John 4

1Therefore, when 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 were—

3he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

4He had to pass through Samaria.

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

6Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, wearied from the journey, was sitting there by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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

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

9So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate 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 living water.”

11The woman said to him, “Lord, you have neither a bucket nor is the well deep. So where do you get the living water?”

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

13Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again.”

14But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never thirst forever; rather, 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, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or come here to draw.”

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

17The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have spoken well: ‘I do not have a husband.’”

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

19The woman said to him, “Lord, I see that you are a prophet.”

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

21Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, 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 from the Jews.

23But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father indeed seeks 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” (the one called Messiah). “When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

26Jesus said to her, “I am, the one speaking to you.”

27And at this point his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?”

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

29Come, see a man who told me everything I have done. Could this be the Messiah?

30They 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.”

33So the disciples were saying 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 complete his work.”

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

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

37For in this the saying is true: one is the one sowing, and another the one reaping.

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

39And many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the word of the woman who was testifying, “He told me everything I 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,

42And they were saying to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one truly is the Savior of the world.”

43After the two days, he departed from there for Galilee.

44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

45So when he came into 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 of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will certainly not believe.”

49The royal official said to him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.”

50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

51And while he was already going down, his servants met him, saying that his child was alive.

52So he asked them the hour in which he got better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

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

54This again was the second sign Jesus did after coming from Judea into Galilee.