John 4:30

Easy-to-Read Version

So the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They left the town and made their way to him.

King James Version (1611)
Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto him.

King James Version
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

English Standard Version
They went out of the town and were coming to him.

New American Standard Bible
They left the city and were coming to Him.

New Century Version
So the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

Amplified Bible
So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

Berean Standard Bible
So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.

Complete Jewish Bible
They left the town and began coming toward him.

Darby Translation
They went out of the city and came to him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto him.

George Lamsa Translation
And the men went out of the city, and came to him.

Good News Translation
So they left the town and went to Jesus.

Lexham English Bible
They went out from the town and were coming to him.

Literal Translation
Therefore, they went out of the city and came to Him.

American Standard Version
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Bible in Basic English
So they went out of the town and came to him.

Hebrew Names Version
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

International Standard Version
The peopleThey">[fn] left the town and started on their way to him.

Etheridge Translation
And the men went out of the city, and came with her.

Murdock Translation
And the people went out of the city, and came to him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto hym.

English Revised Version
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

World English Bible
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

Weymouth's New Testament
They left the town and set out to go to Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei wenten out of the citee, and camen to hym.

Update Bible Version
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

New English Translation
So they left the town and began coming to him.

New King James Version
Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

New Living Translation
So the people came streaming from the village to see him.

New Life Bible
They went out of town and came to Him.

New Revised Standard
They left the city and were on their way to him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They came forth out of the city, and were coming unto him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

Revised Standard Version
They went out of the city and were coming to him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then they went ont of the cite and came vnto him.

Young's Literal Translation
They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then wente they out of the cite, and came vnto him:

Mace New Testament (1729)
so they went out of the city, and came to him.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They all looked his way and started heading toward the well.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ Just then Jesus' followers came back from town. They were surprised because they saw Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" ²⁸ Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told the people there, ²⁹ "A man told me everything I have ever done. Come see him. Maybe he is the Messiah." ³⁰ So the people left the town and went to see Jesus. ³¹ While the woman was in town, Jesus' followers were begging him, "Teacher, eat something!" ³² But Jesus answered, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." ³³ So the followers asked themselves, "Did someone already bring him some food?" ³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do. ³⁵ When you plant, you always say, ‘Four more months to wait before we gather the grain.' But I tell you, open your eyes, and look at the fields. They are ready for harvesting now. ³⁶ Even now, the people who harvest the crop are being paid. They are gathering crops for eternal life. So now the people who plant can be happy together with those who harvest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 60:8, Matthew 2:1-3, Matthew 8:11, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 11:20-24, Matthew 12:40-42, Matthew 20:16, Luke 17:16-18, Acts 8:5-8, Acts 10:33, Acts 13:42, Acts 28:28, Romans 5:20

Reciprocal: Mark 8:2 - and have John 4:35 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they went out of the city,.... "The men", as the Syriac version expresses it; the inhabitants of Sychar left their business, and came out of the city:

and came unto him; to Christ, to see him, and converse with him, that they might know who he was: for though the woman had been a woman of ill fame, yet such was the account that she gave of Christ, and such power went along with her words, that what with the strangeness of the relation, and the curiosity with which they were led, and chiefly through the efficacy of divine grace, at least in many of them, they were moved to regard what she said, and to follow her directions and solicitations.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They went out of the city - The men of the city left it and went to Jesus, to hear and examine for themselves.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. They went out of the city — Such effect had the simple testimony of the woman on their minds.

And came unto him. — Or, Were coming to him; for they did not reach him immediately; all that discourse between him and his disciples, mentioned John 4:31-39, inclusive, having taken place before the people of Sychar got to the well. See John 4:40.