‏ John 4

1Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?" 13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. The water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." 16Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly." 19The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." 21Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will tell us all things." 26Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

27Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" 28Then the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 29"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30They went out of the city and came to him. 31Meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." 33So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?" 34Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. 35Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and then comes the harvest’?Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are already white for harvest. 36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." 39Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man is indeed the Savior of the world."

43After the two days he departed to Galilee. 44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was sick. 47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe." 49The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 50Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. 52So he inquired of them the hour when his son got better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." 53So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household. 54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.