1 And Jesus continued to travel and preach for the spiritual renewal of Israel; and when he was preaching in Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man that he may heal him.
2 And he spit on his finger and rubbed the eyes of the blind man, and asked him if he saw ought,
3 And he looked up and said, I see men as trees walking.
4 After that he put his fingers again upon his eyes, and made him look up; and by God’s healing power he was restored and saw every man clearly.1
5 And one day Jesus was traveling and he came to a well.2
6 And being wearied with his journey, sat on the well; and it was about the sixth hour.
7 Then there cometh a woman to draw water: Jesus saith to her, thou hast six pitchers of water at home, how many more thou needest?
8 The woman was amazed that Jesus knew what she had in her house and saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
9 Jesus saith unto her, Today for thy first meal, thou ate butter and honey after a long time, but to what Jacob and the prophets and I call my people is better sustenance than this water and butter and honey.
10 And it can give thee what the two husbands thou have hadst could not give thee.
11 The woman was therefore amazed all the more that Jesus also knew her past. She saith unto him, Sir, what is it that Jacob and the other prophets and thou call us to and is better than this water and the butter and honey I ate today and the two husbands I have had?
12 Jesus answering unto her saith, Worship ye the One True God who created me and you and who provides us with our daily sustenance,
13 Worship ye Him in spirit and in truth,3 and besides Him worship none, for it can neither profit nor harm.
14 And upon this came some of his disciples (who had gone away to the city to buy meat), and the woman then left, and went her way to the city.
15 And she saith to the people, Come, see a man who told me all things that I ever did.4
16 Then they went out of the city and came unto him, and Jesus preached them what he had preached to the woman, and they were amazed at his doctrine, but some said, Have we not heard this before?
17 Jesus answered and said, Ye have heard it but not received it. For, else why take ye the traditions of the elders like unto the commandments of God? And why make ye the scribes your lords besides God?5
18 And again they heard but did not understand, and they began to ask him, Tell us how many pitchers of water we have at home? What did we eat today?
19 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet can do nothing without God’s leave, and he can see nothing which he is not shown.
20 And I do no miracle but as a sign to those who will believe and fear the coming day of the Lord.
21 And he went his way with his disciples and some of those who heard him believed on him at that very hour.
The Qur’anic text
The passages of the Qur’an that this chapter follows. All the passages are gathered on The Qur’an on Jesus.
Distorting the Scripture
3:78 There are some among them who distort the Book with their tongues to make you think this ˹distortion˺ is from the Book—but it is not what the Book says. They say, “It is from God”—but it is not from God. And ˹so˺ they attribute lies to God knowingly.
Prophets Never Claim Divinity
3:79 It is not appropriate for someone who God has blessed with the Scripture, wisdom, and prophethood to say to people, “Worship me instead of God.” Rather, he would say, “Be devoted to the worship of your Lord ˹alone˺”—in accordance with what these prophets read in the Scripture and what they taught.
3:80 And he would never ask you to take angels and prophets as lords. Would he ask you to disbelieve after you have submitted?
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