John 4

¹Therefore when Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John—

²although indeed Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples—

³He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

⁴And it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.

⁵Therefore He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶And Jacob’s well was there. Therefore Jesus, wearied from the journey, was thus sitting at the well. The hour was about the sixth.

⁷A woman out of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give to Me to drink.”

⁸For His disciples had gone away into the city, that they might buy food.

⁹Therefore the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is saying to you, ‘Give to Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water.”

¹¹The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where, then, do You have the living water?

¹²Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;

¹⁴but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, he will never thirst, to the age. Rather, the water that I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I might not thirst nor come here to draw.”

¹⁶He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

¹⁷The woman answered and said to Him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “You have spoken correctly, ‘I do not have a husband.’

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

¹⁹The woman says to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to 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 worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is of the Jews.

²³But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father also seeks such who worship Him.

²⁴God is Spirit, and it is necessary for those worshiping Him to worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will declare to us all things.”

²⁶Jesus says to her, “I am He—the One speaking to you.”

²⁷And upon this His disciples came and marveled that He was speaking with a woman. No one, however, said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

²⁸Then the woman left her water jar and went away into the city, and she says to the men,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me all things, as many as I did. Could this be the Christ?”

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

³¹In the meantime the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know.”

³³Therefore the disciples were saying to one another, “Did anyone bring Him something to eat?”

³⁴Jesus says to them, “My food is that I should do the will of the One having sent Me and should finish His work.

³⁵Do you not say, ‘It is yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, because they are white to harvest already.

³⁶The one reaping receives a wage and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the word is true, that is, ‘One is sowing and another is reaping.’

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

³⁹And out of that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman testifying, “He told me all things that I did.”

⁴⁰Therefore when the Samaritans came to Him, 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, “No longer because of your speech do we believe; for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

⁴³And after the two days He went out from there into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet in his own hometown does not have honor.

⁴⁵Therefore when He came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all things that He did in Jerusalem during the feast, for they themselves also went to the feast.

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

⁴⁷This one, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea into Galilee, went to Him and was asking that He might come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁸Therefore Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never 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 said to him, and he was going.

⁵¹And already, in his going down, his servants met him, saying that his boy lives.

⁵²Therefore he inquired from them the hour in which he got better. Therefore they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³Therefore the father knew that it was in that hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.

⁵⁴Now this again was the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.