Bible of Kralice (CZ - 1613)

1A jakž poznal Pán, že slyšeli farizeové, že by Ježíš více učedlníků činil a křtil než Jan, 2(Ačkoli Ježíš sám nekřtil, ale učedlníci jeho), 3Opustil Judstvo, a odšel opět do Galilee. 4Musil pak jíti skrze Samaří. 5I přišel k městu Samařskému, kteréž slove Sichar, vedlé popluží, kteréž byl dal Jákob Jozefovi, synu svému. 6Byla pak tu studnice Jákobova. Protož ustav na cestě Ježíš, posadil se tak na studnici. A bylo okolo šesté hodiny. 7I přišla žena z Samaří vážiti vody. Kteréž řekl Ježíš: Dej mi píti. 8Nebo učedlníci jeho byli odešli do města, aby nakoupili pokrmů. 9I řekla jemu žena ta Samaritánka: Kterakž ty, jsa Žid, žádáš ode mne nápoje od ženy Samaritánky? (Nebo neobcují Židé s Samaritány.) 10Odpověděl Ježíš a řekl jí: Kdybys znala ten dar Boží, a kdo jest ten, kterýž praví tobě: Dej mi píti, ty bys prosila jeho, a dal by tobě vody živé. 11I dí jemu žena: Pane, aniž máš, čím bys navážil, a studnice jest hluboká. Odkudž tedy máš tu vodu živou? 12Zdaliž jsi ty větší nežli otec náš Jákob, kterýž nám dal tuto studnici, a sám z ní pil, i synové jeho, i dobytek jeho? 13Odpověděl Ježíš a řekl jí: Každý, kdož pije vodu tuto, žízniti bude opět. 14Ale kdož by se napil vody té, kterouž já dám jemu, nežíznil by na věky, ale voda ta, kterouž já dám jemu, bude v něm studnicí vody prýštící se k životu věčnému. 15Řekla jemu žena: Pane, dej mi té vody, abych nežíznila, ani chodila sem vážiti. 16Řekl jí Ježíš: Jdi, zavolej muže svého, a přiď sem. 17Odpověděla žena a řekla: Nemám muže. Dí jí Ježíš: Dobřes řekla: Nemám muže. 18Nebos pět mužů měla, a nyní kteréhož máš, není tvůj muž. To jsi pravdu pověděla. 19Řekla jemu žena: Pane, vidím, že jsi ty prorok. 20Otcové naši na této hoře modlívali se, a vy pravíte, že v Jeruzalémě jest místo, kdež náleží se modliti. 21Dí jí Ježíš: Ženo, věř mi, žeť jde hodina, kdyžto ani na této hoře, ani v Jeruzalémě nebudete se modliti Otci. 22Vy se modlíte, a nevíte, čemu; my se modlíme, čemuž víme, nebo spasení z Židů jest. 23Ale jdeť hodina, a nyníť jest, kdyžto praví modlitebníci modliti se budou Otci v duchu a v pravdě. Neboť takových Otec hledá, aby se modlili jemu.  24Bůh duch jest, a ti, kteříž se jemu modlí, v duchu a v pravdě musejí se modliti. 25Dí jemu žena: Vím, že Mesiáš přijde, kterýž slove Kristus. Ten, když přijde, oznámí nám všecko. 26Dí jí Ježíš: Jáť jsem, kterýž mluvím s tebou. 27A v tom přišli učedlníci jeho, i divili se, že by s ženou mluvil, a však žádný neřekl: Nač se ptáš, aneb proč mluvíš s ní? 28I nechala tu žena vědra svého, a šla do města, a řekla těm lidem: 29Poďte, vizte člověka, kterýž pověděl mi všecko, což jsem koli činila. Není-li on ale Kristus? 30Tedy vyšli z města, a přišli k němu. 31Mezi tím pak prosili ho učedlníci, řkouce: Mistře, pojez. 32A on řekl jim: Jáť mám pokrm jísti, kteréhož vy nevíte. 33Učedlníci pak mluvili vespolek: Zdali jemu kdo přinesl jísti? 34Dí jim Ježíš: Můjť pokrm jest, abych činil vůli toho, kterýž mne poslal, a dokonal dílo jeho. 35Však vy pravíte, že ještě čtyři měsícové jsou, a žeň přijde. Aj, pravím vám: Pozdvihněte očí svých, a patřte na krajiny, žeť se již bělejí ke žni. 36Kdož pak žne, odplatuť béře, a shromažďuje užitek k životu věčnému, aby i ten, kdož rozsívá, radoval se spolu, i kdo žne. 37Nebo v tom pravé jest slovo, žeť jiný jest, kdož rozsívá, a jiný, kterýž žne. 38Jáť jsem vás poslal žíti, o čemž jste vy nepracovali. Jiníť pracovali, a vy jste v jejich práce vešli. 39Z města pak toho mnozí z Samaritánů uvěřili v něho, pro řeč té ženy, svědčící: Že mi pověděl všecko, což jsem činila. 40A když k němu přišli Samaritáni, prosili ho, aby s nimi zůstal. I pobyl tu za dva dni. 41A mnohem jich více uvěřilo pro řeč jeho. 42A ženě té řekli: Již ne pro tvé vypravování věříme; nebo sami jsme slyšeli, a víme, že tento jest právě spasitel světa, Kristus. 43Po dvou pak dnech vyšel odtud, a šel do Galilee. 44Nebo sám Ježíš byl svědectví vydal, že prorok v vlasti své v poctivosti není. 45A když přišel do Galilee, přijali jej Galilejští, všecko viděvše, co činil v Jeruzalémě v svátek; nebo i oni byli přišli k svátku. 46Tedy opět přišel Ježíš do Kány Galilejské, kdež učinil byl z vody víno. I byl jeden královský služebník v Kafarnaum, jehožto syn nemocen byl. 47Ten uslyšev, že by Ježíš přišel z Judstva do Galilee, šel k němu, a prosil ho, aby sstoupil a uzdravil syna jeho; nebo počínal umírati. 48I řekl jemu Ježíš: Neuzříte-li divů a zázraků, neuvěříte. 49Dí jemu ten královský služebník: Pane, podiž prvé, nežli umře syn můj. 50Dí jemu Ježíš: Jdi, syn tvůj živ jest. I uvěřil člověk řeči, kterouž mluvil jemu Ježíš, a šel. 51Když pak on již šel, potkali se s ním služebníci jeho a zvěstovali, řkouce: Syn tvůj živ jest. 52Tedy otázal se jich na hodinu, v kterou by se lépe měl. I řekli jemu: Včera v hodinu sedmou přestala mu zimnice. 53Tedy poznal otec, že právě ta hodina byla, v kterouž řekl byl jemu Ježíš: Syn tvůj živ jest. I uvěřil on i dům jeho všecken. 54To opět druhý div učinil Ježíš, přišed z Judstva do Galilee.


Matthew Henry - Concise Commentary
 1   Jesus applied himself more to preaching, which was the more excellent, 1Cor 1:17, than to baptism. He would put honour upon his disciples, by employing them to baptize. He teaches us that the benefit of sacraments depends not on the hand that administers them.

 4   There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places of temptation but when we needs must; and then must not dwell in them, but hasten through them. We have here our Lord Jesus under the common fatigue of travellers. Thus we see that he was truly a man. Toil came in with sin; therefore Christ, having made himself a curse for us, submitted to it. Also, he was a poor man, and went all his journeys on foot. Being wearied, he sat thus on the well; he had no couch to rest upon. He sat thus, as people wearied with travelling sit. Surely, we ought readily to submit to be like the Son of God in such things as these. Christ asked a woman for water. She was surprised because he did not show the anger of his own nation against the Samaritans. Moderate men of all sides are men wondered at. Christ took the occasion to teach her Divine things: he converted this woman, by showing her ignorance and sinfulness, and her need of a Saviour. By this living water is meant the Spirit. Under this comparison the blessing of the Messiah had been promised in the Old Testament. The graces of the Spirit, and his comforts, satisfy the thirsting soul, that knows its own nature and necessity. What Jesus spake figuratively, she took literally. Christ shows that the water of Jacob's well yielded a very short satisfaction. Of whatever waters of comfort we drink, we shall thirst again. But whoever partakes of the Spirit of grace, and the comforts of the gospel, shall never want that which will abundantly satisfy his soul. Carnal hearts look no higher than carnal ends. Give it me, saith she, not that I may have everlasting life, which Christ proposed, but that I come not hither to draw. The carnal mind is very ingenious in shifting off convictions, and keeping them from fastening. But how closely our Lord Jesus brings home the conviction to her conscience! He severely reproved her present state of life. The woman acknowledged Christ to be a prophet. The power of his word in searching the heart, and convincing the conscience of secret things, is a proof of Divine authority. It should cool our contests, to think that the things we are striving about are passing away. The object of worship will continue still the same, God, as a Father; but an end shall be put to all differences about the place of worship. Reason teaches us to consult decency and convenience in the places of our worship; but religion gives no preference to one place above another, in respect of holiness and approval with God. The Jews were certainly in the right. Those who by the Scriptures have obtained some knowledge of God, know whom they worship. The word of salvation was of the Jews. It came to other nations through them. Christ justly preferred the Jewish worship before the Samaritan, yet here he speaks of the former as soon to be done away. God was about to be revealed as the Father of all believers in every nation. The spirit or the soul of man, as influenced by the Holy Spirit, must worship God, and have communion with him. Spiritual affections, as shown in fervent prayers, supplications, and thanksgivings, form the worship of an upright heart, in which God delights and is glorified. The woman was disposed to leave the matter undecided, till the coming of the Messiah. But Christ told her, I that speak to thee, am He. She was an alien and a hostile Samaritan, merely speaking to her was thought to disgrace our Lord Jesus. Yet to this woman did our Lord reveal himself more fully than as yet he had done to any of his disciples. No past sins can bar our acceptance with him, if we humble ourselves before him, believing in him as the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

 27   The disciples wondered that Christ talked thus with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason, and for some good end. Thus when particular difficulties occur in the word and providence of God, it is good to satisfy ourselves that all is well that Jesus Christ says and does. Two things affected the woman. The extent of his knowledge. Christ knows all the thoughts, words, and actions, of all the children of men. And the power of his word. He told her secret sins with power. She fastened upon that part of Christ's discourse, many would think she would have been most shy of repeating; but the knowledge of Christ, into which we are led by conviction of sin, is most likely to be sound and saving. They came to him: those who would know Christ, must meet him where he records his name. Our Master has left us an example, that we may learn to do the will of God as he did; with diligence, as those that make a business of it; with delight and pleasure in it. Christ compares his work to harvest-work. The harvest is appointed and looked for before it comes; so was the gospel. Harvest-time is busy time; all must be then at work. Harvest-time is a short time, and harvest-work must be done then, or not at all; so the time of the gospel is a season, which if once past, cannot be recalled. God sometimes uses very weak and unlikely instruments for beginning and carrying on a good work. Our Saviour, by teaching one poor woman, spread knowledge to a whole town. Blessed are those who are not offended at Christ. Those taught of God, are truly desirous to learn more. It adds much to the praise of our love to Christ and his word, if it conquers prejudices. Their faith grew. In the matter of it: they believed him to be the Saviour, not only of the Jews but of the world. In the certainty of it: we know that this is indeed the Christ. And in the ground of it, for we have heard him ourselves.

 43   The father was a nobleman, yet the son was sick. Honours and titles are no security from sickness and death. The greatest men must go themselves to God, must become beggars. The nobleman did not stop from his request till he prevailed. But at first he discovered the weakness of his faith in the power of Christ. It is hard to persuade ourselves that distance of time and place, are no hinderance to the knowledge, mercy, and power of our Lord Jesus. Christ gave an answer of peace. Christ's saying that the soul lives, makes it alive. The father went his way, which showed the sincerity of his faith. Being satisfied, he did not hurry home that night, but returned as one easy in his own mind. His servants met him with the news of the child's recovery. Good news will meet those that hope in God's word. Diligent comparing the works of Jesus with his word, will confirm our faith. And the bringing the cure to the family brought salvation to it. Thus an experience of the power of one word of Christ, may settle the authority of Christ in the soul. The whole family believed likewise. The miracle made Jesus dear to them. The knowledge of Christ still spreads through families, and men find health and salvation to their souls.