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John 4:39–40

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The Samaritans Respond

4:39Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,87 “He told me everything I ever did.” 4:40So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking88 him to stay with them.89 He stayed there two days,

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Footnotes

  1. 87 Grk “when she testified.”
  2. 88 Following the arrival of the Samaritans, the imperfect verb has been translated as ingressive.
  3. 89 Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the sequencing with the following verse, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

NLTNew Living Translation

Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!” When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

KJV 1900King James Version

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.