John 4:30

THE MESSAGE

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

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 his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn't believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it. ²⁸The woman took the hint and left. In her confusion she left her water pot. Back in the village she told the people, "Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. Do you think this could be the Messiah?" And they went out to see for themselves. ³¹ In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, "Rabbi, eat. Aren't you going to eat?" ³² He told them, "I have food to eat you know nothing about." ³³ The disciples were puzzled. "Who could have brought him food?" ³⁴Jesus said, "The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It's harvest time! ³⁶"The Harvester isn't waiting. He's taking his pay, gathering in this grain that's ripe for eternal life. Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant. That's the truth of the saying, ‘This one sows, that one harvests.' I sent you to harvest a field you never worked. Without lifting a finger, you have walked in on a field worked long and hard by others." ³⁹Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman's witness: "He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!" They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days. A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say. They said to the woman, "We're no longer taking this on your say-so. We've heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He's the Savior of the world!"

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.