Jesus' interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well in Sychar. In verses 43 54, he returns to Galilee, where he heals a royal official's son.

While Jesus is waiting for his disciples to return, a Samaritan woman comes to the well and Jesus asks her for a drink. The obvious object of the request is for physical refreshment after the journey, The woman is surprised that Jesus asks her for a drink and the narrator comments that Samaritans and Jews do not associate. Jesus responds that if she really knew who he was, she would have asked and he would have given her "living water". "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman asks for this "water" and Jesus tells her to go and find her husband and bring him back. The woman states she has no husband, and Jesus says that in fact she has had five husbands and is now living with a man who is not her husband. She then perceives that he is a prophet and raises the question of worship. Jesus then teaches her about worshipping God, how it has been done in the past, at certain locations, and how it will be done properly in the future. "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth." The woman then says that the messiah will come and explain all. Jesus declares that he is the messiah: "I who speak to you am He”
The editors of the Jerusalem Bible link her five husbands with the five groups of settlers who were brought into Samaria by Shalmaneser V, the king of Assyria who occupied Samaria according to the narrative in 2 Kings 17: they came from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and replaced the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel who were taken into exile. Several commentators have noted the openness of Jesus' self revelation to the Samaritan woman, in contrast to his more reserved communication with the Jews: to the Jews "the Messiah was a conquering king, who would help them to ride on the necks of their enemies, and pay back their persecutions and oppressions" and therefore Jesus' claim to be the Messiah necessarily risked a political interpretation: in John 6:15 (NKJV) "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone". But "to this Samaritan woman speaking, I suppose, the conceptions of her race the Messiah was One who was to "tell us all things" about the worship of God.

Jesus' disciples return to meet him at the well, and the woman sets off in haste to the town, leaving her waterpot behind. She tells people that Jesus knew all about her, and wonders if he is the Messiah. The people decide to go and see for themselves. The disciples, meanwhile, try to give Jesus some food but he refuses, saying that his food " is to do the will of HIM who sent me and to finish his work"
Jesus comments on two sayings which would have been well known to his hearers: "There are still four months and then comes the harvest" and "One sows and another reaps" Many of the Samaritan people from town come and Jesus talks with them and they persuade him to stay for two days, teaching them. His words convince them that he is "the Messiah, the Savior of the world". Lutheran theologian Hermann Olshausen described this incident as "further remarkable, as a rare instance of the Lord's ministry producing an awakening on a large scale". The writer of the Acts of the Apostles noted that the commission given by Jesus to the apostles included preaching the gospel in Samaria (Acts 1:8) and Philip the Evangelist is seen preaching the Christ (or Messiah) in that region The narrative in Acts continues, saying that "when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit" .

After the two days, when Jesus stays in Sychar "in compliance with [the Samaritans'] invitation", he then travels back to Galilee, resuming the journey commenced in verse 3. There the people "welcome" or "receive" him with "open arms". John 4:46 (NKJV) notes that many Galileans had also recently been to Jerusalem for the Passover and had seen the signs which Jesus performed there.

In Galilee, Jesus returns to Cana, where a certain nobleman or royal official (, tis basilikos) from Capernaum, away, asks him to heal his sick son. The King James Version describes the man as a "nobleman"; the Geneva Bible has "a certain ruler" and refers to Herod's court; the New Century Version has "one of the king's important officers"; and the Aramaic Bible in Plain English has "a servant of a certain King". Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, rejects the term "nobleman" as "inaccurate the word has nothing to do with birth". Chuza, King Herod's steward (whose wife was Joanna, one of Jesus' disciples mentioned in and ) and Manaen (a teacher and prophet in Antioch, mentioned in Acts 13:1, who had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch) have both been identified as possibly being referred to in this section.

Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe". Jesus seems annoyed because people only seem to believe in him if he performs miracles (, sēmeia kai terata, "signs and wonders"). Plummer notes the contrast with "the ready belief of the Samaritans". "Down", because Capernaum was located "down on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee".