John 4
Jesus Goes to Galilee
4Therefore when aJesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and bbaptizing more disciples than John 2(although aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His bdisciples were), 3He left aJudea and went away bagain into Galilee. 4And He had to pass through aSamaria. 5So He *came to a city of aSamaria called Sychar, near bthe field that cJacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about 1the sixth hour.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
7A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His adisciples had gone away into bthe city to buy food. 9Therefore the aSamaritan woman *said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you aliving water.” 11She *said to Him, “1Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that aliving water? 12“Are You greater than our father Jacob, who agave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him awill never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to beternal life.”
15The woman *said to Him, “1Sir, agive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” 16He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” 17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19The woman *said to Him, “1Sir, I see that You are aa prophet. 20“aOur fathers worshiped on bthis mountain, and you people say that cin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, aan hour is coming when bneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22“aYou worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for bsalvation is from the Jews. 23“But aan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father bin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24“God is 1spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ain spirit and truth.” 25The woman *said to Him, “I know that aMessiah is coming (bHe who is called 1Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26Jesus *said to her, “aI who speak to you am He.”
27And at this point His adisciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” 28So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, 29“Come, see a man awho told me all the things that I have done; bis this not the 1Christ?” 30They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “aRabbi, eat.” 32But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the adisciples were saying to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” 34Jesus *said to them, “My food is to ado the will of Him who sent Me and to bfinish His work. 35“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white afor harvest. 36“Even now he who reaps is receiving awages and is gathering bfruit for clife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37“For in this case the saying is true, ‘aOne sows and another reaps.’ 38“I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39From athat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “bHe told me all the things that I have done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of His word; 42and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly athe Savior of the world.”
43And after athe two days He went from there into Galilee. 44For Jesus Himself bore witness that aa prophet has no honor in his own country. 45So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ahaving seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.
Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son
46Then He came again to aCana of Galilee bwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at cCapernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus had come aout of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. 48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see 1,asigns and bwonders, you will never believe.” 49The royal official *said to Him, “1Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50Jesus *said to him, “aGo; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51And while he was still going down, his slaves met him, saying that his 1son was alive. 52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the 1seventh hour the fever left him.” 53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and ahis whole household. 54This is again a asecond 1sign that Jesus did when He had bcome out of Judea into Galilee.