John 4

¹When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,

²although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples —

³he left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

⁴Now he had to pass through Samaria.

⁵So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, 'Give me a drink.'

⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, 'How is it that you, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?' (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, 'If you had known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Give me to drink," you yourself would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.'

¹¹The woman says to him, 'Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep; from where, then, do you have this living water?'

¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank from it, and his sons, and his livestock?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, 'Everyone who keeps drinking of this water will thirst again.'

¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will certainly never thirst into the age; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water leaping up into eternal life.'

¹⁵The woman says to him, 'Sir, give me this water, so that I may not thirst, nor keep coming here to draw.'

¹⁶Jesus says to her, 'Go, call your husband, and come back here.'

¹⁷The woman answered and said to him, 'I have no husband.' Jesus says to her, 'Well have you said, "I have no husband";'

¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband; this you have said truly.'

¹⁹The woman says to him, 'Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.'

²⁰'Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.'

²¹Jesus says to her, 'Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.'

²²You people worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But an hour is coming — and now is here — when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for indeed the Father seeks such people as his worshipers.

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.'

²⁵The woman says to him, 'I know that Messiah is coming (the one called Christ); when that one comes, he will proclaim to us all things.'

²⁶Jesus says to her, 'I am he — the one speaking to you.'

²⁷And at this his disciples came back and were marveling that he was speaking with a woman. No one, however, said, 'What do you seek?' or 'Why are you speaking with her?'

²⁸The woman then left her water jar and went away into the city and says to the people,

²⁹'Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?'

³⁰They therefore went out of the city and were coming to him.

³¹Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat.'

³²But he said to them, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.'

³³The disciples therefore were saying to one another, 'Surely no one brought him something to eat, did they?'

³⁴Jesus says to them, 'My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.'

³⁵Do you not say, 'There are still four months, and then the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, because they are already white for harvest.

³⁶And the one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

³⁸I sent you to reap what you have not labored for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.'

³⁹Now many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman testifying, 'He told me everything I ever did.'

⁴⁰When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to remain with them. And he remained there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed because of his word,

⁴²and they were saying to the woman, 'We no longer believe because of your report; for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.'

⁴³After the two days he went out from there and departed into Galilee.

⁴⁴(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

⁴⁵When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they themselves had also gone to the feast.

⁴⁶Jesus therefore came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

⁴⁷This man, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, went to him and was asking him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him, 'Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will certainly not believe.'

⁴⁹The royal official says to him, 'Sir, come down before my child dies.'

⁵⁰Jesus says to him, 'Go; your son lives.' The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went on his way.

⁵¹And already as he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying that his boy lives.

⁵²He therefore inquired of them the hour at which he began to recover. So they said to him, 'Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.'

⁵³The father therefore knew that it was in that very hour in which Jesus had said to him, 'Your son lives.' And he himself believed, and his whole household.

⁵⁴This again was a second sign Jesus did when he came out of Judea into Galilee.