John 4

¹Now when Jesus learned 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 for Galilee .

⁴And he had to pass through Samaria .

⁵So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar , near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph .

⁶Jacob’s well was there ; so Jesus , wearied as he was from his journey , was sitting beside the well . It was about the sixth hour .

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

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

⁹The Samaritan woman said to him , How is it that you , a Jew , ask for a drink from me , a woman of Samaria ? ( 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 water with, and the well is deep . Where do you get that living water ?

¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob ? He gave us the well and drank from it himself , as did his sons and his livestock .

¹³Jesus said to her , Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again ,

¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will 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 , so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.

¹⁶Jesus said to her , Go , call your husband , and come here .

¹⁷The woman answered him , 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 you now have is not your husband . What you have said is true .

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

²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain , but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people 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 is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth , for the Father is seeking such people 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 (he 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 back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman , but no one said , What do you seek ? or , Why are you talking with her ?

²⁸So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people ,

²⁹Come , see a man who told me all that I ever did . Can this be the Christ ?

³⁰They went out of the town 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.

³³So the disciples said to one another , Has anyone brought him something to eat ?

³⁴Jesus said to them , My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work .

³⁵Do you not say , There are yet four months, then comes the harvest ? Look , I tell you , lift up your eyes , and see that the fields are white for harvest .

³⁶Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life , so that sower and reaper may rejoice together .

³⁷For here the saying holds true , One sows and another reaps .

³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor . Others have labored , and you have entered into their labor .

³⁹Many Samaritans from that town 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 asked him to stay with them , and he stayed there two days .

⁴¹And many more believed because of his word .

⁴²They said to the woman , It is no longer because of what you said that we believe , for we have heard for ourselves , and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world .

⁴³After the two days he departed for Galilee .

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

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 ill .

⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee , he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son , for he was at the point of death .

⁴⁸So Jesus said to him , Unless you see signs and wonders you will not 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 on his way .

⁵¹As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering .

⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to get better , and they said to him , Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him .

⁵³The father knew that was the hour when 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 .